Introduction

ADB (Android Debug Bridge) is a command line tool that used to communicate with an emulator instance or connected Android device.

Overview of ADB

A large portion of this topic was split out to http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell

Remarks

List of examples moved to http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell#t=201703130900469866621:

• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/3967/granting-revoking-api-23-permissions
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/3958/send-text-key-pressed-and-touch-events-to-android-device-via-adb
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/3959/list-packages
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/9559/recording-the-display
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/18032/open-developer-options
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/16607/set-date-time-via-adb
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/14524/changing-file-permissions-using-chmod-command
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/18033/generating-a-boot-complete-broadcast
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/3968/print-application-data
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/18323/view-external-secondary-storage-content
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/29140/adb-shell
• http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/android/9408/adb-shell/29141/kill-a-process-inside-an-android-device