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                A tangled miasma of hacks that somehow manage to launch stetho
              
          
    So I got annoyed at always having to reconnect to Stetho, and I figured there would be some better way to do this in Android Studio ... and maybe there is, but this is the best I've gotten so far. Putting this together in a gist was inspired by a question on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/7hz3xy/stetho_anyone_know_of_a_convenient_way_to/
How does this work?


Use Android Studio custom Run configuration to call a new gradle task :app:launchStetho before the app launches
The gradle task uses launchctl (docs) to start an out-of-band AppleScript automation open-stetho.applescript
The AppleScript waits a few seconds, then controls Chrome to open chrome://inspect and loops until the "Inspect" action is available, and then executes a click() against that DOM element

Setup


Choose a location for the applescript and ensure that it's executable `chmo