ADB Cheat Sheet

ADBCheatSheet.md

CONFIG

Include adb and other android tools on your path

In Users/hugomatilla.bash_profile add export PATH=$PATH:/Users/hugomatilla/Documents/AndroidSDKs/sdk/platform-tools export PATH=$PATH:/Users/hugomatilla/Documents/AndroidSDKs/sdk/tools

My own adb location

cd /Users/hugomatilla/Documents/AndroidSDKs/sdk/platform-tools

START

adb shell

SERVER

Kill server

adb kill-server

Start server

adb sart-server

FILES

Sends files to device

adb push <computer.file.path> /sdcard/<device.path>

Retreive files from device

adb pull /sdcard/<device.path> <computer.file.path> 

PACKAGES

List all packages

pm list packages

Uninstall

pm uninstall file.name

Install

pm install package.name

DEVICES

List all connected devices

adb devices

Clear data

pm clear package.name

INTENTS

am Command

URI

am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d https://github.com

Mime Type and and Extra string

am start -a "android.intent.action.SEND" --es "android.intent.extra.TEXT" "Hello World" -t "text/plain"

Activity

am start -n "your.application.packagename/path.to.the.Activity"

Activity with extras

am start -n "your.application.packagename/path.to.the.Activity" - e "key" "data"

Service

am startservice -n "com.example.application/.BackgroundService"

Broadcast with Action

am broadcast -a "android.intent.action.PACKAGE_FIRST_LAUNCH" -d "com.example.application"

Notification

stackoverflow

am broadcast -a com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE -n <YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME>/<YOUR_RECEIVER_NAME (in the manifest)> -e "<EXTRA_KEY_1>"
"<EXTRA_VALUE_1>" -e "<EXTRA_KEY_2>" "<EXTRA_VALUE_2>"

SQLITE

cd data/data/<your-package-name>/databases/

sqlite3 <your-db-name>.db

Commands

TABLES

.tables

SCHEMA

.schema tablename

QUERY

SELECT * FROM tablename;

HELP

.help

EMULATOR

Allow Computer Keyboard

for f in ~/.android/avd/*.avd/config.ini; do echo 'hw.keyboard=yes' >> "$f"; done