Facebook Inc. has become more than just a social media company over the last few years as the company started developing new technologies to solve its own unique challenges. Some of these innovations ...

William J. Francis recently learned you can run the Android Debug Bridge over TCP. Learn how easy it is to do. As an Android developer, I’m spoiled. I depend on my IDE, logcat, and most of all, the ...

If you’re an Evil Customs Agent or other nefarious Three Letter Agency Person, you’re probably very interesting in getting data off people’s phones. Even if the screen is locked, there’s a way around ...

Developers often struggle with quickly discovering problems in large native code bases and figuring out how to fix them, particularly when developing for Android. Facebook might have a solution. Today ...

Hidden away in your Android phone's developer settings is a powerful feature called USB debugging. It's a special mode that opens a direct line of communication between your smartphone and a computer, ...

Google is overhaulng wireless debugging in Android 17 with ADB Wi-Fi 2.0, fixing broken connections and pairing loops.

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

The security community raised the alarm regarding a serious issue last week —that of Android devices shipping with their debug port open to remote connections. The issue is not new, being first ...

Android development has long only been possible on Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. That changed with the release of Chrome OS 69 and Linux app support. Here’s how you can start developing Android ...