Script containing useful adb commands which I have used in the past. There may be better ways to achieve the same thing and some may be obsolete now

adb_scripts.txt

--Find current activity
adb shell dumpsys window windows | grep "mFocusedApp"

--Find running activities
adb shell dumpsys activity activities | grep "run"


-- Find specfic exco running processes (good for fragments)
adb shell dumpsys activity com.excointouch


--Pull database to desktop
adb shell "run-as com.excointouch.core.par10823 chmod 666 /data/data/com.excointouch.core.par10823/databases/excocore.db"
adb pull /data/data/com.excointouch.core.par10823/databases/excocore .\Desktop\excocore.db
adb shell "run-as com.excointouch.core.par10823 chmod 600 /data/data/com.excointouch.core.par10823/databases/excocore.db"


--Verify signing
jarsigner -verify -verbose -certs .\{FILE_NAME}.apk | grep "X.509"



--Change emulator language/region (while running)
adb -e shell
setprop persist.sys.locale es-US;stop;sleep 5;start


--Pull Robotium files from emulator
adb pull "storage/sdcard/Pictures/Robotium"


--trigger a broadcast and deliver it to a component
adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED -c android.intent.category.HOME -n package_name/class_name


--Launch emulator
emulator -avd "Galaxy_Nexus_API_19" -verbose -dns-server 8.8.8.8


--Send reboot signal
adb shell
am broadcast -a android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED -c android.intent.category.HOME -n com.excointouch.core.par10823.receivers./RebootReceiver