Feature ideas 💡✨

[okwasniewski]

In this issue I want to track future feature ideas and gather some feedback around what you want to see next!

• Turn on / off accessibility on Android Emulators
• Send text to Android emulator
• Clean derived data for each app separately
• Show emulator on disk
• Add emulators to favourites
• Customise shortcuts launching emulators
• Show / Hide - Android / iOS sections
• copy simulator name for iOS to use in the terminal
• copy android emulator device id to use in adb
• Installed apps management
• Show which android emulator has google play services (by @krozniata)
• Show which flags were used to launch emulator (by @krozniata)

[dutradotdev]

I would like to share some ideas too:

• Show logs for iOS apps and logcat for android apps (sometimes you just want to check native logs but you don't want to open android studio or xcode)
• Filter logs for both platforms (it is really bad to filter logs using grep and etc)

[okwasniewski]

Hey @dutradotdev,

Thanks for your input! I'm not sure if it is possible to show logs for iOS app without opening Xcode. Could you provide some examples of that? I think that adding option to launch logcat is great 👍🏻

Also, it would be very useful if you could provide an example of filtering logs (for both platforms).

[phucynwa]

could you add supporting scrcpy feature ?

[okwasniewski]

could you add supporting scrcpy feature ?

@phucynwa Thanks for the suggestion but I want to keep MiniSim focused only on emulators. Therefore I won't add it, at least for now.

[dutradotdev]

@okwasniewski I don't know how to do this for iOS, for android you need to exec adb logcat and filter by tag (probably using regexes)
Android: https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/logcat
iOS: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10165641/how-can-i-get-the-console-logs-from-the-ios-simulator

[dutradotdev]

you can use this to check iOS device logs

brew install libimobiledevice
idevice_id --list // list available device UDIDs
idevicesyslog -u <device udid>

[mrcsxsiq]

It would be nice if was possible open the command below in terminal

adb logcat -v color

In this menu:

It could be an option named like Open logcat

[okwasniewski]

Hey @mrcsxsiq, thanks for proposing a new feature!

Starting with version 0.6.0 you can create your own custom commands! You can achieve this by creating a new command and pasting this apple script:

osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal"
    do script "adb logcat -v color"
end tell'

[ameer-taghavi]

feature request: Wipe data for each android emulator

[okwasniewski]

feature request: Wipe data for each android emulator

Hey @ameer-taghavi,

You can achieve this by creating a custom command by going to Preferences > Custom Commands.

Here is the custom command you can paste: $android_home_path/emulator/emulator @$device_name -wipe-data

[sclavijo93]

Is a CLI available? I would like to use it with some scripts I've built