you have missed the Fingerprint Certificate Authorization dialog in your phone when you connected it, try to change the USB mode to Media, or another different than the one you have in and then reconnect your device, or go to Developer Options -> Revoke USB Debugging and reconnect, watch for the dialog and click on … Read more
I prefer parsing results of dumpsys window windows over dumpsys activity adb shell dumpsys window windows | grep -E ‘mCurrentFocus|mFocusedApp’ Keyguard or Recent tasks list used to not show up as Activities but you were able to see them with mCurrentFocus. I have explained why in this answer.
According to adb help: adb root – restarts the adbd daemon with root permissions Which indeed resolved the issue for me.
By design user build of Android (that’s what you have on your phone until you unlock the bootloader and flash the phone with userdebug or eng software) restricts access to the Internal Storage – every app can only access its own files. Fortunately for software developers not willing to root their phones Google provides a … Read more
Use a fully-qualified path to the desktop (e.g., /home/mmurphy/Desktop). Example: adb pull sdcard/log.txt /home/mmurphy/Desktop
Using sdk/tools/emulator This will list all available avds emulator -list-avds
adb install -r is the closest you get, that is actually an update as it keeps the database and stored preferences. If you uninstall/re-install both the app database and preferences is deleted. What exactly are you trying to update about the app that -r option does not help you with ?
Add to PATH for every login Total control version: in your terminal, navigate to home directory cd create file .bash_profile touch .bash_profile open file with TextEdit open -e .bash_profile insert line into TextEdit export PATH=$PATH:/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/ save file and reload file source ~/.bash_profile check if adb was set into path adb version One liner version Echo … Read more
adb shell dumpsys package my.package | grep versionName as mentioned by @david and @Jeremy Fishman. This will be much quicker than: adb shell dumpsys | grep -A18 “Package \[my.package\]”
You can do this from within DDMS Monitor (and also Eclipse or Android Studio) with the regular expression input box and negative look-ahead assertions, for example I am excluding a lot of noise from my log with the following: tag:^(?!(WifiMulticast|WifiHW|MtpService|PushClient)) (The “tag:” isn’t part of the regular expression, but tells LogCat to only apply the … Read more