Developer playground
Why a developer playground?
The application relies heavily on the WebView and an active connection to a server, making it challenging to quickly test features during development. Often, you may need to rebuild the app multiple times to test specific behaviors. While the Compose preview capabilities can help with UI testing, they are sometimes insufficient, requiring you to go through the whole UX flow that can be tedious.
To save time during development, we’ve created a developer playground. This playground is accessible only in debug builds through an application shortcut. This ensures it does not interfere with the rest of the application.
The playground code is located in the app/src/debug sourceSet.
You are free to use the playground as needed, but only commit changes if they provide value to other developers. When committing changes to the playground, ensure you follow the codestyle and best practices. Translations, however, can be omitted.
Examples of valuable contributions
- A method to intentionally crash the application to test error reporting in the cache folder.
- A tool to display all components and themes used within the application.