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Nothing beats interacting with your designs in their natural context. That’s why we’ve revamped the Framer Preview mobile apps to cater to every use case—from high-fidelity user testing to collaborating with teammates to sharing work with clients and more. With newly added USB support, built-in sensor support, and a complete Android redesign, it’s now even easier to watch your projects come to life like fully functional native apps.

Preview projects securely via USB.

If you’re an enterprise client and use Framer over a protected corporate network, you’ll be happy to know that it’s now possible to view your designs over USB. Simply connect your device to your Mac via USB for instant, secure sharing and added peace of mind.

Once you plug in the USB cable, you’ll see all your active projects in the app, and if you happen to be connected to Wi-Fi you’ll also be able to browse your network to preview your team’s projects in one place.

Access the project menu in three simple ways.

When viewing a project, the app navigation will disappear so you can get a true feel for interactions without any distractions. Want to refresh the project, go back to the project view, or download the project locally to your device? You’ve got three options:

• Wave your hand over the device’s proximity sensor (iOS only)
• Swipe up from the bottom
• Shake the device

You can toggle these on or off in Settings.

An Android app rebuilt from the ground up.

Android users, rejoice! We completely redesigned the app so it’s now in line with modern Material Design guidelines, and also includes some long-awaited new features.

See your changes live in the app.

Make changes to your project and see your updates reflected live in the mobile app whenever you save on desktop.

Preview projects anytime, anywhere.

Save projects directly to the app for viewing offline and see all your saved projects in the Downloads tab. Go ahead and showcase your projects live for client demos, user feedback sessions, and more—even when you’re away from your Mac.

Easily view shared projects.

Projects open automatically in-app no matter how they’re shared—text message, web links, etc. You can access all your shared projects and copied links via the Links tab.

Built-in sensor support.

There are already a ton of powerful sensors in your device and you can use web APIs to listen to those sensors and make them functional in your prototypes. To make this easier, we added built-in snippets to Framer for Mac so you can quickly implement them for compass, orientation, and motion.

Here are three examples that showcase how to use each snippet. Be sure to open each example on your iOS or Android device to see the sensors in action:

• View the Compass example
• View the Orientation example
• View the Motion example

Get the apps.

Framer Preview is available for free in the App Store and Google Play.

Happy collaborating, presenting, and user testing!

Now that we’ve made native previewing even easier, we’d love for you to share your best mobile prototypes on Dribbble, Twitter, and Facebook. Tag @Framer for a chance to get featured in our Framer Standouts email.

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