Purchase the fully updated Android Studio Dolphin Edition of this publication in eBook ($29.99) or Print ($49.99) formatĪndroid Studio Dolphin Essentials - Java Edition Print and eBook (PDF) editions contain 87 chapters and over 800 pagesĤ. You are reading a sample chapter from the Android Studio 1.x / Android 6 Edition book. The following command output indicates the presence of an AVD on the system but no physical devices: $ adb devices For example, a listing of currently active virtual or physical devices may be obtained using the devices command-line argument. Similarly, Android Studio also has a built-in client.Ī variety of tasks may be performed using the adb command-line tool. For example, a client is provided in the form of a command-line tool named adb located in the Android SDK platform-tools sub-directory. The ADB client can take a variety of forms. The ADB consists of a client, a server process running in the background on the development system and a daemon background process running in either AVDs or real Android devices such as phones and tablets. The primary purpose of the ADB is to facilitate interaction between a development system, in this case Android Studio, and both AVD emulators and physical Android devices for the purposes of running and debugging applications. An Overview of the Android Debug Bridge (ADB)

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