I wrote a script to bring Chrome DevTools to Android

Leo Ho — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:14:13 +0000

Hey everyone, I wrote a script to bring DevTools (based on eruda) to Android Chrome. It works on any website, and you can access it by shaking your phone. It uses a local VPN tunnel to dynamically inject the script into a page. Installation is simple, takes around 10 minutes.

Some features include:

Execute JavaScript on page
Select an element on the page to view its properties
Inspect incoming and outgoing network requests

A 1-minute demo:

Feel free to check out the repo here!

leohku / andure

DevTools for Android Chrome — works on any website, on any Chromium browser.

Andure — DevTools for Android Chrome

Based on eruda, andure dynamically injects web-based DevTools into any website through a local VPN tunnel (using AdGuard HTTPS filtering), allowing for inspection and debugging similar to desktop Chromium DevTools.

To start DevTools for a website, simply shake your phone and a prompt will appear.

To install, follow the installation section below.

1-Minute Demo

Andure.Demo.mov

Visit https://youtu.be/fVCdcvZ7Cv8 if the above video cannot be played.

Features

Execute JavaScript on page
Select an element on the page to view its properties
Inspect incoming and outgoing network requests
Inspect website source
Show localStorage, and cookie information
etc.

See eruda docs for more features.

Installation

Download the andure script from this repo and save it on your phone. (For browsers with devicemotion disabled, e.g. Brave, there is another script that shows the DevTools button persistently)
Install AdGuard for Android and enable HTTPS filtering.
In Settings >…

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