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Android shell get foreground app package name
This worked for me: com.facebook.katana Updated answer for Android Q as mCurrentFocus was no longer working for me:
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android adb shell script - how to pull all sharedpreferences
I created the following shell script name it pullsharedprefs.sh (or whatever you want) and from terminal run the command: shared_prefs will be pulled to the current working directory and named...
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execute adb shell input swipe command from apk
You can only execute /system/bin/input as the root or shell user; this will not work in an app. The command should not start with "adb shell" when running from the app. To run the command as root: You should also check...
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how do I download a large number of zip files with wget to a url
You need to get the redirect from bit.ly and then download all files. This is real ugly, but it worked: If you use the direct link, this will work:
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Bash for Android automation - Can't compare variable resulting from read\awk
You can use a case statement to get the density. This worked for me: Updated code using -le (less than or equal to): Output on my device:
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adb find phone partitions
You can use toybox find : Toybox is included with Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) and all later Android versions.
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