#JADB# ADB client implemented in pure Java.
The Android Debug Bridge or ADB for short it a client-server architecture used to install android apps from an IDE or command line and to debug apps, etc.
The Android SDK Tools is available for the major platforms (Mac, Windows & Linux) and in there is a command line tool called adb that implements the ADB protocol.
This projects aims at providing an up to date implementation of the ADB protocol.
Usage cannot be simpler. Just create a JadbConnection and off you go.
JadbConnection jadb = new JadbConnection();
List<JadbDevice> devices = jadb.getDevices();
Make sure the adb server is running. You can start it by running adb once from the command line.
It's very easy to send and receive files from your android device, for example as below.
JadbDevice device = ...
device.pull(new RemoteFile("/path/to/file.txt"), new File("file.txt"));
Some high level operations such as installing and uninstalling packages are also available.
JadbDevice device = ...
new PackageManager(device).install(new File("/path/to/my.apk"));
An overview of the protocol can be found here: Overview
A list of the available commands that a ADB Server may accept can be found here: Services
Since version v1.1 Jadb support maven as a build system. Although this project is not presented in official apache maven repositories this library can be used as dependencies in your maven/gradle project with the help of jitpack. Оitpack is a system which parse github public repositories and make artifacts from them. You will just only need to add jitpack as a repository to let maven/gradle to search for artifacts in it
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>jitpack.io</id>
<url>https://jitpack.io</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
After that you will need to add actual dependency. Jitpack takes groupId, artifactId and version id from repository name, project name and tag ignoring actual values from pom.xml. So you need to write:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.vidstige</groupId>
<artifactId>jadb</artifactId>
<version>v1.1</version>
</dependency>
Samuel Carlsson samuel.carlsson@gmai.com