30 open-source projects similar to jakewharton/pidcat, ranked by shared indexed features. Tags may describe platforms or build tools rather than the same primary purpose. Check each project’s use case, license, and deployment requirements before treating it as a replacement.
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Stetho is a debug bridge that connects Android applications to Chrome Developer Tools. It allows for the real-time inspection of network traffic, internal application state, and the user interface layout directly within a desktop browser. The project provides specialized inspectors for analyzing Android-specific components. This includes a network inspector for capturing HTTP requests and responses, an SQLite database browser for querying local storage, and a view hierarchy inspector for mapping UI elements and styles. Additional capabilities cover runtime execution via an embedded JavaScrip
AndroidWiFiADB is an IntelliJ IDE plugin that provides wireless debugging and device connection management for Android devices. It serves as a tool for establishing wireless connections over WiFi, allowing for the deployment and debugging of applications without a physical USB cable. The plugin includes a mobile device connection manager that provides a centralized dashboard for tracking and monitoring the connection states of multiple wireless Android devices. The system integrates directly into the JetBrains development environment, utilizing a tool window to manage device connectivity and
Tailspin is a regex-based text colorizer and terminal log viewer designed to transform plain text streams into colorized output. It functions as a command line log highlighter and tailer that applies syntax highlighting to logs using regular expressions. The tool distinguishes itself through its ability to monitor files in real time and pipe live output through a highlighter. It recognizes and colors common data types such as IP addresses, UUIDs, HTTP methods, JSON objects, dates, and memory pointers. Users can define custom highlight styles and regex patterns to assign specific colors to uni
Chucker is an on-device HTTP inspector for Android applications that captures and records network traffic for the OkHttp library. It functions as a network interceptor and proxy-like utility, allowing for the analysis of API calls directly within the mobile application environment. The tool provides a local interface for analyzing API interactions, which includes the ability to decode binary response bodies into human-readable text. It also includes security features to mask sensitive information in request and response headers through redaction rules. Captured transactions are managed via a
Chuck is an in-app network debugger and HTTP traffic logger for Android applications. It intercepts and records outgoing requests and incoming responses for OkHttp clients, providing an interface to monitor network activity and debug API interactions directly on a mobile device. The tool enables the inspection of network traffic through gzip decompression of compressed payloads and a search utility for filtering transactions by request paths or response codes. Captured interactions can be exported to external applications using the Android system share intent. The system manages data using l
xCrash is an Android crash reporting SDK and diagnostic tool designed to monitor application health. It captures Java exceptions, native C/C++ crashes, and application not responding events without requiring root or system permissions. The system generates diagnostic tombstones that include process memory, file descriptors, and network statistics. It utilizes a unified pipeline to handle both JVM exceptions and native signal failures, providing thread-state snapshotting and register states for analysis. The toolset includes capabilities for thread dump filtering via regular expressions to re
Aya is a graphical desktop client for managing Android devices via the Android Debug Bridge. It serves as a centralized interface for system administration, application debugging, and remote device interaction. The project provides specialized tools for mirroring a device screen to a computer for remote control and detecting active webview pages for inspection using remote developer tools. It also includes a visual file manager for browsing and transferring files and APK packages between a host and a connected device. Broad capabilities cover system monitoring for real-time CPU and memory us
Apkstudio is a reverse engineering integrated development environment designed for decompiling, modifying, and recompiling Android application packages. It provides a specialized suite for transforming binary files into readable source code and bundling them back into installable application archives. The project features a framework integration system that imports manufacturer-specific files to ensure accurate decompilation of vendor-modified applications. It includes a dedicated editor for Smali, Java, and XML files with syntax highlighting, as well as a hex editor for the direct modificati
