adb_client support

[axelkar]

As you said on Reddit, could you integrate adb_client into the project?

[SyedAhkam]

Aha yes, I'd love to but it seems they're missing support for the USB protocol so far which I feel would become a regression since we support it by default.

It seems they don't support installing apks from the client either.

How this could work is by using an experimental flag perhaps.

android --use-adb-client connect --port <custom_port> 192.168.29.1 # how to persist connection here without a daemon ??
android --use-adb-client shell
android --use-adb-client ... # other commands which could work similarly

or.. the worse method if we can't persist connections, you'd need to pass the host & port every single time you do an action

[axelkar]

they're missing support for the USB protocol

That's a major issue that I didn't notice! Feel free to keep this issue for tracking

or.. the worse method if we can't persist connections, you'd need to pass the host & port every single time you do an action

Wireless ADB actually advertises an mDNS service on _adb-tls-connect._tcp so you can automatically connect
... and now I noticed that the project is missing support for wireless ADB too

So there is no real ADB client for Rust (e.g. doesn't just forward calls to adbd)

[cocool97]

Hey !

I just found you talked about adb_client crate which I'm maintaining.

Support for USB is available since 2.0.0 and wireless ADB is also coming (currently in a PR).

I would be happy to help you use my crate if you find it worth it :)

[SyedAhkam]

Hi @cocool97, thats cool man. it makes me happy.

I've long been interested in migrating to adb_client so that we can break free from the requirement of having adb as a cli installed!

@cocool97 do you mind going through the commands that android-cli support and see if adb_client can support all of those use cases?

if everything seems fine, I'll start the process of migration in a new branch.

[cocool97]

Can you rather provide me this list ? I'll complete it afterwards !

[SyedAhkam]

Not too many atm.

https://android-cli.syed.world/ - if you go here, you can see the adb commands it wraps.

[cocool97]

Is android build related to ADB ? If yes what is it ?

What is the difference between launch and run ?

From what I see the only missing function would be install, but it can be done using push and a shell command ( this is what is done by ADB server). I'll add this command in the next few days, this is not a big deal.

I think that you can start now using this library on a branch to see if everything is OK for you, this shouldn't be hard to use if you already have functions running standard "ADB" commands.

[SyedAhkam]

Actually no, android build calls ./gradlew so that is out of scope here.

launch calls adb shell am start -n com.example.demo/com.example.test.MainActivity which if adb_client supports acquiring a shell - we're fine here.

run is out of scope too.

I might not be able to pick this up until the upcoming weekend so it is alright you can go ahead and implement the install command.

[cocool97]

Install command is now available in version v2.0.3 :)