Summary: Bug Summary: When running Flipper on Mac, the Mac device is always first to register with Flipper and thus is always selected as the default connected device when first launching. This blocks the beautiful tutorial screen from appearing for new users. Fix: When registering new devices in the redux store, a new check has been added that maintains a blacklist of devices that cannot be selected as default. I have added Mac to start. At the same time, this fix preserves userPreferredDevices so that if the user has selected Mac as a device in the past, then next time Flipper is opened, even blacklisted devices will be displayed. Making this fix uncovered a race condition, between the redux state being rehydrated and the devices being registered. I have potentially fixed this via a callback function in persistStore. Reviewed By: passy Differential Revision: D16048371 fbshipit-source-id: 79580b30e8a3b077dac1ac15131266e59646253f
Flipper

Flipper (formerly Sonar) is a platform for debugging mobile apps on iOS and Android. Visualize, inspect, and control your apps from a simple desktop interface. Use Flipper as is or extend it using the plugin API.
Table of Contents
- Mobile development
- Extending Flipper
- Contributing to Flipper
- In this repo
- Getting started
- Building from Source
Mobile development
Flipper aims to be your number one companion for mobile app development on iOS and Android. Therefore, we provide a bunch of useful tools including a log viewer, interactive layout inspector, and network inspector.
Extending Flipper
Flipper is built as a platform. In addition to using the tools already included, you can create your own plugins to visualize and debug data from your mobile apps. Flipper takes care of sending data back and forth, calling functions, and listening for events on the mobile app.
Contributing to Flipper
Both Flipper's desktop app and native mobile SDKs are open-source and MIT licensed. This enables you to see and understand how we are building plugins, and of course join the community and help improve Flipper. We are excited to see what you will build on this platform.
In this repo
This repository includes all parts of Flipper. This includes:
- Flipper's desktop app built using Electron (
/src) - native Flipper SDKs for iOS (
/iOS) - native Flipper SDKs for Android (
/android) - Plugins:
- Logs (
/src/device-plugins/logs) - Layout inspector (
/src/plugins/layout) - Network inspector (
/src/plugins/network) - Shared Preferences/NSUserDefaults inspector (
/src/plugins/shared_preferences)
- Logs (
- website and documentation (
/website//docs)
Getting started
Please refer to our Getting Started guide to set up Flipper.
Requirements
- macOS (Flipper works on Linux and Windows, too, but we only support macOS officially at the moment.)
- node >= 8
- yarn >= 1.5
- iOS developer tools (for developing iOS plugins)
- Android SDK and adb
Building from Source
Desktop
Running from source
git clone https://github.com/facebook/flipper.git
cd flipper
yarn
yarn start
NOTE: If you're on Windows, you need to use Yarn 1.5.1 until this issue is resolved.
Building standalone application
yarn build --mac --version $buildNumber
iOS SDK + Sample App
cd iOS/Sample
rm -f Podfile.lock
pod install --repo-update
open Sample.xcworkspace
<Run app from xcode>
You can omit --repo-update to speed up the installation, but watch out as you may be building against outdated dependencies.
Android SDK + Sample app
Start up an android emulator and run the following in the project root:
./gradlew :sample:installDebug
Documentation
Find the full documentation for this project at fbflipper.com.
Our documentation is built with Docusaurus. You can build it locally by running this:
cd website
yarn
yarn start
Contributing
See the CONTRIBUTING file for how to help out.
License
Flipper is MIT licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.