android-common is a collection of shared utility components and framework libraries for Android development. It provides specialized toolkits for reverse engineering, system utility management, data caching, and high-performance user interface components. The project includes a reverse engineering toolkit for inspecting application internals through package decompilation and manifest data extraction. It also features a system utility toolkit for managing file operations and executing shell commands within the Android operating system. The library covers several capability areas, including da
Hooker is a toolkit for the dynamic instrumentation, memory analysis, and deobfuscation of Android applications. It functions as a reverse engineering framework that uses Frida to inject scripts into running processes, monitor native calls, and extract executable DEX files. The project provides specialized utilities for bypassing security controls, including tools to disable SSL certificate validation and BoringSSL pinning to enable HTTPS traffic interception. It includes capabilities for detecting application packing, extracting cryptographic keys by hooking encryption algorithms, and circum
This project provides a collection of reference materials, guides, and cheatsheets designed to optimize the Android development workflow. It serves as a comprehensive resource for implementing best practices in application building, debugging, and user interface design. The repository covers specialized techniques for build optimization, including methods to reduce binary sizes and accelerate compilation. It also provides detailed references for device debugging, memory leak detection, and the application of Material Design principles. The project further details productivity enhancements fo
AndroidPerformanceMonitor is a diagnostic library and debugging tool designed to detect UI freezes and monitor main thread responsiveness in Android applications. It functions as a UI block detector that identifies performance degradation by capturing thread stack dumps and performance logs. The tool utilizes a watchdog mechanism to monitor the main thread for hangs based on configurable time thresholds. When a block is detected, it captures a full call stack dump and triggers system-level alert notifications to notify developers immediately. The library includes capabilities for performance
AppManager is a comprehensive suite of tools for managing applications on Android devices. It provides utilities for controlling application lifecycles, modifying manifests, and administering installed packages. The project distinguishes itself through deep system integration, offering capabilities to analyze and block specific application components such as activities, services, and broadcast receivers. It includes a system for saving and restoring applications along with their associated data and permissions, as well as tools for auditing and modifying runtime and development permissions.
Dexposed is a set of runtime tools and engines designed for dynamic patching, framework interception, and code instrumentation on Android devices. It functions as a hooking framework and instrumentation tool used to load custom code into running processes to alter logic without modifying the original bytecode. The project enables the interception and modification of method behavior within both Android applications and the system framework. It specifically provides capabilities for bypassing operating system limitations by overriding framework calls and applying hot patches to live processes w
zsh-syntax-highlighting is a Zsh shell extension and plugin that provides real-time syntax highlighting and visual feedback. It functions as an interactive command-line visual aid and regular expression text colorizer that distinguishes between commands, string literals, and shell constructs during input. The project allows for extensive customization through user-defined highlight rules, custom regular expression patterns, and predicate logic. It includes specific capabilities for path-based filtering and the assignment of custom colors to text segments. The system provides real-time comman
PHP-Console-Highlighter is a syntax highlighter and console code formatter designed to apply color-coding to PHP source code for display in terminal environments. It functions as a utility to transform plain PHP text into visually structured code for command line interfaces. The tool enables terminal-based code review and provides formatted output for PHP static analysis tools and command line applications. It uses regex-based tokenization and ANSI sequence color mapping to translate syntax tokens into colored text.
