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World Congress 2022 • Jun 15, 2022

Headless Flipper - embeddable mobile devtools for your CI and beyond

Andrey Goncharov

Break your mobile devtools out of the local UI constraints. Discover how Flipper's headless architecture turns mobile debugging into a programmable backend service for automated CI pipelines.

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#1 about 6 min

Overview of Flipper as a debugging platform

Flipper acts as a device discovery service and message bus for debugging mobile and hardware applications.

#2 about 7 min

Cross-platform plugin architecture and device communication

Writing a single desktop user interface allows cross-platform reuse across various mobile device clients via websocket connections.

#3 about 3 min

Extending debugging with specialized custom plugins

Custom plugins enable real-time tracking of complex application state, automated screen navigation, and hardware event simulation.

#4 about 6 min

Addressing Electron monolith limitations with headless architecture

Separating the user interface into a web application solves remote development challenges and allows embedding Flipper anywhere.

#5 about 4 min

Extracting plugin state for command-line access

Relocating plugin state from the visual interface to a shared node process enables interaction strictly through scripts and terminal commands.

#6 about 4 min

Walkthrough of building a headless-compatible plugin

A tic-tac-toe application demonstrates how to separate core logic and state computation from the frontend.

#7 about 3 min

Exposing the plugin API for terminal interaction

Wrapping plugin functions exposes a remote procedure call interface that handles JSON messages directly from standard command-line tools.

#8 about 5 min

Utilizing headless Flipper for verification and testing

Exposing state and UI automation tasks inside a continuous integration pipeline improves design verification and simplifies test debugging.

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Evolution of web platform features and native capabilities

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