ADB commands

ADB (android debug bridge) is command line utility available in Android SDK to manage the emulators. Below are all the commands - 

Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.20

 -d - directs command to the only connected USB device                               returns an error if more than one USB device is present.

 -e - directs command to the only runing emulator.                                 returns an error if more than one emulator is running.

 -s  - directs command to the USB device or emulator with

the given serial number

 -p - simple product name like 'sooner', or

a relative/absolute path to a product out directory like 'out/target/product/sooner'.If -p is not specified, the ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT environment variable is used, which must                                  be an absolute path.

 devices - list all connected devices

device commands:

adb push  - copy file/dir to device

  adb pull - copy file/dir from device

  adb sync [ ]- copy host->device only if changed

                                 (see 'adb help all')

adb shell - run remote shell interactively

  adb shell - run remote shell command

  adb emu   - run emulator console command

  adb logcat [ ] - View device log

  adb forward - forward socket connections

                                 forward specs are one of:tcp:

                                   localabstract:

                                   localreserved:

                                   localfilesystem:

                                   dev:

                                   jdwp: (remote only)

adb jdwp - list PIDs of processeshosting a JDWP transport

adb install [-l] [-r] - push this package file to the device and install it

                                 ('-l' means forward-lock the app)

                                 ('-r' means reinstall the app, keeping its data)

adb uninstall [-k] - remove this app package from the device

                                 ('-k' means keep the data and cache directories)

  adb bugreport                - return all information from the device

                                 that should be included in a bug report.

  adb help                     - show this help message

  adb version                  - show version num

DATAOPTS:

 (no option)                   - don't touch the data partition

  -w                           - wipe the data partition

  -d                           - flash the data partition

scripting:

  adb wait-for-device          - block until device is online

  adb start-server             - ensure that there is a server running

  adb kill-server              - kill the server if it is running

  adb get-state                - prints: offline | bootloader | device

  adb get-product              - prints:

  adb get-serialno             - prints:

  adb status-window            - continuously print device status for a specified device

  adb remount                  - remounts the /system partition on the device read-write

networking:

  adb ppp [parameters]   - Run PPP over USB.

 Note: you should not automatically start a PDP connection.

  refers to the tty for PPP stream. Eg. dev:/dev/omap_csmi_tty1

 [parameters] - Eg. defaultroute debug dump local notty usepeerdns

adb sync notes: adb sync [ ]

  can be interpreted in several ways:

  - If is not specified, both /system and /data partitions will be updated.

  - If it is "system" or "data", only the corresponding partition

    is updated