Thanks. :) The Monitor tool in Android SDK doesn't allow installing plugins. Probably there would be a workaround to copy this plugin and dependent plugins to the monitor tools' plugin directory. I'll give it a try and post instructions. :)
I'll be sharing the code in github soon. I need to cleanup a lot of it, and should be done this weekend. - Sriram. On Jul 31, 2013, at 12:30 PM, Jim Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Very cool! I could have used this for some bugs I worked on :) > > Do you think it's possible to integrate this into the monitor tool in > the Android SDK? (The monitor tool is based on Eclipse and shares common > components with ADT) This would be good for those of us that don't have > Eclipse/ADT. > > Also, have you thought about putting everything on, for examaple, > Github? That way you can put all the code, jars, docs, etc. in one place. > > Cheers, > Jim > > > On 7/30/13 3:08 PM, Sriram Ramasubramanian wrote: >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mobile-firefox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >> _______________________________________________ mobile-firefox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
