To use ADB with your Android device, you must enable a feature called "USB Debugging." Open your phone's app drawer, tap the Settings icon, and select "About Phone." Scroll all the way down and tap ...

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

ADB, or Android Debug Bridge, lets you control your Android smartphone or tablet via a command line interface. It’s supported on all desktop operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Google’s Fuchsia team has begun a new effort that would allow Fuchsia devices to be managed with the ADB tool, just like an Android phone. On Android today, developers and enthusiasts are able to ...

If you’re an Evil Customs Agent or other nefarious Three Letter Agency Person, you’re probably very interesting in getting data off people’s phones. Even if the screen is locked, there’s a way around ...

Researchers discovered a cryptocurrency mining botnet that uses the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Wi-Fi interface and SSH connections to hosts stored in the known_hosts list to spread to other devices.

Android’s developer options have a few handy tricks, including the ability to make Android’s animations go faster. However, you can only use 0.5 normal speed or nothing (unless you want to go slower).

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. There’s a ...