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Debugging android device over the Internet

I am looking for a way to debug a device remotely over the Internet.

I am getting a lot of bug reports from my users which I can't even reproduce. It would be easy to solve them if I could debug the device over the Internet as if it were connected to my PC. Is this possible?

I heard about debugging over wifi in local network, maybe there is similar way to achieve it over the Internet?

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glodos Avatar asked Jun 16 '12 10:06

glodos


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2 Answers

It is possible to setup Android device for debugging over Internet, however it requires USB connection to enable it or root access on the device. In addition to that you will have to setup port forwarding to device to accept incoming ADB connections from the the Internet. It hardly can help unless users of your app are developers with great desire to cooperate.

You can find detailed instructions here: http://www.cleansoft.lv/debugging-android-applications-remotely/

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samfromlv Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 13:09

samfromlv


Steps to Follow:

  1. First In Android Settings Application go to About Device option.
    1. Click 9 times on Build Number option, so that you can unlock Developer Options setting.
    2. Now In you Setting's Application, you will have Developer Options enabled, go and click on it.
    3. set following options on : Stay Awake, USB Debugging and if you have Internet Adb option in menu set that also enabled if not then dont worry continue the steps.
    4. Now open your Android Studio and the application you want to run on the android device.
    5. In Android Studio, at bottom click on Terminal tab, Terminal window opens.
    6. Now through your terminal go to the directory where your Android SDK is stored
    7. In SDK directory go to platform-tools directory.
    8. Now if you list the files in the platform-tools you will see adb there.
    9. Running following Commands.

as an example.

adb connect <ip-address-of-your-device>:5555 

as an example:

adb connect 10.10.0.21:5555 

The terminal should show something like below

adb server is out of date. killing... *daemon started successfully* connected to 10.10.0.21:5555 

Now run shell command

adb shell 

you will get the prompt something like this, i my case i used android x86 device for debugging.

shell@x86_64:/$ 

Now if you go to the task bar in the android studio and click on Run options and then Run'app' you will be able to see the device as your Deployment Target.

Hope it helps !

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Shahbaz Ali Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 13:09

Shahbaz Ali