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Flipper: The Ultimate Debugging Tool for Mobile Developers

Hazem Abbas

Dec 8, 2023 — 2 min read

Flipper is a platform for debugging iOS, Android, and React Native apps. It provides tools such as a log viewer, layout inspector, and network inspector.

You can use Flipper as is or create your own plugins to visualize and debug data from your mobile apps. Both the desktop app and mobile SDKs are open-source and MIT licensed.

Flipper is moving away from its Electron distribution to an in-Browser experience.

Features

Flipper itself only provides the architectural platform
Developer-friendly documentation
What makes it useful are the plugins built on top of it
Logs, Layout Inspector and Network Inspector are all plugins
Plugins can be built very specific to your business logic and the use-cases you have in your app
We are shipping Flipper with a couple of built-in all-purpose plugins
Each plugin needs to be enabled individually

License

MIT License

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Download Flipper for free. A desktop debugging platform for mobile developers. Flipper is a platform for debugging iOS, Android and React Native apps. Visualize, inspect, and control your apps from a simple desktop interface.

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