Not the OP, but if they mentioned they did it from Termux you can install an X server and a full desktop browser like Firefox either directly or via a chroot/proot "container" via for example proot-distro [0].

[0] https://github.com/termux/proot-distro

There's also an app called userland which seems to spin up some kind of VM. I don't know if android supports KVMs or if it's a real userspace chroot type of deal.

I toyed with it briefly, the performance is about what I expected given the hardware I was using. Which is to say, not a terrible amount of overhead

You can yeah but it's super slow even with my high end phone

I recompiled chromium for Android to activate the boolean option that actives the dev tools. Haha.

https://github.com/laem/chromium

It takes such a long time to compile chromium that this wasn't a good solution in the long term, but worked perfectly.

Don't remember how I did then, long term. But yes, this was one of the major hurdles.

Kiwi browser has one!

Thanks a lot for that mention, I never heard of it and its inspector seems to work fine.

I just found it, myself. Great so far.

I think there are hacks to load up devtools in a new tab and connect it to another tab of the same browser.

devtools is just a set of html and javascript after all, and talks to the page its debugging via a websocket with special powers.

yes, I recompiled chromium for that https://github.com/laem/chromium

But it's a heavy task in the long run.

When I had Dex I could run Ubuntu on it. I just used Firefox.

Yeah but it was only ever available for the S9 and only for a year or so before they killed it again :(

Yeah, I had Note9 at the time. It was glorious.