Source link: https://github.com/google/adb-sync

adb-sync

adb-sync is a tool to synchronize files between a PC and an Android device using the ADB (Android Debug Bridge).

Related Projects

Before getting used to this, please review this list of projects that are somehow related to adb-sync and may fulfill your needs better:

rsync is a file synchronization tool for local (including FUSE) file systems or SSH connections. This can be used even with Android devices if rooted or using an app like SSHelper.
adbfs is a FUSE file system that uses adb to communicate to the device. Requires a rooted device, though.
adbfs-rootless is a fork of adbfs that requires no root on the device. Does not play very well with rsync.
go-mtpfs is a FUSE file system to connect to Android devices via MTP. Due to MTP's restrictions, only a certain set of file extensions is supported. To store unsupported files, just add .txt! Requires no USB debugging mode.

Setup

Android Side

First you need to enable USB debugging mode. This allows authorized computers (on Android before 4.4.3 all computers) to perform possibly dangerous operations on your device. If you do not accept this risk, do not proceed and try using go-mtpfs instead!

On your Android device:

Go to the Settings app.
If there is no "Developer Options" menu:
- Select "About".
- Tap "Build Number" seven times.
- Go back.
Go to "Developer Options".
Enable "USB Debugging".

PC Side

Install the Android SDK (the stand-alone Android SDK "for an existing IDE" is sufficient). Alternatively, some Linux distributions come with a package named like "android-tools-adb" that contains the required tool.
Make sure "adb" is in your PATH. If you use a package from your Linux distribution, this should already be the case; if you used the SDK, you probably will have to add an entry to PATH in your ~/.profile file, log out and log back in.
git clone https://github.com/google/adb-sync
cd adb-sync
Copy or symlink the adb-sync script somewhere in your PATH. For example: cp adb-sync /usr/local/bin/

Usage

To get a full help, type:

adb-sync --help

To synchronize your music files from ~/Music to your device, type one of:

adb-sync ~/Music /sdcard adb-sync ~/Music/ /sdcard/Music

To synchronize your music files from ~/Music to your device, deleting files you removed from your PC, type one of:

adb-sync --delete ~/Music /sdcard adb-sync --delete ~/Music/ /sdcard/Music

To copy all downloads from your device to your PC, type:

adb-sync --reverse /sdcard/Download/ ~/Downloads

ADB Channel

This package also contains a separate tool called adb-channel, which is a convenience wrapper to connect a networking socket on the Android device to file descriptors on the PC side. It can even launch and shut down the given application automatically!

It is best used as a ProxyCommand for SSH (intall SSHelper first) using a configuration like:

Host sshhelper Port 2222 ProxyCommand adb-channel tcp:%p com.arachnoid.sshelper/.SSHelperActivity 1

After adding this to ~/.ssh/config, run ssh-copy-id sshhelper.

Congratulations! You can now use rsync, sshfs etc. to the host name sshhelper.

Contributing

Patches to this project are very welcome.

Before sending a patch or pull request, we ask you to fill out one of the Contributor License Agreements:

Disclaimer

This is not an official Google product.

Source link: https://github.com/google/adb-sync

Resources

WiFiUtils

WiFi Utils is a library that provides a set of convenience methods for managing WiFi State, WiFi Scan, and WiFi Connection to Hotspots. If you have ever worked with WifiManager you should know how painful it is to make a simple wifi network scan or even worse to connect to a hotspot programmatically. So that's what my new library is all about. To make it easier for me and hopefully for other developers as well to do those kind of tasks from Java code.

Wi-Fi

ScalingLayout

Scaling layout just like in Blinkist and Spotify app.

Layouts

MaterialTabsTemplate

MaterialTabsTemplate is solely created to reduce the burden of writing same boiler plate codes for Tab creation in Android.

IDE Plugins

android-pretty-lint

Pretty print the result of Android lint tool. Would work great when you run lint as part of continuous integration flow.

Static Analysis Tools

Spanner

This lib provides simple and fluent API for creating Android Spannable.

Spannable

Helper

An android library containing most of the helper classes every android developer needs.

The Problem

Every Android developer faces few problems while developing Android Apps. Listing down some of them, which I have faced everytime I create a new android project.

The problem of writing boilerplate code while creating Activities, Fragments is annoying.
Need of readymade methods which can come handy such as showing a toast, or showing a progress dialog or launching a new activity.
The problem of applying proper styles and themes to activities and handling those for pre-lollipop and post-lollipop.

What if we had a library which takes care of all these problems and let the developers concentrate on writing the actual business logic and create awesome functionalities.