Flipper

Flipper offers you the possibility to enhance your development environment with extra testing and debugging functionality.

It targets Android, iOS, and React native application development use case scenarios, and lets developers and QA engineers inspect and control functionality in their applications.

The stylish application is free of cost, and it was developed by Facebook and open-source contributors. It enables a console log viewer and sorter, layout and network inspection, database and image management and implementation handling, Metro and React dev tools access (through dedicated plugins), shared preferences control, and crash reporter usage.

For example, you can use this platform for sending data back and forth between your mobile application and the testing environment or listen to the events from the mobile app.

Flipper's sophisticated environment provides you with a feature called the 'Setup Doctor.' This system inspector evaluates and reports on the missing components or configuration options needed for optimal testing conditions.

As such, in a default state, it will ask you to install or add to PATH OpenSSH, install and configure Watchman (a file watching tool that tracks and records changes done in your files), and the Android/iOS SDK installed and added to the root path.

You can use Flipper as a testing platform or extend its functionality with API plugin additions. In the program, in the 'Plugin' area, you can check all the plugins known to Flipper and install new ones by accessing a simple 'Install' command.

The application comes packed with large documentation and walkthrough guides that contain code examples and implementations, as well as plugin creation methods.