Show HN: I wrote a script to bring Chrome DevTools to Android

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10 points·leohonexus··5 comments

Hey HN, I wrote a script to bring DevTools (based on eruda) to Android Chrome. It works on any website, and you can access it by shaking your phone. It uses a local VPN tunnel to dynamically inject the script into a page. Installation is simple, takes around 10 minutes.

Some features include:

- Execute JavaScript on page

- Select an element on the page to view its properties

- Inspect incoming and outgoing network requests

Feel free to check out the demo!

This is really cool, nice work! What are the benefits of using this over the Chrome remote debugging feature? https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/remote-debugging/

You can take this on the go! I had this idea because I was using a QR code restaurant ordering system the other day and wanted to see the API requests made - which wouldn't be possible to do without a laptop and a cable.

By the way, I never got it why do Android version of the apps (e.g. Chrome) have to be so crippled (e.g. no extensions, no dev tools) and why is the actual Annroid OS not really meant for desktop/laptop computers. IMHO Android could make an excellent general-purpose OS if just some aspects (in the apps mostly) improved.

This is great! Also, I love the fact you have a video demo showing exactly how it works. Too many Github projects are sparse with details

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