Hi Firefox-Devs, I've been working on an Eclipse Plugin for Android development and …
Thanks, Sriram. Begin forwarded message: > From: Sriram Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> > Subject: Eclipse Plugin > Date: July 30, 2013 11:46:29 AM PDT > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > Namaste front-end-ers, > > I've been working on an Eclipse Plugin for Android development. With the > standard set of tools, it's really hard to find what all views are currently > visible in an application. The hierarchy viewer shows the tree view that none > can understand, and the UI automator viewer shows a screenshot of the device > with the bounds mapped over it. How can one find what a view draws? We've > seen problems with ImageView drawing a background and an image on top of it. > To mitigate such problems, my plugin, tentatively named as Droid Inspector > (though the name varies a lot inside the plugin now :P ), helps visualize > each view separately in 3D (glass-free), and find problems. It captures the > background and content for each view as separate layers, so they can be > shown/hidden separately. > > What does it look like? > http://cl.ly/image/273d0l3H212B is how it looks. A 3D view, a hierarchy tree > and a box model (thanks Faaborg). > > How do I get it? > This is still in development and tentatively parked at: > http://sriramramani.com/downloads/Droid%20Inspector/ > You can install this by Help > Install New Software… in Eclipse. (Remove %20 > in eclipse). > > I am facing issues. How do I..? > 1. Please install LWJGL from http://jevopi.de/updatesite/org.lwjgl.updatesite > This is a pre-requisite as this gives the 3D view. (I couldn't find a better > update site for it :( ). > 2. Please update your eclipse/ADT. There would be dependency clashes from > ADT. Resolving is a pain, but I hope you can get through it ;) > 3. Now try installing this plugin. It should go smooth. > > I think I've installed. How can I be sure? > After re-starting, open DDMS perspective. In the Device view, there should be > a "Copy" icon. (Ya! I'm still working on icons. :( ). That's my plugin! > > "So you are telling me that I spent so much time to install your plugin to > get this small copy icon here??" > Umm… ya! But no. This works on the same way as HierarchyViewer. After a > couple of settings tweak, we are good to go. > Go to Eclipse > Preferences > Android > DDMS and enable "Use ADBHOST". > Now the eclipse plugin side is all fine. To use this plugin with any > application, the application needs to add a library and 3 lines of code. The > library can be found at: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3017599/Droid%20Inspector/droidinspector.jar > > But I'm not going to put you through the series of adding this library to > Fennec and trying the plugin. I made that for you: http://cl.ly/381d3E3x1Y2x > > After installing Fennec sriramramasub… please go back to DDMS. It should show > the Fennec. Select it and click on my plugin. It should collect all info, and > open the file. If this all works you could see something like in the > screenshot :D > > Operations: > Click-and-drag to rotate the 3D view. > Mouse scroll (mac-swipe) to zoom-in and zoom-out. > Shift + Click-and-drag to move entire model. > > Alright, so what do you want now? > :D :D How does it feel? Is it working fine? Worth the pain of installing the > plugin? What features do you want more? > > Known issues: > 1. Background check box doesn't work. > 2. Selecting a view in 3D window doesn't work -- I'm refreshing my 8th grade > math on planes and normal vectors for this. > > Extras: > 1. To use it with other application, add the droidinspector.jar to your class > path and add this code: http://www.pastebin.mozilla.org/2746064 > Currently only the first registered application shows up. So, please run only > one application to monitor. I'll fix it this weekend. > 2. I'll post this to mobile-firefox-dev once Android UI team can install it > easily :D > > That's all folks! > > Oh! As Gary says, "DO NOT TWEET" :D :D > > Thanks, > Sriram. > _______________________________________________ > mobile-frontend mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-frontend
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