ADB Shell for Chrome will soon be a Google nerd’s best friend

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Android By Russell Holly Aug. 26, 2014 9:29 am
If there’s one tool every Android geek needs to know, its ADB. Once you decide to do much of anything to you phone, outside of regular daily use, the Android Debug Bridge is one of those things you should really take the time to understand.
ADB is one of the first things you install when “playing” with your phone, and the commands within the tool are shortly burned into memory. This week ADB has escaped the confines of the traditional desktop interface and has joined the browser, which among other things means it can be used on Chromebooks.
ADB Shell for Chrome does exactly what it sounds like it should do. You can execute ADB commands from your browser to a connected Android device. This means not only will Chromebook users have access to ADB in a way that is almost identical to the PC and Mac, but this system can be used to deploy web apps that perform many of the same tasks we would normally have to install a desktop client for.
The example Koush gives, and likely the motivation for writing this implementation in the first place, is the ability to write the desktop clients for his existing apps one time and have it work on everything running Chrome. Outside of this use case, it also means there’s now a quick way to install ADB from a trusted source when using something that isn’t your normal computer.
This is an interesting step forward for apps that interact with Android devices through ADB, and while it’s unlikely we will see this available on other browsers anytime soon, it is an impressive demonstration of the potential within the modern web browser.
The current implementation is available to test on the Nexus 5, but according to Koush it will be up on the Chrome Web Store soon and ready to be used by all.



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