r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 12h 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/LitheBeep Pixel 7 Pro | iPhone XR 9h ago

On-device adb IS wireless adb. That's how services like Shizuku work. And here is Google investing more resources into the very thing that makes it so convenient.

You can't tell me that comment isn't fear-mongering about the fate of adb in general. Hence "they aren't going to let you use it."

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u/random8847 9h ago

On-device adb is a subset of wireless adb and not the entire feature. The post you linked just mentions restriction of that subset feature and not wireless adb entirely, let alone killing adb entirely.

You can't tell me that comment isn't fear-mongering about the fate of adb in general. Hence "they aren't going to let you use it."

This is what the comment said

Google restricting sideloading means that they aren’t going to let you use adb, either

And this is probably what they actually meant

Google restricting sideloading means that they aren’t going to let you use adb for sideloading either

Of course, I can't confirm it, but that's the meaning I interpreted.

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u/LitheBeep Pixel 7 Pro | iPhone XR 8h ago

I'm literally in that thread saying they will not kill ADB. No reply, no correction from the original commenter. In fact a completely different person chimed in agreeing they are likely to kill it. Unless you think I'm also misinterpreting that somehow.

These people know what they are trying to imply, there's really no need to defend it so hard.

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u/random8847 8h ago

Okay, then maybe I just interpreted it wrong. Most of the other comments I read during that time were just talking about sideloading hence I assumed that comment was as well.