Chrome Mobile DevTools Reviews & Product Details

Chrome's Dev Tools are a tool I discovered by accident one day. It was the best accident of this year so far.

What I love most about the dev tools is:

- the ability to see the animation time on a graphic representation for timing

- easily create preset device dimensions and ratios

- very flexible way to develop on Windows and Mac platforms

- preview media queries extremely quickly

Chrome's dev tools are a godsend for those of us that used to install browser plugins for firefox back in the day that would barely give us the ability to inspect CSS let alone change it on the fly and be able to copy and paste it from the browser to our code editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When it's great, it's great. When it's not, there's no fixing it.

I don't like that I have to have the developer tools window open to enable it. Maybe there is another way but a lot of the functionality seems to just be find on your own and learn on your own. Safari has a much nicer interface for the mobile dev tools and I wish Chrome had something like that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to evaluate my site’s performance using the network emulator, without affecting traffic to other tabs and possibly losing users along the way from frustration. Usually while remote debugging a mobile device, you had to shift your eyes back and forth between the device and your desktop computer; now Screencast displays your device's screen right inside of Chrome DevTools on your desktop to make it a lot easier to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although Chrome's device mode offers many powerful emulation tools, it does have some limitations. ◦GPU and CPU behavior are not emulated. MathML is not supported in Chrome, but is supported on iOS 7 devices.

The iOS 5 orientation zoom bug is not emulated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really love the fact that it comes by default with Google Chrome and is easy to use, like in a normal web app. Also, the support for remote debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it doesn't display the devices correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Full features of chrome devtools and the ability to route traffic to use all these on a mobile version of Chrome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initial setup was difficult and required me to set up additional software for my device vendor to make it all work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how you can connect an Android device via USB and debug mobile visual components directly from a computer. Paired with the power of Chrome DevTools, you are able to debug HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with ease, in real-time, and down to a fine-tuned level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's no way to use Chrome DevTools on mobile iOS devices (iPad, iPhone)—you have to use Safari instead, which is less feature-rich. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It pretty much has it all, remote debugging your test website, your obfuscated one, etc. It offers a lot of tools to easily manage Chrome on Android and do what needs to be done to offer to the user the experience they deserve. And that includes access to the console, command line, and pretty much everything else you expect to find on the desktop version of its counterpart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It may not be easy to setup at first, and somewhat requires sometimes a bit of know-how, since everything is not wysiwyg. Maybe for some it will lack the all-in-one graphic aspect some devs might not need. Some typing required sometimes to get to the bottom line of what a problem might be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

clean minimal design, quick to understand if you're already in the field of development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some features are lacking or don't quite represent in a true-to-life fashion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chrome Mobile DevTools is a great time-saver for anyone working on mobile-ready websites. This product is extremely easy to use -- it is ideal for testing web-views right from within Google Chrome. Simply click on the tools icon and you can automatically check the sizing and overall responsiveness of your website. This tool has definitely helped to speed up the development process. I highly recommend Chrome Mobile DevTools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial setup was a bit difficult - I had a few issues enabling Mobile DevTools on some of my devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

remote controls, screen streaming, debugging, profiling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DevTools menu is hardly accessible from menus and browser UI, I have to type URL manually Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The debugging tools built into the web inspector are broad, powerful and well designed. Chrome Mobile DevTools brings all this power to Android mobile debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of support for Mobile Safari, that being said this really isn't something that Google can do anything about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.