Tatelier — your Android & React Native cockpit, inside VS Code

Stop juggling five terminals, a phone on your desk and a browser tab full of adb commands. Tatelier puts the whole Android development loop one click away, right next to your code: devices, Metro, builds, logs, Expo and a live mirror of the phone screen.

It runs on the same Rust core as the Tatelier desktop app — fast, native, no Electron helper processes — and follows the project you have open, not a config file you have to maintain.

What you get

Devices, at a glance. Every phone and emulator adb can see, with model, Android version and connection type. Expand a device for its actions: connect Metro (adb reverse), launch the app, install an APK, mirror the screen, uninstall, open the logs. Everything you used to type, as rows you click.

Metro the way you like it. Start the dev server in an integrated terminal — colours, r to reload, j for DevTools — or in the background with its output in the Output panel. The status bar always shows what is running on your port, and warns you when another process is squatting on it (and offers to kill it).

Builds without the guesswork. Debug and release APKs for the architectures you actually ship, with Gradle's output streamed live, the produced artifacts listed, and a build history that remembers how long the last one took.

A Log Explorer built for React Native. Logcat filtered to your app's process, with levels, categories, tag and PID filters, quick chips for the noise you never want to see, a detail pane for stack traces, and export to a file.

Expo, first class. expo prebuild, prebuild --clean and expo-doctor from the Project view; Expo Go and dev-client detection; the right dev-server flags for Expo CLI versus the community CLI, picked for you.

Screen mirroring. One click mirrors the device in its own window through scrcpy, with your saved quality, audio and recording options. Missing scrcpy? Tatelier downloads the official release into its own tools folder — nothing touches your system PATH.

Your scripts, your terminal. Every package.json script becomes a row that runs in a terminal with the package manager your project uses (npm, yarn, pnpm or bun).

It knows your project. Open a React Native, Expo or Android folder and the Project view adapts: a Build group only when android/ exists, an Expo group only for Expo apps. No setup screen, no "add project" step.

Environment doctor. Node, JDK, Android SDK, adb, Gradle and Expo checked in one view, with versions — and with what is wrong when something is.

Clean up in seconds. Build caches, Gradle outputs, node_modules: scanned with sizes, deleted with a checkbox each, never by surprise.

Workflows. The desktop app's step lists — start Metro, detect a device, build, install, launch — run here too, with progress and a log you can read afterwards.

Requirements

• Windows x64 and VS Code 1.100 or newer
• Android SDK platform-tools (adb on your PATH, or ANDROID_HOME set)
• Node.js for Metro and Expo; a JDK for Gradle builds

Getting started

1. Install the extension and open a React Native, Expo or Android project folder.
2. Click the Tatelier icon in the activity bar. The Project view lists what your project can do; the Devices view lists what adb sees.
3. Plug in a phone (USB debugging on) or start an emulator, then hit Start Metro in terminal and Launch app.

Commands live under the Tatelier: prefix in the Command Palette. Tatelier: Show Core Log opens the engine's log if anything misbehaves.

Privacy

Tatelier talks to your devices, your project folder and — only when you ask for scrcpy — GitHub's release download. Nothing else leaves your machine.

Built by LATATE. Tatelier is also available as a standalone desktop app with Git tooling, release management and Play Console uploads.