What is adb?
adb stands for Android Debug Bridge. In short, it’s a tool that provides you the ability to manage your android device through a console on your computer. With adb, you can execute shell commands on your device & copy files to/from it.
Installing adb
adb is part of the Android SDK. Rather than rehash the install steps, I’m going to refer you to my rooting guide, which outlines the SDK install.
Using adb
Open a CMD Prompt (or terminal on linux/mac), and cd into your sdk directory/tools. Type adb, and it will output a list of available commands. There are a lot of options/commands, but I’ll outline a few of the most common here. Since android is linux, most of the commands you would expect are there when using the shell (ls, cd, cp, mv, rm, etc).
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