ADB (Android Debug Bridge) - how can it help you

A brief dive into the 'guts' of the ADB (Android Debug Bridge) with useful commands that will (I hope) make your development/debugging life easier

GDG Porto - Android Sessions - #4 Farfetch (Porto-Portugal)

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1. ADB – Android Debug Bridge “how can it help you” September 5, 2018
2. Hello! I AM FILIPE BAPTISTA - Android Developer (+6 Years) - Work @ WIT-Software since 2016 - Coffee lover - Traveler - And music addict 2
4. What is ADB ? ADB stands for Android Debug Bridge and basically is a command-line tool that lets you communicate with your Android device. Is included in the Android SDK Platform-Tools package. /android_sdk/platform-tools/ 4
7. 7 ADB Architecture Host Machine Device/Emulator ADB Client ADB Server ADB Daemon
10. 10 List attached devices adb devices
11. 11 Install APK’s adb install [-r] apk_to_install
12. 12 Uninstall APK’s adb uninstall package
13. 13 List installed applications adb shell pm list packages
14. 14 List installed applications adb shell pm list packages -3
15. 15 List installed applications adb shell pm list packages –s –i
16. 16 Get APK file path – method #1 adb shell pm list packages -f
17. 17 Get APK file path – method #2 adb shell pm path package
18. 18 Pull an APK adb pull remote_path local_path
19. 19 dumpsys adb shell dumpsys
20. 20 dumpsys: activity top adb shell dumpsys activity top
21. 21 dumpsys: activity top Component name Current state of the Activity (Resumed, Stopped or Finished) Current configuration in use (font scale, locale, screen density, screen orientation, etc)
22. 22 dumpsys: activity top The hierarchical structure of the View constituting the screen being displayed
23. 23 dumpsys: activity top See what fragments are active Active nested fragments Fragment current state Fragment current state
24. 24 Already sleeping?
25. 25 dumpsys – adding ‘steroids’
26. 26 dumpsys – adding ‘steroids’
27. 27 Find receivers by Intent Action adb shell cmd package query-receivers [--brief] –a intent_action
28. 28 Send broadcast Intent adb shell am broadcast –a intent_action [--es] extra_key extra_string_value –p package
29. 29 See scheduled alarms adb shell dumpsys alarm
30. 30 See scheduled alarms Action specified on the Intent Application package that created the alarm
31. 31 See scheduled alarms Represents the type of alarm (RTC_WAKEUP, RTC, ELAPSED_WAKEUP, ELAPSED) and corresponds to an integer value 0-3, respectively
32. 32 See scheduled alarms whenElapsed= refers to the time (approximately) of when the alarm will be triggered since the system started. when= date/time at which this alarm will be triggered
33. 33 See scheduled alarms Used in repeating alarms to specify the interval between repeats PendingIntent that will be triggered. Depending on whether the PendingIntent was instantiated using getService, getBroadcast or getActivity, the alarm will start a service, send a broadcast, or start one activity. See the AlarmManagerService file the AOSP repo for more details. (platform_frameworks_base/services/core/java/com/android/server/AlarmManagerService.java)
34. 34 You can find me at twitter.com/filipebatista medium.com/@filipe.batista github.com/filipebatista/gdgporto-meetup-adb