Note:
All tips/commands
are written w.r.t Linux(Ubuntu) OS ...
1. Command to start Android AVD manager from commandline
$ android avd
2. Command to start Android SDK
manager from commandline
$ android sdk
3. An android emulator device is
always rooted. Remount /system partition on the device
$ adb remount
(or)
$ adb shell
# mount -o
rw,remount /system
note:
Android Debug
Bridge (adb) is a versatile command line tool that lets you communicate with an
emulator instance or connected Android-powered device.
4. To avoid the Out of memory
error when trying to copy the any file from host to device(guest) /system/bin,
you need to start the emulator manually with a large –partion-size argument:
$ emulator -avd MYNAME -partition-size 300
5. Android Development Tools on
host OS(Linux, Windows)
$ monitor => device monitor ( logcat, file_manager, push, pull)
$ lint =>
static analysis
$ proguard
=> code obfuscation (makes difficult to reverse engineer)
$ monkey =>
gui testing tool
6. Build android ANT projects
$ ant debug => debug build & create ,apk file
(This
creates your debug .apk file inside the project bin/ directory, named -debug.apk)
$ ant release
=> release build & create ,apk file
$ ant debug install
=> debug build & create .apk file and install in the active AVD
device
7. Install .apk file on the AVD
$ adb install
$ adb -s
emulator-5554 install path/to/your/app.apk
$ adb -d install
path/to/your/app.apk
(note: The
-d flag specifies that you want to use the attached device (in case you also
have an emulator running)
8. ADB commands
To know the android device API version =>
$ adb
shell getprop ro.build.version.release
To start a application from
commandline =>
$ adb shell am
start -n com.google.android.contacts/.ContactsActivity
To terminate the application =>
$ adb shell am kill
com.google.android.contacts
$ adb shell am
force-stop com.google.android.contacts
To start the android Service =>
$ adb shell am
startservice -n packageName/.ServiceClass
9. Debug native code on the
emulator (or) device using gdbclient(host), gdbserver(device)
a. First you need to run
gdbserver on the device =>
$ gdbserver :5039
/system/bin/executable
(note: The :5039 tells gdbserver
to listen on port 5039 on the localhost, which adb bridges from the host to the
device. executable represents the command to debug, a common one being runtime
-s which starts the entire system all running in a single process.)
b. Launch gdb on the desktop.
This can be done easily with the following command in the shell from which you
built =>
$ gdbclient
executable
ref:
10. Android Source code
a. Android GIT repositories - https://android.googlesource.com/
b. Android HAL - http://source.android.com/devices/reference/files.html
c. Android AOSP bionic source code - https://github.com/android/platform_bionic
d. Download Android AOSP source code - http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
e. Android source code - https://source.android.com/source/, https://github.com/android/platform_system_core
11. Android sample code
http://developer.android.com/tools/samples/index.html
https://developers.arcgis.com/android/sample-code/
http://androidexample.com/
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidSourceCode/article.html
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