# 📱 Android UI Inspector
**Android UI Inspector** is a plug-and-play Python-based visual tool to inspect and analyze the UI of Android apps directly from your phone.
🔧 No manual setup needed — it installs `ADB`, `matplotlib`, and `pyperclip` automatically and works across **Windows**, **Linux**, and **macOS**.
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## 🚀 Features
✅ Auto-installs ADB (platform-tools) for your OS
✅ Installs Python dependencies automatically
✅ Connects to real Android devices via USB or Wi-Fi
✅ Live UI screenshot + hierarchy dump
✅ Click on UI elements to highlight and inspect them
✅ Dropdown filter: `class`, `resource-id`, `text`, `bounds`
✅ One-click **Copy to Clipboard**
✅ Press `n` to cycle overlapping elements
✅ Press `r` or click "Refresh Screen" to reload live UI
✅ Cleans up old screenshots/XML files (older than 10 minutes)
✅ Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux)
✅ Works offline after first run
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## 📲 Requirements
- Android phone with:
- Developer Mode enabled
- USB Debugging turned ON
- Python 3.7 or higher
- Internet connection (for first run only)
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## 🖥 How to Use (All OS)
1. **Clone the repo**
```bash
git clone https://github.com/kdiitg/ui-finder.git
cd ui_finder
2. **In Windows**
```
pip install ui_finder
In cmd or powershell just type either ui_finder or android_inspector or uif or adr
ui_finder
3. **In Linux/MacOS**
```
pip3 install ui_finder
ui_finder
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