Using ADB over Wifi for Android development

Sometimes we need to develop an android application without usb cable. For example, when a hardware keyboard is connected to our android device.

Luckily, you can use ADB over Wifi. I will show you how to do it.

Setting up to connect over wifi

First, you have to connect adb using USB cable. You have to restart the adb server listening on TCP by typing adb tcpip [port number]. The port number is 5555 by default. Of course, you can change it.

adb tcpip 5555

And then, you need to know the IP address of the device connected to Wifi. you can get the IP address by the ifconfig command in adb shell.

ifdreamlteks:/ $ ifconfig
......
wlan0     Link encap:UNSPEC  
          inet addr:192.168.0.11  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::968b:c1ff:fe2c:8242/64 Scope: Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:523143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:297970 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:677517008 TX bytes:54013350

Everything is ready. Let's connect to adb over Wifi. Remove the USB cable and enter the following command to connect to adb over Wifi.

// adb connect [ip address]:[port number]
adb connect 192.168.0.11:5555

Note that Your computer and the device have to be connected to the same Wifi.