Benjamin is a business consultant, coach, designer, musician, artist, and writer, living in the remote mountains of Vermont. He has 20+ years experience in tech, an educational background in the arts, ...

ADB, Android Debug Bridge, is a command-line utility included with Google's Android SDK. ADB can control your device over USB from a computer, copy files back and forth, install and uninstall apps, ...

Modifying your Android device usually requires you to have ADB tools installed. Without it, you wouldn’t have access to developer commands which are included in ...

January 11, 2017 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you’ve ever tried to root your Android phone or flash a ROM, you may have heard about ADB and/or fastboot.

Sideloading files to Wear OS usually requires complex ADB commands, but the new Wear APK Install app offers a simpler solution. The app creates a Wi-Fi file server ...

Dr. Root, I have adb set up now how do I use it? First of all, if don’t have adb and the Android SDK installed follow these instructions. Now, I know we all don’t share a love of adb, but seeing as it ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Back in the early releases of Jelly Bean, Google introduced a new command to adb called “sideload.” Using the ...

Stephen is an author at Android Police who covers how-to guides, features, and in-depth explainers on various topics. He joined the team in late 2021, bringing his strong technical background in ...

Android devices certainly have no dearth of backup and restore solutions, but most apps available on the market only support restoring apps one at a time. For those of you who are practically obsessed ...

Fire TV uses Android as its base OS, enabling access to ADB for a full Linux command line experience. Enabling ADB on Fire TV is straightforward through Developer Options to access a full command line ...