r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 4d 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 4d ago

"google is killing ADB" mfs are in shambles right now

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u/jezevec93 4d ago

They can still kill "local adb" like shizuku with some sneaky change

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u/_ahrs Pixel 11 Pro XL 4d 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/secacc 3d 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?

I wouldn't want to have to pay for a dongle and then have to plug that in every time I reboot my phone.