Android in depth

Before you can start developing for Android, the Android SDK is required. One of the tools provided within the Android SDK is the Android Debug Bridge aka ADB. With adb a debug connection is created with an Android device. This connection can be used for a various features: Getting information about all installed applications, collecting device logging, file management.. and many more. Keep reading to learn all about ADB. Add adb.exe to default path enviroments By default adb.exe is found within android_sdk/platform-tools/ . In order to use the adb tool the cmd path must be the same. As it's used that often, most people add it to PATH system variable. xda-developers how to add adb.exe to PATH variable Basic commands Before we can start using the adb commands, step 1 is to be able to start and stop the process service. adb start-server Command to launch the adb process service