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

Requirements

• Java SDK
  • min version 17; I'm using openjdk 22.0.1 2024-04-16
  • MacOSX -> Homebrew -> brew install openjdk
  • Linux - link
• adb
  • MacOSX -> homebrew -> brew cask install android-platform-tools
  • Linux -> sudo apt install adb fastboot
  • standalone adb tools can be found here
• scrcpy - mirror a connected Android device (https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy)
  • MacOSX -> homebrew -> brew install scrcpy
  • Linux -> see link
• make sure both adb and scrcpy are in the current PATH

Run

• Download the latest release from here: https://github.com/jpage4500/AndroidDeviceManager/releases
  • Mac OSX Users:
    • get the packaged .app version: AndroidDeviceManager-VERSION-OSX.zip, extract and move to /Applications folder
  • Windows/Linux Users:
    • get the .jar version: AndroidDeviceManager.jar
    • run via command-line: java -jar AndroidDeviceManager.jar

Build

Build Instructions

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.

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