Introducing Hyperion-Android

Hyperion-Android is very useful library. I believe it will become an essential plug-in for debugging like Facebook Stetho.

You can check annoucement blog post for a feature showcase.

Introducing Hyperion for Android

And you can basic usage of this library in GitHub

willowtreeapps/Hyperion-Android

Useful features

Measurement Inspector

I think that the Measurement Inspector is killer feature. You can check the margins of all Views in the application.

Crash plugin

The crash plugin is displayed automatically when the application crashes during development, so you can view the crash log without checking logcat.

There are also many useful functions, such as being able to dynamically change preferences.

I will show you where It did not work and how I solved it.

Check the dependency of Hyperion

You will add this dependencies.

debugImplementation 'com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:hyperion-core:0.9.21'
debugImplementation 'com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:hyperion-attr:0.9.21'
debugImplementation 'com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:hyperion-measurement:0.9.21'
debugImplementation 'com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:hyperion-disk:0.9.21'
debugImplementation 'com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:hyperion-recorder:0.9.21'
debugImplementation 'com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:hyperion-phoenix:0.9.21'
debugImplementation 'com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:hyperion-crash:0.9.21'
debugImplementation 'com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:hyperion-shared-preferences:0.9.21'

Probably your application will fail to build. Because Hyperion-Android uses the latest support library.

+--- com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:hyperion-core:0.9.21
|    +--- com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:hyperion-plugin:0.9.21
|    +--- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.0 (*)
|    +--- com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:27.1.0 (*)
|    \--- com.google.dagger:dagger:2.15
|         \--- javax.inject:javax.inject:1

If you don’t want to update that library, you can exclude it.

["hyperion-core", "hyperion-attr", "hyperion-measurement", "hyperion-disk", "hyperion-recorder","hyperion-phoenix","hyperion-crash"].forEach {
    debugImplementation ("com.willowtreeapps.hyperion:$it:0.9.20"){
      exclude group: 'com.android.support'
      exclude group: 'com.google.dagger'
    }
  }

If DebugMenu is already implemented in your application

If DebugMenu is already implemented in your app, you do not want to erase its implementation, do you?

You can create a Hyperion-Android plugin and add it to the menu.

But that is a little hard. Therefore, I made plugins that can be easily added to Menu.

So I made a plugin to make it easy. You can customize Hyperion-Android’s Menu.

Hyperion-Simple-Item

DebugApp.java

takahirom/Hyperion-Simple-Item

You can check Introduce Hyperion-Android Pull Request.

Introduce Hyperion-Android by takahirom · Pull Request #672 · DroidKaigi/conference-app-2018

Have a good debug life!