Connect Android Devices to WSL2 with WIFI or USB

wsl2_android_device_via_wifi_or_usb.md

Pre-requisites

• Your phone must have the developer mode unlocked
• You must unlock the USB debug

1 - Download the SDK

The last SDK is available in https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip

2 - Extract to any folder

Please do a favor to yourself and dont extract to root of your C drive. Using something like documents/code is enough

3 - Open the PowerShell and navigate to extracted folder, then run the server

As you didn't added the abd in the PATH, you must run the command with relative patch like:

./adb start-server

If everything is ok, it will prompt

* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully

4 - Connect using a TCP connection

./adb tcpip 5555

this will prompt a request in your Phone. Just accept it.

5 - Connect adb from WSL2

In your WSL Linux, run the command:

adb connect host:5555 # or the port u've selected in step 4

to find your phone ip:

• Open your phone wifi-settings
• Click on Advanced
• You will see your ip. It will be something like: 192.168.x.y

6 - Check you've successfully connected

adb devices

List of devices attached
192.168.0.15:5555       device

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To stop the adb server just run

./adb kill-server