How to Use Android ADB Command Line Tool | All About Web & Mobile Application Development

How to Use Android ADB Command Line Tool | All About Web & Mobile Application Development: Android Debug Bridge  (adb) is a tool that lets you manage the state of an emulator instance or Android phone. ADB is bundled with Android SDK package that can be downloaded from Android SDK download page . This tool is usefull for communicating with Android phone such as install application, copy files from/to device and perform some linux shell commands.

How to Install

• Download and install Java SDK  (Ex: jdk-6u20-windows-i586.exe)
• Download Android SDK  package (Ex: android-sdk_r06-windows.zip)
• Extract SDK package into anywhere on your drive (Ex: D:\android-sdk-windows)

Phone Setup

In order to use ADB, you have to enable USB Debugging option in  phone settings (Settings->Applications->Development)

How to Use

• Connect the phone to your pc/notebook usb port
• Run Windows command line tool (cmd) and go to D:\android-sdk-windows\tool

Update!!

New Android SDK puts adb executable file on \platform-tools directory instead of tool. So the path should be D:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools

Usefull Commands

1. Check connected phone

Syntax: adb devices

2. Login to Android shell

Syntax: adb shell

Note:

If you get ‘#’ after typing adb shell, you are already get root access on the phone, no need to type su. Otherwise if you get ‘$’ , type ’su’ to get root access (only for rooted device)."cp
Copy file or directory

Syntax: cp [options] source dest

Note:

To copy or delete files in Android root directories you have to change the directory access mode to ‘read and write (rw)’ using command: remount rw

Example:

#remount rw

#cp /sdcard/libsec-ril.so /system/lib

#remount ro"

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