The first section is a soft introduction and glossary for some basic terms and ideas, explained in the simplest way I can manage.

Those who are not familiar with CLI, Shell, Processes, and the Client-Server Modelįor those in the first category, you may wish to skip the section titled: ' How to Work With The ADB.'įor those in the second category, I will assume you were like me as a Junior developer and know very little about CLIs, Shells, and the ADB.

Those who are familiar with CLI, Shell, Processes, and the Client-Server Model.

I would also like to mention that this article has been written with two kinds of individuals in mind: For a problem like that, Android Studio and Gradle are about as useful as a waterproof tea bag.

Rather it was my boot looping Nexus 6 which I desperately wanted to resurrect.

In this article, we will explore how you can use the ADB to gain some fine-grained control when you're installing, testing, diagnosing, and managing one or more devices and emulators.įor my first few years as a software developer, primarily working with the Android SDK, I had no idea of what the Android Debug Bridge (ADB/adb) was, what it did, or when to use it.Īmusingly, it was not some professional goal which motivated me to learn about it initially.

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