To use ADB with your Android device, you must enable a feature called "USB Debugging." Open your phone's app drawer, tap the Settings icon, and select "About Phone." Scroll all the way down and tap ...

If you’ve ever opened your brand-new Android phone and found a bunch of pre-installed apps you never asked for — and likely ...

Last week on our Android customization series, we dove into a deep and involved developer tool called ADB, or Android Debug Bridge. Our purpose last week was pretty simple, we were trying to hunt down ...

Last week on our Android customization series, we took a few moments to look at the built-in Android tools in an attempt to hunt down rogue apps eating up your battery. We continue that pursuit for ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Google’s Fuchsia team has begun a new effort that would allow Fuchsia devices to be managed with the ADB tool, just like an Android phone. On Android today, developers and enthusiasts are able to ...

Windows/Linux/Android (4.0+): Most Android backup tools require root, or run from your phone and save your data to your SD card. Simple ADB Backup is different. The app runs from and backs up your ...

There’s a severe vulnerability in the way that all versions of Android handle the restoration of backups that can allow an attacker to inject a malicious APK file into the backup archive. There’s a ...

Android Studio Bumblebee (v.2021.1.1) has now reached stable, giving developers new tools to design and build apps for Android. There are a lot of changes compared to the last big release in 2021.