Alice 1.x: The Inspector Gets a Glow-Up
Let’s be honest for a second. Tracking down rogue HTTP calls is practically a rite of passage in mobile development. We have all been there. You print a raw JSON string to the console, try to format it in your head, realize it is truncated, and finally give up and hook up a heavy desktop proxy tool just to see what your app is actually sending to the server.
Since its big 1.0.0 rewrite, Alice has been quietly but aggressively evolving to make that entire process drastically less painful and significantly more insightful.
If you blinked over the last few months, you might have missed a slew of new features that turn Alice from a simple list of scrolling logs into a proper network debugging powerhouse. Let's take a leisurely tour of what has landed in the 1.x series.