android-layout-inspector

Project Url: Grigory-Rylov/android-layout-inspector

Introduction: Yet another android layout inspector

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More stable Android Layout inspector than Android Studio Layout Inspector. Allows you to switch between displaying dimensions in PX and DP (only for new layout captures, not for opened files)

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Download

Find YALI in AS plugins repository.

Download latest release
Preferences -> Plugins -> Install plugin from Disk...
Select android-layout-inspector-plugin-{VERSION}.jar

Getting started

Menu Tools -> Launch YALI

Why Yet another android layout inspector?

Because AS layout inspector sometimes cannot download layouts for some reasons. Also you can switch to DP dimension mode.

Jetpack Compose

In the New Layout dialog select jetpack compose (beta). Along with the regular view hierarchy YALI downloads the real Compose tree from the running app (same App Inspection service Android Studio uses) and grafts it under the ComposeView nodes:

composable names, source file and line of every call;
exact pixel bounds (the same PX/DP modes, distance measures and search work on compose nodes);
the rendered text of every Text composable (tree label + compose:text property);

Requirements: the app is debuggable (debug build, without code shrinking), runs on the connected device, and uses Compose UI 1.2.1+. If the running process is invisible to App Inspection, YALI resets the on-device inspector daemon (/data/local/tmp/perfd cache, transportd) and restarts the app automatically, the same way Android Studio recovers its own process list. If the compose capture still fails (e.g. the app is not debuggable), YALI shows the reason and the regular view hierarchy capture works as before.

Measure distance between two element

Select first element by Mouse click - it will be select by red square
Select second element by Mouse click + Ctrl(Cmd) - it will be select by yellow square.

In the status bar will shown distance between first and second

Measure distance with ruler

Press Shift and move mouse to see where will be first point of ruler (black rectangle)
Mouse click + Shift to start ruler mode
Mouse drag + Shift to change ruler size You will see ruler size in current units in status bar