T he Android Debug Bridge (ADB) allows you to wirelessly issue commands to your phone, removing the need for cables. Wireless ...

After you setup ADB in last week's Android customization, we figured we would put it to more use, here is how to take a screen recording using the ADB shell commands. By Jonathan Feist April 9, 2015 ...

Millions of Android phones, tablets, TVs and set-top boxes are threatened by a botnet malware, but there's a sure-fire way to avoid infection.

In our pursuit for better battery life, our Android customization post this week seeks to use the ADB logcat to hunt down problematic apps that are eating up your battery.

There’s a severe vulnerability in the way that all versions of Android handle the restoration of backups that can allow an attacker to inject a malicious APK file into the backup archive.

If Google will, in the end, remove adb backup/restore from Android, it will force users who have relied on the free tool to backup their non-rooted smartphones and tablets [1, 2] to switch to ...

If you’ve ever tried to root your Android phone or flash a ROM, you may have heard about ADB and/or fastboot. These two tools are surprisingly powerful, but can be a bit overly complex to ...

Thanks to the work of two Googlers, there are now direct links to the approximately 3.5MB platform-tools folder that includes adb, fastboot, and several other utilities. Advertisement - scroll for ...

"Overall, we believe malicious code based on the Android system ADB debug interface is now actively spreading in worms and infected over 5,000 devices in 24 hours," the team says.

adb shell [command] Function: Open or run commands in a terminal on the host Android device. We love the terminal here at Lifehacker. There are so many great things you can do with it. Most of us ...