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padb: A TUI for Android Debugging That Lives in Your Terminal

DEV Community·Pawel Piecuch·30 days ago
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#android#cli#python#tooling#device#wireless
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If you've spent any time doing Android development from the command line, you know the rhythm: adb devices , adb logcat , adb shell , repeat. It works, but it's friction — switching between windows, retyping device serials, manually grep-ing through logcat noise. padb is a Python-based terminal UI that wraps all of that into one interactive session. No GUI required, no Android Studio open in the background. What it is padb runs in your terminal and gives you three things at once: An interactive shell for ADB commands with history and autocompletion Live logcat with regex filtering and color-coded log levels, running in the bottom half of your screen A two-panel file commander (Norton Commander-style) for pushing and pulling files between your machine and the device It handles both USB and wireless devices, including Android 11+ wireless pairing.…

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