Dev Tools

Dev Tools Dev Tools is a powerful Android assistant for developers—decompile apps, inspect layouts, sample screen colors, check CPU/OS details, view activity history, and export APK files.

Dev Tools

Dev Tools is a handy assistant designed to boost your productivity when building Android apps. It helps you inspect and extract information from other applications, including decompiling APKs, reviewing detailed app data, and more.

With Dev Tools, you can see a true-to-life color view of your device screen, check an app’s activity history, browse daily curated open-source projects, explore which apps are used most, and inspect details about your Android CPU and operating system. You can also debug apps and extract APK files—making it especially useful for Android developers who want to pull lots of technical insights from their phones.

Key Features

• Decompile other apps
• Browse app files easily
  • Open and review an app’s Java code, resources, and other bundled files
  • Supports sharing files
• App Layout Inspector Tool
  • View or export layout/view details from another app

  

  • Shows view ID, width, height, parent/child views, and view coordinates
• Screen color viewer
  • Like an eyedropper or color sampler, you can view and copy colors and their coordinates from any app
  • Includes color readouts such as ARGB and CMYK
• Daily open-source projects
  • See a carefully chosen Android open-source project every day
• Activity history
  • Displays appName, packageName, title, icon, and the start time of opened activities

  

  • Also shows the current activity and the top activity
  • Supports opening in small window mode
• View any app’s manifest
  • Browse the manifest, search within it, and save it to an SD card
  • Export format supported: text or HTML



• App management (app info)
  • View installed apps, recently used apps, and recently installed apps
  • Uses grid mode for easier browsing

Layout Details & UI Analysis

VIEW LAYOUT DETAILS: The app’s interface can be displayed in a detailed way, so you can clearly understand how interface elements are arranged and organized. This makes it easier for developers to study interface structure, learn effective design patterns, and apply them in their own projects.

Effortless UI Analysis

You can analyze the user interface structure of other applications quickly. It’s a convenient way to learn how to organize UI components in a smarter, more structured layout.

Design Inspiration Source

By studying how other apps present their interfaces, you can gather design ideas and improve your own app’s look and feel.

Highlights

• View other apps
  • Read an app’s Java resources
  • Other related files are also accessible
• App Layout Inspector Tool
  • View or export layout details, including view IDs, dimensions, child views, and coordinate information
• View screen color
  • Easily view and copy any color and its coordinates from another app, similar to an eyedropper/color sampler
• See daily open-source picks
  • A new Android open-source project is selected each day
• See activity history
  • Shows appName, packageName, icon, title, and start time for the current activity, plus the top activity
  • Small window mode is supported
• See the manifest for any app
  • Search any manifest and save it to an SD card as text or HTML

Conclusion

Dev Tools is an essential utility for Android developers because it streamlines inspection tasks and reduces the time needed to build new features. It can help you decompile other apps, inspect layout details, sample screen colors (eyedropper/color sampler style), browse recent open-source projects, review activity history, open app manifests, check recently used/installed apps, extract APK files, debug applications, and view technical information about your phone’s hardware and software.