Code-prettify is a browser-based tool and HTML syntax highlighter that adds visual formatting and line numbers to raw code blocks on web pages. It functions as a client-side code formatter and a customizable lexer library for defining language-specific highlighting rules. The system allows for the creation of custom lexers to provide syntax highlighting for proprietary or uncommon programming languages. Visual presentation is managed through custom code styling and the integration of external CSS stylesheets to define colors and fonts. The project provides automatic syntax highlighting and s
Forever is a process manager and command-line utility designed to run scripts continuously. It functions as a process watchdog that monitors background tasks and automatically restarts them upon failure to ensure continuous operation. The system provides a log streaming tool to capture and monitor the standard output and error streams of managed scripts in real time. It also includes development hot reloading, which triggers a process restart whenever modifications are detected in source files or specified directories. The tool covers a broad range of orchestration capabilities, including pr
Tableflip is a zero-downtime restart library and system utility designed to transfer network sockets and open file descriptors between process instances. It serves as a process lifecycle manager that coordinates the handoff of TCP, UDP, and Unix domain sockets from a parent process to a child process to maintain active sessions during service upgrades. The tool facilitates seamless restarts by utilizing file-based process ID tracking and system signals to trigger the spawning of new process instances. It ensures continuous service availability by handing over network listeners and using readi
This project is a comprehensive Android reverse engineering suite that functions as a decompiler, bytecode deobfuscator, and malware analysis tool. It is designed to convert APK, DEX, and OAT binaries into human-readable source code using a native implementation that does not require a Java Virtual Machine. The platform is distinguished by its integration with Frida for dynamic analysis, allowing users to hook methods, inject custom JavaScript, and dump device memory in real time. It also features specialized security engines, including a taint propagation engine and a stack-state machine, to
Nvim-colorizer.lua is a Neovim plugin that provides real-time syntax highlighting for color definitions directly within the text editor. It renders color codes, such as hex and RGB values, as visual backgrounds or text colors, allowing developers to preview design tokens and style definitions without leaving their source files. The plugin distinguishes itself through a performance-oriented architecture that offloads text scanning to background processes, ensuring the editor interface remains responsive. It utilizes the editor's internal decoration system to overlay highlights without modifyin
This project is a syntax highlighting plugin for the Vim text editor that provides advanced color coding for modern C++ language standards. It functions as a set of configuration files that extend the editor's native grammar to improve code readability and navigation. The plugin distinguishes between standard library components, modern language features, and user-defined code structures. By applying unique visual formatting to classes, functions, and variables, it assists in identifying language elements and understanding source code logic. The extension utilizes regex-based pattern matching
NSLogger is a remote logging framework and binary data logger designed to stream application traces from devices to a dedicated network log viewer. It enables the transmission of system traces over a network, utilizing SSL encryption to ensure secure telemetry transmission. The system distinguishes itself by supporting the embedding of raw binary data and images directly into log streams for visual inspection within the viewer. It also includes an offline log buffer that stores traces locally during network outages and automatically transmits them once connectivity is restored. The framework
This project is a JavaScript logging utility and namespace-based debugger used for printing formatted, color-coded debug messages to the console in Node.js, web browsers, and Deno. It serves as a console output formatter and execution time profiler to help identify bugs and track program flow. The system manages debug visibility through named namespaces, allowing specific groups of messages to be enabled or disabled via environment variables. It distinguishes different modules in the output stream by assigning specific colors to these namespaces. The utility includes capabilities for measuri
IREE is an MLIR-based compiler toolchain and runtime designed to translate machine learning models from various frameworks into optimized binaries for execution across diverse hardware targets. It provides a unified pipeline to ingest models from PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, and ONNX, lowering them into a common intermediate representation for deployment on CPUs, GPUs, and bare-metal embedded systems. The project distinguishes itself through a bytecode virtual machine and a hardware abstraction layer that decouple high-level model logic from specific hardware instruction sets. It supports sophis
This project is a terminal graphics library and command-line visual effects tool designed to create dynamic motion graphics using ANSI escape sequences. It provides a framework for implementing an ANSI text animation engine and a motion processor that handles the movement of characters along paths within a shell environment. The tool is distinguished by its wide array of pre-defined visual effects, ranging from simulated environmental phenomena like thunderstorms and fire to high-tech reveals such as laser etching and decryption animations. It also supports extensibility through a plugin-base
Epic is a toolkit for Android runtime instrumentation, method interception, and security posture auditing. It functions as an aspect-oriented programming framework and a dynamic method interceptor designed to monitor and alter the behavior of Java methods within the Android Runtime. The project provides capabilities for intercepting and modifying both core Android framework components and specific application logic. This allows for the injection of custom Java behavior and the redirection of method execution without altering the original source code. The framework includes tools for applicat
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