Just curious but has anyone tried dropping an apk to Claude Code and make a Figma file out of it?

@Kenneth Interesting idea! apk is compiled. Would need to start an android emulator to run the app (assuming app needs no signup/login).

@HashNuke Yeah. If you’ve ever inherited an app (or bad documentation), this is something you spend way too long constructing.

@Kenneth screenshots to react/figma then?

@HashNuke Yeah but screenshots arent editable so if you are doing a redesign, you will have to recreate the screen again. And very often apps have screens that aren’t designed because they get missed out in PRDs and Figma and the dev and qa took a call on adding them to handle states.

@Kenneth I meant instead of using the apk as input, use screenshots as input, to get react or figma designs as output. Figma seems to have a plugin API. So should be possible I guess.

@HashNuke Yeah but time consuming, also simulating edge cases is hard. Though ideally I’m thinking of this as a connected loop. You make change to the canvas artboard and it should make the changes back into your android studio/xcode view.

@Kenneth @HashNuke I don't think Claude Code would catch edge cases reliably. Outlandish idea: what's stopping you from building the APK locally and *designing* with Claude Code?

@Shrihari @HashNuke Yeah that would work. But you know, other stakeholders still need screens. Hence the original question.

@Kenneth @Shrihari shrihari's comeback is going to be let the stakeholders see working demos/recordings (which is valid) sidenote: I now realize it's important for engg to share container images + test data to help someone run api endpoints required for mobile apps and build on their own.

@HashNuke @Kenneth You could perhaps use Claude to generate "screenshots" of live screens. All said and done, this is uncharted territory for me. Mobile apps are more complex than web apps. With web apps, we use Figma <10% these days. Most design is done with Claude