The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. For Android app developers, ADB is an indispensable tool for debugging applications. With the ability to generate logs, ...

The Android Debug Bridge (adb) backup and restore commands may be removed in a future Android release, as detailed in a commit merged into the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) git repository. adb is ...

For many users, Android Debug Bridge (ADB) probably isn’t a familiar term when talking about Android smartphones. But spend long enough dabbling in the ecosystem’s more advanced capabilities, and ...

If you are a mobile app developer, then you certainly know about ADB – the Android Debug Bridge. However, normal users have found uses for it too – some use it for things that the normal UI doesn’t ...

Google platform engineers are discussing and evaluating restricting the Android Debug Bridge daemon (adbd) to external interfaces, such as Wi-Fi (wlan0). Blocking “localhost loopback” addresses would ...

It's time for your PC and your phone to become friends.

Google’s Fuchsia team has begun a new effort that would allow Fuchsia devices to be managed with the ADB tool, just like an Android phone. On Android today, developers and enthusiasts are able to ...