Initiate communication Two simple commands to start and stop ADB After connecting your phone to your computer, you can tell it you're ready to send commands with the adb start-server command.

The “adb sideload” commands allow people to install OTA (over-the-air) updates and other software onto their phone instead of waiting for the update or app to be rolled out by Google.

Samsung may have left out one of Marshmallow’s potentially more innovative features in adoptable storage, but that doesn’t mean the possibility of it isn’t buried beneath a couple of adb ...

Hidden beneath the surface in Android Q, there are a few ADB commands which allow us to mess around with the platform’s new Bubble feature.

If you're on Linux, you probably already know where the terminal app is. The screenshots in this post will be from Windows, but the ADB commands work exactly the same across all operating systems.

The Android Debug Bridge (adb) backup and restore commands will be deprecated and may be removed in a future Android release, as detailed in a commit merged into the Android Open Source Project ...

Luckily, the latest update for BetterBatteryStats added full support for unrooted phones via ADB commands. There's also better Oreo support and various bug fixes.

There is a full set of instructions listed by Google that start from turning on USB debugging and downloading Android’s Platform Tools, before getting into the adb commands.