stetho

You can. Facebook has started the Stetho project, which essentially is a protocol adaptor for Android. https://github.com/facebook/stetho

Currently our recommendation is to use an if (DEBUG) block around your initialization and then use proguard to remove the dead code in release. We are working on a better solution which allows you to use build flavors in gradle. The proguard solution is how Facebook apps strip it out today, however. That said, it is safe to ship the stetho engine in your release apps and it adds virtually no runtime overhead to initialize due to our deferred init design. For instance, Chrome for Android ships with the same system we have and it is always enabled even for release builds. See https://github.com/facebook/stetho/issues/16 to track our progress addressing this issue.

agreed, it looks like there is this open ticket: https://github.com/facebook/stetho/issues/14 Would be really dope if they got that integrated into the elements tab.

It uses the same mechanism that Chrome dev tools remote debugging uses which is a local websocket server accessed over adb. [1][2] [1]https://github.com/facebook/stetho/blob/master/stetho/src/ma... [2]https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/remote-debugging

This looks really neat! As the post suggests, we also have been doing a lot of janky Log calls to debug our app's network code. I am really impressed by a lot of the Facebook open source releases. Each new one makes me even sadder that you can't use them due to the crazy patent license they've started using: https://github.com/facebook/stetho/blob/master/PATENTS "The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, for anyone that makes any claim (including by filing any lawsuit, assertion or other action) alleging [...] that any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable."