AndroidDeviceManager

Description

Java desktop app to manage multiple Android devices via adb

Features

• View all connected (and wireless) devices
• Populates device phone number, free space, IMEI, carrier (if available)
• Remote control selected devices (requires scrcpy)
• Capture screenshots of selected devices
• Drag and drop an apk to install on selected devices
• Drag and drop a file to copy to selected devices
• File Explorer / Browse filesystem of device
  • download and view folders/files
  • delete folders/files
  • root mode supported
• View Device Logs
  • NOTE: this is a work in progress!
• Restart selected devices
• Run user-defined adb commands
• Set and display custom properties on each device
• Start an adb shell session with selected devices
• View version of user-defined list of apps

Screenshots

Prerequisites

• adb - android debugging tools
• scrcpy - used to mirror a device (link)

Install Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Install adb

brew install --cask android-platform-tools

• add adb to PATH

echo 'export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile

Install scrcpy

brew install scrcpy

Install adb

download from here and extract archive

• move extracted platform-tools/ folder to your /Program Files/Android/
• add the location to your PATH
• test this by running “adb” in a command window

Install scrcpy

download and install from here

• make sure “scrcpy” in in PATH

Install adb

sudo apt-get install adb

Install scrcpy

see this link

Install Android Device Manager

I'm using jdeploy to package this as a native app for Mac/Windows/Linux. This also allows for automatic updates

To install open a terminal and run this command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://www.jdeploy.com/~android-device-manager/install.sh)"

See this page to download the installer directly

Build

Prerequisites

• Java SDK
  • min version 17; I'm using openjdk 22.0.1 2024-04-16
  • MacOSX -> Homebrew -> brew install openjdk
  • Linux - link
• Maven
  • MacOSX -> Homebrew -> brew install maven
  • Linux - link

Build

• sync this repo
  • git clone https://github.com/jpage4500/AndroidDeviceManager.git
• build
  • mvn compile
• run:
  • mvn exec:java

Use Cases

We want to manage a lot of Android devices and had previously used MDM (mobile device management) software such as AirDroid and ScaleFusion. These tools aren't free ($$) but more importantly trying to remote control/view an Android device was often a very slow and choppy experience.

So, instead we took a different approach. Instead of running MDM software on every individual Android device, we connected all of the devices to a single macbook laptop using multiple 16-port USB hubs. The Macbook is running Splashtop remote control software. I can now remote login and using Android Device Manager control all of the devices with very little to no lag.

Tested with 45 Android devices connected to 1 Macbook laptop (using multiple 16-port USB hubs)