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How did you manage with the web inspector? There's no built-in web inspector on any mainstream mobile browser that I'm aware of and the only way to do it would

How did you manage with the web inspector? There's no built-in web inspector on any mainstream mobile browser that I'm aware of and the only way to do it would be to use firebug.js like the good old days.

maelito 2y ago
I recompiled chromium for Android to activate the boolean option that actives the dev tools. Haha. https://github.com/laem/chromium https://github.com/laem/chromium It takes such a long time to compile chromium that this wasn't a good solution in the long term, but worked perfectly. Don't remember how I did then, long term. But yes, this was one of the major hurdles.
rpmisms 2y ago
Kiwi browser has one!
- realusername 2y ago
  Thanks a lot for that mention, I never heard of it and its inspector seems to work fine.
  - rpmisms 2y ago
    I just found it, myself. Great so far.
londons_explore 2y ago
I think there are hacks to load up devtools in a new tab and connect it to another tab of the same browser. devtools is just a set of html and javascript after all, and talks to the page its debugging via a websocket with special powers.
- maelito 2y ago
  yes, I recompiled chromium for that https://github.com/laem/chromium https://github.com/laem/chromium But it's a heavy task in the long run.
a1o 2y ago
When I had Dex I could run Ubuntu on it. I just used Firefox.
- wkat4242 2y ago
  Yeah but it was only ever available for the S9 and only for a year or so before they killed it again :(
  - a1o 2y ago
    Yeah, I had Note9 at the time. It was glorious.
axytol 2y ago
Not the OP, but if they mentioned they did it from Termux you can install an X server and a full desktop browser like Firefox either directly or via a chroot/proot "container" via for example proot-distro [0]. [0] https://github.com/termux/proot-distro https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
- mystified5016 2y ago
  There's also an app called userland which seems to spin up some kind of VM. I don't know if android supports KVMs or if it's a real userspace chroot type of deal. I toyed with it briefly, the performance is about what I expected given the hardware I was using. Which is to say, not a terrible amount of overhead
- realusername 2y ago
  You can yeah but it's super slow even with my high end phone

maelito 2y ago

I recompiled chromium for Android to activate the boolean option that actives the dev tools. Haha. https://github.com/laem/chromium https://github.com/laem/chromium It takes such a long time to compile chromium that this wasn't a good solution in the long term, but worked perfectly. Don't remember how I did then, long term. But yes, this was one of the major hurdles.

rpmisms 2y ago

Kiwi browser has one!

realusername 2y ago
Thanks a lot for that mention, I never heard of it and its inspector seems to work fine.
- rpmisms 2y ago
  I just found it, myself. Great so far.

londons_explore 2y ago

I think there are hacks to load up devtools in a new tab and connect it to another tab of the same browser. devtools is just a set of html and javascript after all, and talks to the page its debugging via a websocket with special powers.

maelito 2y ago
yes, I recompiled chromium for that https://github.com/laem/chromium https://github.com/laem/chromium But it's a heavy task in the long run.

a1o 2y ago

When I had Dex I could run Ubuntu on it. I just used Firefox.

wkat4242 2y ago
Yeah but it was only ever available for the S9 and only for a year or so before they killed it again :(
- a1o 2y ago
  Yeah, I had Note9 at the time. It was glorious.

axytol 2y ago

Not the OP, but if they mentioned they did it from Termux you can install an X server and a full desktop browser like Firefox either directly or via a chroot/proot "container" via for example proot-distro [0]. [0] https://github.com/termux/proot-distro https://github.com/termux/proot-distro

mystified5016 2y ago
There's also an app called userland which seems to spin up some kind of VM. I don't know if android supports KVMs or if it's a real userspace chroot type of deal. I toyed with it briefly, the performance is about what I expected given the hardware I was using. Which is to say, not a terrible amount of overhead
realusername 2y ago
You can yeah but it's super slow even with my high end phone