Go Handy adb commands for Android

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View connected device (s)

Use the To view all connected devices and list their IDs.

ADB devices

If multiple devices is attached, use to adb -s DEVICE_ID target a specific device.

Install an application

Use install the command to install an APK, the optional -r argument reinstalls and keeps any data if the application is a Lready installed on the device.

Install -install -R ~/application.apk

Uninstall an application

ADB uninstall package_name# exampleadb Uninstall Com.growingwiththeweb.example

Start an activity

ADB shell am start package_name/activity_in_packageadb shell am start package_name/-N com.growingwiththeweb.example/-N com.growingwiththeweb.example/ Com.growingwiththeweb.example.MainActivity

Entering the device ' s shell

ADB shell

Take a screenshot

Sergei Shvetsov came up with a nice one liner so takes a screenshot with and shell screencap outputs it to a local directory using Perl. Checkouthis Blog for an explanation.

Perl ' s/\x0d\x0a/\x0a/g ' > Screen.png

Power button

This command sends the power button event to turn the device on or off.

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Unlock screen

This command sends the event, unlocks the lockscreen on the device. It can be combine with the power button command above to turn on and unlock the device.

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Print all installed Packages

ADB shell PM List packages-f

Logging

To show the log stream on your command line.

ADB logcat

Filter by TagName

ADB logcat---s TEST MYAPP

Filter by priority

To show logs of a specific priority warning and above.

" *:P riority "  "*:w"

Here is the priority levels:

• V-Verbose (Lowest priority)
• D-Debug
• I-Info
• W-Warning
• E-Error
• F-Fatal
• S-Silent (highest priority, on which nothing is ever printed)

Filter by TagName and priority

ADB logcat--s Test:w

Filter using grep

Alternatively the output of logcat can is piped to on grep a system that supports it.

grep " Search_term "  grep"search_term_1\| Search_term_2"grep"Exception "  grep " exception\| Error"

Clearing the logcatBuffer

Use the-to-clear the buffer to remove any old log data.

ADB logcat-c

Further reading

See more details on the official adb reference site.

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