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AI · November 8, 2022

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Literal, generate app map with analytics/network calls for iOS/Android

Hi! I'm a long-time Android dev and shorter-time iOS dev. I work on this cool project called Literal (https://www.literal.ai/devs). Demo available without any signup requirement: https://literal.ai/hn You can upload your own app recording or use a sample of the Calm app. Literal will map out the screens on an interactive canvas. I built Literal, because I often field a lot of questions from PMs and other folks about what the new app release looks like. I used to send out screenshots in Slack and manually document analytics events as well as what APIs were hit.…

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Hi! I'm a long-time Android dev and shorter-time iOS dev. I work on this cool project called Literal (https://www.literal.ai/devs). Demo available without any signup requirement: https://literal.ai/hn You can upload your own app recording or use a sample of the Calm app. Literal will map out the screens on an interactive canvas. I built Literal, because I often field a lot of questions from PMs and other folks about what the new app release looks like. I used to send out screenshots in Slack and manually document analytics events as well as what APIs were hit. Other times, I needed feedback and final approval for what I spiked on. Worse, I was often blocked by missing assets or pending copy. This was a huge pain and such a huge waste of time. Now I work on Literal which makes it incredibly easy to share a picture of the app flows to my team. If you include the SDK as a debug dependency, you can record an app flow and get the analytics and network calls overlaid on screens. No manual screenshots or documenting needed. No messing around with Figma or Lucid either. You can ping folks in Slack or Jira with some default integrations. This helped me avoid so many back and forth meetings. More dev time - yay. Looking for feedback on the experience and how well the SDK works for you (Android / iOS devs). It's free! PS: Mobile devs - don't worry, no need to add the SDK to the production release. * Example of app maps: https://www.literal.ai/examples * Docs: https://docs.literal.ai/ * Homepage: https://literal.ai/devs * Demo without signup: https://literal.ai/hn

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