ADB Friend is a tiny cli tool, which helps you to manage your Android device via ADB. Its features were mostly designed for developers, but it can be useful for everyone.
- Sync files from your computer to your phone
- Designed for test data, skipping existing files on device
- Configure device for tests
- Disable animations, Enable touches, ...
- Uninstall apps by pattern
- Packages command
- Apply the immersive flag to all packages matching glob, force-stop, clear app data & cache
- Extra tools
- adb-speed (Helps to identify sub-par cables)
The installation can be performed using Homebrew. First you'll require the custom tap:
brew tap mikepenz/tapNext, install the AdbFriend CLI:
brew install mikepenz/tap/adbfriendAlternatively, you can download prebuild binaries for release page.
ADB Friend is a command line tool, which can be used in a terminal.
# Get started with the `--help` command, to get information and an overview on the various features offered.
adbfriend --helpThe project uses shadow to package the tool in a fat-jar, and also do minimal minification.
./gradlew adbfriend-cli:shadowDistZip./gradlew adbfriend:exportLibraryDefinitions -PaboutLibraries.exportPath=src/jvmMain/composeResources/files/./gradlew adbfriend-cli:exportLibraryDefinitions -PaboutLibraries.exportPath=src/main/composeResources/files/This project uses the amazing adam library
from Malinskiy to interact with adb.
The CLI is set-up using the impressive clikt library
from ajalt.
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