A utility that leverages Android Debug Bridge to make life a little easier.
For the developer who spends a lot of time on the commandline, ADB can be a bit cumbersome to use. This helps make day-to-day life easier by reducing friction in the following areas for the app that's being developed:
- clearing an app's cache
- deleting an app
- working with multiple devices
- simultaneous installs
- simultaneous deletes
- setting and active device
- aliases for devices
When you install an APK it sets common sense defaults including, the default APK file name, the default package name and the default device.
- git clone https://github.com/gmale/android-ado.git
- TODO: complete this list
$ ado -i
enters interactive mode, which is great for multiple actions. In this mode, pressing single keys will intiate common actions.
p - set the default package name. auto-complete to select the right one.
a - set the default APK
c - clear cache. auto-complete to select the package to clear
C - clear cache. uses the default package.
i - install. brings up the list of APKs in the build/outputs/apk folder. From there, type the number of the corresponding APK to install
I - install the default APK
$ ado install
installs the defualt APK onto the default device
// TODO: reword this language borrowed from Hub (https://github.com/github/hub)
Using ado feels best when it's aliased as adb. This is not dangerous; your
normal adb commands will all work. ado merely adds some sugar.
ado alias displays instructions for the current shell. With the -s flag, it
outputs a script suitable for eval.
You should place this command in your .bash_profile or .zshrc or other startup script:
eval "$(hub alias -s)"