For my design thesis I'm gonna design a banking app for kids. And i'd like to have a look at competitors apps screendesign.
Is it possible to open android and/or iphone apps in android studio/xcode in order to have a look at the screen designs?

Because I'm no kid or parent so getting accsess the legit way is out of question.

it is possible for both platforms.
But why? can't you take some screen shots, instead of RCE?

@irene it's the digital age and kids need to learn how to use their pocket money or grandmas money presents like the grown us. 🙂

@magicMirror cool, is it hard to do?
banking apps are by design behind a login. So no screenshooting. 😕

Yeah use uiautomatorviewer in your $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools or build-tools.. idk it’s in the bin folder of one of those.

This tool lets you take a screenshot of the current app on screen (as in the actual design XML)

@heyheni not very hard. most ui layout in android are just binary xmls, that you can extract using a tool like apktool. Ios also employs binary xml, but i cannot recall a tool to dump it atm.
Just to make sure, you will not get a clean UI images from those, just the layouts.
Also, in case the app is based around a webview, or if it was built with some crossplatform tol chain like phonegap, xamarin, reactnative - reversing the app won't help you much.
IMO, you should search for example scrrenshots on the relevant stores, or bank sites.

@magicMirror okay thank you very much!