# facebook/stetho

Stetho is a debug bridge for Android applications, enabling the powerful Chrome Developer Tools and much more.

Repository: https://github.com/facebook/stetho
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/stetho
Homepage: http://facebook.github.io/stetho/
Language: Java
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-10-26T03:44:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4241, "days_push": 676, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 12655, forks 1117 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:59.511230+00:00)

## What it is
Stetho is a debug bridge for Android applications that exposes app internals to Chrome Developer Tools via chrome://inspect. It supports network inspection, SQLite database browsing, view hierarchy inspection, and an optional dumpapp CLI plus a JavaScript console.

## Use cases
- inspect android app network requests in chrome devtools
- browse and edit sqlite database of an android app
- debug android view hierarchy from desktop browser
- run command-line commands against app internals with dumpapp
- export android network traces to HAR
- add a javascript console to an android app

## When to choose
- you develop Android apps and want Chrome DevTools-based inspection
- you need to debug OkHttp/HttpURLConnection network traffic on device
- you want to inspect or modify app SQLite databases interactively

## When to avoid
- you need a debugger for non-Android Java applications
- you want actively developed tooling with modern Android Studio integration
- you need iOS or cross-platform mobile debugging

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, monitoring, tracing, database, http-client
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, developer-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: debug-bridge, chrome-devtools, network-inspection, sqlite-inspection, view-hierarchy, dumpapp, android-debugging, debugging, android

## Member repositories
- facebook/stetho (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:59.511230+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:13:53.495581+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/facebook/stetho (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:59.511230+00:00, sha 11a044413fec)
  - homepage: http://facebook.github.io/stetho/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:12.021960+00:00, sha 52aecc158ec0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.