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How To Debug App On Android Phone

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Tool for debugging Android-based devices

Android Debug Bridge
Android robot head.svg
Android Debug Bridge in GNOME terminal.png

Starting the adb server in GNOME Terminal, which then enumerates the devices. After that, a shell to the OnePlus 5 is opened to run the uname command.
Original author(s) Google
Stable release

31.0.3

Repository android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/modules/adb/
Written in C++
Operating system Windows, Linux, macOS
Included with Android SDK
Type Software development tool
License Apache License 2.0
Website developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb

The Android Debug Bridge (commonly abbreviated as adb) is a programming tool used for debugging Android-based devices using a USB or TCP connection. It consists of a client and server on the host PC, where the server connects to the daemon on the Android device. Available since 2007, features include a shell and the possibility to make backups. It has seen different security attacks and improvements to mitigate these.

Features [edit]

Features of adb include copying files from the host computer,[1] installing apps, viewing logcat output, getting a Unix shell, [2] and rebooting into Qualcomm EDL mode.[3] For example, Android applications can be saved by the command backup to a file, whose name is backup.ab by default.[4] It also includes support for the Java Debug Wire Protocol.[5] Some graphical interfaces have been made available.[6]

History [edit]

The first beta release of the Android SDK was in 2007.[7] Since 2017, Google made it possible to download ADB separately from the Android SDK.[8] In 2015, Microsoft released an Android emulator that is able to connect using ADB.[9] For Android 11, Google added ADB incremental installations.[10] In Android Studio 2.0, a 5x performance improvement was made for installing apps and pushing files through ADB.[11] For easier usage of Android Things, a wrapper was made around manual ADB commands.[12] In 2020, Wi-Fi ADB was integrated into Android Studio for macOS.[13] In Android 12, the adb backup command will be limited.[14]

Enablement [edit]

Host computer [edit]

For Windows, the Android SDK contains the adb.exe binary that can be extracted and installed, together with the fastboot software.[15] It has been recommended to add the folder containing the binaries to the PATH environment variable.[16]

On Ubuntu, ADB can be installed with the android-tools-adb package.[17] For Debian, it has been recommended to also install the android-sdk-platform-tools-common package next to the adb package, which installs the udev rules which makes it possible to run the tool without root permissions.[18]

Android device [edit]

In Android 4.2.2 or later (API level 17), a dialog is shown with an RSA fingerprint that the user needs to accept. This protects against computers exploiting the debugging mechanism without consent of the phone user.[19] Starting in Android 4.2, the developer settings are hidden by default. Pressing seven times on the build number in the about menu makes them visible to the user. After that, the USB debugging option can be enabled.[20] The procedure does differ for some Android vendors. Huawei requires entering a pincode before adb can be enabled.[21]

If the touchscreen of an Android device is broken, it can be possible to connect a mouse to the device using USB On-The-Go and enable USB debugging.[22] [21]

Architecture [edit]

ADB can be transported over USB or over the network through TCP. It uses a client-server architecture.[5]

Security [edit]

Up to Android 2.2, Android was vulnerable to the RageAgainstTheCage exploit. The ADB daemon did not check for the return value of the setuid system call when dropping privileges. The exploit forks processes until it fails due to the exhaustion of process identifiers. When the daemon crashes and restarts, it can't start a new process with dropped privileges and keeps running as root. Then adb provided a root shell.[23]

In 2017, a security vulnerability was disclosed that exploited ADB to take over the onboard modem. The attack required ADB to be already enabled and authorized, although some workarounds were available.[24] Various families of malware such as ADB.Miner, Ares, IPStorm, Fbot and Trinity have scanned the internet for public availability of the ADB interface and installed malware on those devices.[25] ADB can also been used to remove malware, by booting into safe mode and running the adb uninstall command.[26]

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • Android Debug Bridge - Android Developers
  • ADB and Fastboot guide, LineageOS
  • Android Debug Bridge, Arch Linux wiki
  • adb, Gentoo Linux wiki
  • Android Debug Bridge, Droid Wiki

How To Debug App On Android Phone

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