Third-party plugins

There is a large and growing number of third-party plugins available, making it difficult to select a fair sample. The following sections covers a small collection of plugins selected primarily for their general-purpose usefulness.

ADB Wi-Fi

This is a JetBrains plugin and so can be found using the Browse Repositories... button of the Plugins screen of the Settings dialog:

The plugins dialog

This plugin simply allows us to debug our apps using a shared Wi-Fi connection. Despite its simplicity, this app is more than a cable-saving convenience, as it allows live debugging of many of the device's sensors that would be greatly restricted by being tethered to the host machine. Fitness and augmented reality apps can be tested with far more ease this way.

ADB Wi-Fi is very simple to set up and use, especially if your host and device already share a Wi-Fi connection and the device has been used for debugging before.

Most plugins are far more complex than this one, and many employ some...