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Chrome://inspect shows my device but I can't inspect it

I want to get my hands dirty with app automation so I've been playing around with learning Appium (if anybody has any good tutorials send em my way!). I have an app on my local machine that I'm wanting to use for testing purposes.
The app is one I've created with c# and Xamarin Forms so I have all the files and the .apk locally.
I found a video that said you could use the chrome://inspect page to view apps in an emulator and even inspect them. When my app is running (starting it via Visual Studio) I can see it pop up in the device list but I don't have the option to inspect it.
I'm not sure how people feel about pictures but I don't really have any code to post so I'll just show you that the app is, indeed, running and what I see on the chrome devices page.
Here is my app running
And here is the device list from chrome. You can see the emulator there but I can't do anything with it
What am I missing here?

Chrome://Inspect is a part of Chrome Dev Tools that lets you see port forwarded web views from the mobile in a desktop browser. This is because we cannot inspect elements in Chrome mobile (something we do in desktop browser with CTRL+SHIFT+I) and we have to forward the chrome mobile window to chrome desktop.
To inspect element, if you're working on a web page or web application, just simply right click on that page and choose Inspect
And in your case, for inspecting Android application (apk), you should use UiAutomatorViewer, AppiumStudio, Katalon mobile spy, etc...
Here is my answer to similar question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58204262/7302505

How to use a Web Inspector with emulated android device (AVD)

I have the Android SDK downloaded (on a mac), and no access to Android hardware. I can start up AVD and emulate various android devices fine, but I have some CSS I'd like to inspect in the Android browser on said emulated devices. I just can't figure out how to do this.
For iOS you can hook up Safari to the xcode emulator super easy, but I can't seem to figure out the equivalent for Android and Chrome. All of the tutorials I find on the topic tell you to use a meatspace device connected through USB! Doesn't even need to be chrome - any web inspector-like service at this point, that lets me see and change CSS on the fly, will do. Help!

Easy Peasy:
Start the Android Emulator (e.g. by running your project in Android Studio)
Start Google Chrome and visit chrome://inspect
Click the Inspect-link below the detected Emulator, and off you go!

How can I execute an android emulator within an app for Desktop

I am developing an android app, but I am searching for a desktop app that can execute a Virtual Machine running Android OS. This desktop app should also be able to install an apk file to the VM by the press of a button. I have searched many pages and sites but haven't found one that runs on windows desktop or one that can be executed via the command line.
Is it possible to embed a virtual machine in a windows desktop app? If it is possible how do I do this ?

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, as I am unfamiliar with some of the terms you used, but BlueStacks might be worth a shot.

Check WindowsAndroid i think is what you need.
HERE

Android App installation on phone for testing : Suggestions

I am trying my hands on the android app development and need your suggestions to mitigate my current situation.
My organization has disabled USB for the desktop and I wouldn't be able to connect my phone through USB to test my application as I code.
I have installed genymotion but since it is behind proxy, in all the ways I could configure it, it gives proxy authentication error.
The avd is comparitively slower and the app which am trying needs internet connectivity at every step. I have tried these too and my impression is that we can make
the avd work for connecting to internet through its webbrowser but it cannot connect to internet within the apps. I might be wrong here. Please let me know if it is not the case.
Is there any other way where we can install the app in the phone as and when we code to test it..?
One option can be to export an apk file everytime and install them on the phone by sending this apk through a mail. But this will be a cumbersome activity if we have to test as and when we code.
Any suggestions on this..?
PS: I do not want to hack the desktop to enable the USB.Also using an external laptop with USB enabled is out of option in my case.
Many thanks.

Another way is using AirDroïd. You just need to install it on your test device, and you can manage it with a webapp :
your.static.ip.xx:8888
You can install your app with that way, it's really easy, you don't need any account in a local network.
For testing... no idea without usb, or without the emulator. Maybe you can log everything in a text file & get it (with airdroid for example).
EDIT
I think if you create an account you can use it external of you network.
http://web.airdroid.com/
Just create an account, & log on web & on the app, you could use it on the external way.

Why are you even bothering to use the desktop PC when your organization has made it unsuitable for development.
It will be hard work, but you could do all your development on the Android device itself, using AIDE
(Actually AIDE is pretty practical as a IDE if you have a large screen tablet, and pair it with a full size bluetooth keyboard).

Quote: "Inside your project bin folder there is an apk file. If you copy that file to a device you can then install the app from it.
When I am in your situation I throw my apk into dropbox and send out links for people to download it."
from this link

I doubt that if your company has disabled USB they still allow Bluetooth, but because you did not state it specifically:
If you can use Bluetooth, the best way would be to use it for running and debugging your App.
There are some Tutorials on the web.
For Example: http://zcourts.com/2013/07/19/android-debugging-over-bluetooth-without-root/

How to run Google Glass Project on emulator?

I don't have a google glass device. But I am very interested to do apps for Google Glass. I want to run a Hello World in Google Glass without the use of device.
I followed the tutorials for Google Glass. Then I found some sample projects of Google glass. Can Anyone tell me how to run a simple Google Glass Project on an emulator or without a device.
And can you tell, Is there any alternative way to test the Glass APK developed by us without device.

First you need to set up Glass On mobile or an Emulator in Web. Gooogle Glass is orignally a launcher over android you need to install the apks of that launcher.
Here you will find the APK's (however Camera for Glass never worked for me.)
Here is an Album showing you the process (on Nexus 7)
And This is the set of Demo's
After all set up you have to connect the android phone and then install the apk's using adb.
e.g.
adb install -r com.sample.packagee
after that you can launch the app through voice command or if it doesnot support voice trigger then launch it like
adb shell am start -n com.mikedg.android.glass.launchy/.MainActivity
I am writing down a wiki for the issues and the to do's Please check it here..

There are no simulators right now available to do perform testing without the device.
First :
You can try this https://github.com/zhuowei/Xenologer and install the apk on mobile device which is more or less similar to what you are looking for.
Second :
You can try thus but u have to build your application based on Mirror API http ://glasssim.com/ or
https ://developers.google.com/glass/tools-downloads/playground
Third to have your custom apk install :
https ://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/quick-start#installing_the_samples
To display your hello world Try second option it should work. It will add your card in Glass Timeline.
Hope this answers your question.
Thanks

There is not an emulator for Glass at this time. Testing on Glass is an important part of a Glassware development life cycle as the user experience is completely different from what you can experience on a phone or an emulator.
Feel free to follow issue 253 on our issue tracker for updates as the GDK evolves.