Android comes with an input command-line tool that can simulate miscellaneous input events. To simulate a tap, use: input tap x y Run the input command remotely using adb shell: adb shell input tap x y Other options are: shell@m0:/ $ input input usage: input … input text <string> input keyevent <key code number or … Read more
You have essentially answered your own question while asking it. The root of the problem is that the emulator is not setup properly (evidenced by the system UI not loading). When Android can’t boot properly, it is likely to fail to start some system services (in this case, the package service). The solution is to … Read more
This helped me at the end: Quick guide: Download Google USB Driver Connect your device with Android Debugging enabled to your PC Open Device Manager of Windows from System Properties. Your device should appear under Other devices listed as something like Android ADB Interface or ‘Android Phone’ or similar. Right-click that and click on Update … Read more
You can do it with this: Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(“your command”); BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream())); Don’t forget to surround it with a try and catch statement. Edit: @Phix is right, ProcessBuilder would be better to use.
Execute on your computer adb backup -apk -shared -all This should hopefully create backup.ab with all of your apps, OS, and data. To restore, execute the following. adb restore backup.ab
Try this: adb shell dumpsys battery It gives all the battery details.
If you have installed EasyTether on OS X, the EasyTetherUSBEthernet.kext can prevent adb from communicating with your mobile device. If you use Easy Tether, BEFORE you plug in your phone run: sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/EasyTetherUSBEthernet.kext (or unplug/plug your phone in after) If you are done debugging and want to use EasyTether again, either restart or: sudo … Read more
As you said, the problem is not Eclipse losing contact with the Emulator, but ADB – the Android Debug Bridge – losing contact with it. As Eclipse uses ADB to communicate with the emulator when ADB is broken Eclipse can do nothing. To fix this stop the ADB server by running the following command: adb … Read more
Okay, I think I figured out enough of this to be useful. I will attempt to answer each of the questions I raised in my original post. Then I’ll share a few other things I’ve learned about how to use this effectively. Is there any way to avoid messing up the menu bar when at … Read more
Recently google updated ADB service. And added reverse command that should do the job. From reverse documentation: This implements the adb reverse feature, i.e. the ability to reverse socket connections from a device to the host. <forward-command> is one of the forwarding commands that are described above, as in: list-forward forward:<local>;<remote> forward:norebind:<local>;<remote> killforward-all killforward:<local> Note … Read more