Written by Our team running AS Ladybug has to force quit ADB multiple times a day. We do plug / unplug a lot of USB devices as we have to test on them. ADB will be running 100% in Activity Monitor and be unresponsive. If you do adb devices it will just sit there until you cmd+c […]
Last year, I wrote about an extended adb script. The idea of the script is to make it really easy to issue an adb command even if there are multiple devices attached by presenting a chooser. For example, if I have two physical devices and an emulator and I want to use my deeplink alias, […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a script for making adb a little bit more interactive. The script makes the process of running an adb command much smoother if there are multiple devices attached by presenting a chooser. For example, when sending a deeplink: âžœ ~ deeplink https://zarah.dev Multiple devices found: 1 – R5CR7039LBJ […]
Android has a lot of tools for developers and one that has been around for as long as I can remember is Android Debug Bridge (adb). It allows you to issue commands to an attached device, such as installing an app or starting an Activity. If I want to test deeplinks, for example, I can […]
Simply invoke command line processes within Gradle Tasks Recently, I setup a system to automate the process of taking screenshots of an Android application. The system consisted of instrumentation tests, Gradle tasks, and a Fastlane command. The instrumentation tests were responsible for loading the different screens and capturing the screenshots. The Gradle tasks were responsible […]