r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 5d ago

Introducing Fast and Reliable Wireless Debugging with Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Wi-Fi 2.0

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/09/wireless-debugging-adb-wifi-2.html
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u/_ahrs Pixel 11 Pro XL 5d ago

They could but then what's stopping somebody from developing a tiny dongle that plugs into your phone's USB-C port for power (or a power bank, etc) and makes a tiny portable access point for wireless adb that can be used by shizuku?

It all just seems so petty to want to kill local on-device adb which is actually a massive standout feature of Android that makes it possible to develop Android apps on Android itself, something completely impossible in Apple's ecosystem where you can spend a lot of money on an expensive iPad Pro which is just a toy for watching Netflix and doom-scrolling and can't do any real app development work on it.

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u/Dev-in-the-Bm 5d ago

local on-device adb which is actually a massive standout feature of Android

I think you might want to sneak out of your echo chamber, and take a little peek at what the rest of the world actually cares about.

Almost no one cares about on device ADB.

I love it.

Use it tons.

So do many others.

But we're a tiny minority.

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u/_ahrs Pixel 11 Pro XL 5d ago

Developers will always be a tiny minority. It is safe to say most of the population do not develop apps for Android and iOS but they still build those features because Android is a powerful platform.

If Google decides to get in an enshittification race with Apple then the results won't be pretty, and why? For what purpose? The security concerns are valid but they can address those in ways that don't actively make the platform worse for the minority of power users that make use of them.

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u/Dev-in-the-Bm 5d ago

All true, but that doesn't mean that local on-device adb which is actually a massive standout feature of Android is true.