Sketch Artboard Mirroring for Android

Pierre Stokx
Jul 26, 2017 · 2 min read

(Note this app is Sketch update dependent and breaks. It may well fall over as sketch updates. When Crystal works it’s great, when it don’t, it don’t…)

Well that took a while, but finally someone has built a Sketch Artboard mirroring app for Android.

Crystal seems to be working pretty smoothly for me at the moment via WIFI but buggy via USB.

Just hit the artboard in sketch for the mirroring and to swap views.

Rory Smith the creator says “Using Sketch is awesome. It’s slick, fast and so easy to make good looking designs. It was just a shame that you could preview designs on your iOS device, but not Android. So I made Crystal, which hooks into Sketch’s existing mirror API to give you a realtime previewing app that works flawlessly. It doesn’t even need a companion Mac app like a few others out there.”

Download Crystal from Google Play for your phone preview:

Update:

I have just updated to Android 9 and Crystal to version v2.3.7. This version seems more stable.

USB:
The companion app for Mac is here and this has fixed the USB connectivity issues for me at least. You will need to select system “Use USB to” “Transfer files” from the OS or toast notification/message.

The site has also been updated and is much smarter and considered:
https://crystal.smithy.productions/

Service Design leader, UX&D & IDX practitioner.

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