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android-tools - Android platform tools (adb, fastboot)
- Description:
The Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is used to:
- keep track of all Android devices and emulators instances
connected to or running on a given host developer machine
- implement various control commands (e.g. "adb shell", "adb pull",
etc.) for the benefit of clients (command-line users, or helper
programs like DDMS). These commands are what is called a 'service'
in ADB.
Fastboot is used to manipulate the flash partitions of the Android
phone. It can also boot the phone using a kernel image or root
filesystem image which reside on the host machine rather than in the
phone flash. In order to use it, it is important to understand the
flash partition layout for the phone.
The fastboot program works in conjunction with firmware on the phone
to read and write the flash partitions. It needs the same USB device
setup between the host and the target phone as adb.
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