If you have followed our another article “Understanding Android Services with Example” you might be allready able to write a code to create android service and get it compiled. Once you install this service on to your android device using “adb install” command, you will need to start this service to execute the functionality written … Read more
Android’s system partition is by default mounted as read only, but if you are looking to modify some system files or applications, then if you try as is, you will not be able to do so due to restricted user permissions, hence first thing we need to do is mount the system partition as read/write … Read more
To install any android application as a system app, ( which can’t be uninstalled from settings ), first important this is, the device on which we need to install apk has to be a rooted device with all the necessary permissions. The user devices which we purchase from off-the shelves market are mostly “user” devices … Read more
Following are the adb shell commands for generating input events which can help us to browse the applications or go to menu using adb. Swipe Up $ adb shell input swipe 100 100 0 0 Swipe Horizontal $ adb shell input swipe 200 200 0 0 Go to Home Menu $ adb shell input keyevent … Read more
If you are developing/porting a new Linux kernel for some android platform, the first thing we need is a debug support. When we are porting very basic kernel, we might have UART for debugging purpose, but those have dependencies over limited UART cables and since we normally have more USB cables as those are required … Read more
When Android is booting ( Or you powered ON android first time or rebooted ), and when it has completed booting, Android sends a broadcast intent BOOT_COMPLETED to let all the applications, services know that now everything is setup and android booting has been completed, so we can start any other services , applications. If … Read more
Sometime when you are developing some code where you need to acquire a wakelock or when you are debugging some bug where you need to identify whether wakelock is the problem, you can choose to acquire or release the wakelock forcefully so your debugging on an issue becomes easier. Note: Following steps needs a root … Read more
This post details, how you can use some of our scripts to download all the information of android device. This will help you to debug and fix issues in Android platform. Note: These scripts are mostly used during development of Android devices. Hence its expected to have device with root enabled, but this also works … Read more
This posts lets you identify name of the activity from the installed application and then use the package name and activity name to start the applications Activity. List all the installed applications using $ adb shell pm list packages -f From this above command, you will get the path and apk name of application you … Read more
Connect your Android device over adb to get adb shell and check the default screen timeout value already set, $ adb shell settings get system screen_off_timeout 30000 As you can see above for our android device the default screen timeout was set to 30 sec i.e. 30 * 1000 ms, now we can change this … Read more
