Flipper – the best darn Android development tool you’ve never heard of

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Flipper is an Electron desktop app that connects to Android devices and emulators and shows concrete debugging artifacts: a crash reporter that opens to the exact Java NullPointerException stack frame, a network mocking UI that copies a 200 JSON response, edits it to add a missing title and then returns a mocked response (including switching a 200 to a 500), and a layout plugin that edits view text live. Custom plugins use TypeScript on the desktop and Kotlin on-device over a websocket.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:44Writing is editing
3. 1:03Programming is debugging
4. 1:32Every bug is a puzzle
5. 4:12Using Flipper
6. 7:55Network Calls
7. 15:47Flipper Overview
8. 20:58Custom Plugins
9. 21:52Accessibility Helper
10. 30:13Other plugins
11. 31:31Outro

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