UI DevTools Overview

UI DevTools allows UI developers to inspect the Chrome desktop UI system like a webpage using the frontend DevTools Inspector. It is currently supported on Linux, Windows, Mac, and ChromeOS.

• Old Ash Doc
• Backend Source Code
• Inspector Frontend Source Code

How to run

1. Run Chromium with default port 9223 and start Chromium with UI DevTools flag:

    $ out/Default/chrome --enable-ui-devtools
   

   • If you want to use different port, add port in the flag --enable-ui-devtools=<port>.

2. In the Chrome Omnibox, go to chrome://inspect#other and click inspect under UIDevToolsClient.

   • Direct link is chrome-devtools://devtools/bundled/inspector.html?ws=localhost:9223/0.

Features

TODO(khamasaki): add features.