I am rewritting a custom QGis application as a plugin for QGis. I am testing it by writting some new code, then deactivate/activate the plugin in the plugin manager, which seems to me a bit cumbersome. Is there a way to reload the plugin faster?
@Nathan W answer in comments is correct. You need to use the Plugin reloader. This useful plugin does exactly what your looking for.
Just go in the Plugins menu/Manage and install plugins/Not installed/Plugin Reloader.
It'll add a new menu and you'll be able to reload a plugin with F5 key
As a bonus in your workflow, you might be interested to create your own repository on a common server (to share your plugin internally) :
With an XML file looking like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<plugins>
<pyqgis_plugin version="1.0" name="My Plugin">
<description>this my personnal plugin</description>
<homepage>//mysrv/Plugins/</homepage>
<file_name>myplugin.zip</file_name>
<author_name>My and myself</author_name>
<download_url>//mysrv/Plugins/myplugin.zip</download_url>
<qgis_minimum_version>2.8</qgis_minimum_version>
<experimental>true</experimental>
</pyqgis_plugin>
</plugins>
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1For a second i thought Nathan made a joke there, because i couldn't find the Reloader plugin. In 2.16 it is listed under "experimental" and i had that ticked out in the listing. Thanks for the help! – U2ros Sep 14 '16 at 8:43
Plugin Reloaderplugin? – Nathan W Sep 14 '16 at 6:11