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Blog post: announce Testify's Paparazzi support #310

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Testify's Paparazzi support shipped, but was never announced. The work is done and invisible, which wastes most of its community value.

Spun off from #278, which is now closed as delivered.

This feedback relates to:

  • The Kotlin library
  • The Gradle plugin
  • The IntelliJ Platform plugin
  • The sample code
  • The documentation

What already shipped

Describe the solution you'd like

A post on docs/blog/ covering:

  1. What it does — one gutter icon, two engines. Record and verify Paparazzi snapshots from the IDE the same way you already do Testify screenshots.
  2. The side-by-side comparisonSamples/Flix and Samples/Paparazzi are deliberately the same app, which is exactly the comparison a team evaluating both tools is trying to make. Cover where on-device and JVM rendering differ in fidelity, speed and setup cost.
  3. When to reach for which — honest guidance rather than advocacy.
  4. The positioning — Testify as the tooling and workflow layer over whichever screenshot engine a team picks, not a competitor to all of them.

Point 4 is the part worth stating publicly, because it also sets up #261 (Compose Preview testing), which extends the same pattern to a third engine.

Describe alternatives you've considered

  • Do nothing — the feature stays undiscovered. The IDE plugin is the only engine-agnostic part of Testify, and nobody knows it drives Paparazzi.
  • A docs page instead of a blog post — worth doing as well, but a docs page only reaches people already using Testify. The audience here is teams currently choosing between tools.

Additional context

The blog already has a working cadence and precedent (2023-09-23-gradle-managed-device.md, 2025-02-01-bitrise.md, 2026-08-20-samples-update.md), so there's no infrastructure cost.

Rough effort: ~1 day including screenshots of the gutter workflow.

Related: #278 (closed as delivered), #279, #261.

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