avatarchik / rebro

Realm Browser for Android Studio

Rebro

Realm Browser for Android Studio

Install

1. Your App

repositories {
    maven {
        url "http://dl.bintray.com/ghedeon/maven"
    }
}

...

dependencies {
    debugCompile 'com.ghedeon:rebro-client:0.1'
}    

2. Android Studio

Download latest release of Rebro.zip and install it via Settings → Plugins → Install plugin from disk…

Usage

No additional setup is required. Click "+" button in order to initiate the communication.

Implementation Details

Websocket connection is used as a transport layer of app ⟺ plugin communication.

The rebro-client library is running a ws client that connects to the ws server owned by Rebro plugin.

A broadcast intent is send by Rebro plugin via ADB in order to communicate the server's IP to potential clients.

Alternatively, an UDP autodiscovering technique might be used in order to identify the WS Server.

JSON RPC (backed by json-smart) is used in order to formalize the protocol and handle serialization/deserialization routine.

Libraries used

WebSockets: https://github.com/TooTallNate/Java-WebSocket

JSON RPC: http://software.dzhuvinov.com/json-rpc-2.0-base.html

Ideally, a smaller subset of RFC 6455 and JSON-RPC 2.0 Specification can be implemented, in order to reduce the number of dependencies.

License

GNU GPLv3

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt