The package name has been renamed from 'adb' to 'ppadb'

From version v0.2.1-dev, the package name has been renamed from 'adb' to 'ppadb' to avoid conflit with Google google/python-adb

Introduction

This is pure-python implementation of the ADB client.

You can use it to communicate with adb server (not the adb daemon on the device/emulator).

When you use adb command

Now you can use pure-python-adb to connect to adb server as adb command line

This package supports most of the adb command line tool's functionality.

1. adb devices
2. adb shell
3. adb forward
4. adb pull/push
5. adb install/uninstall

Requirements

Python 2.7+ / Python 3.6+

Installation

$pip install -U pure-python-adb

Examples

Connect to adb server and get the version

from ppadb.client import Client as AdbClient
# Default is "127.0.0.1" and 5037
client = AdbClient(host="127.0.0.1", port=5037)
print(client.version())

>>> 39

Connect to a device

from ppadb.client import Client as AdbClient
# Default is "127.0.0.1" and 5037
client = AdbClient(host="127.0.0.1", port=5037)
device = client.device("emulator-5554")

List all devices ( adb devices ) and install/uninstall an APK on all devices

from ppadb.client import Client as AdbClient

apk_path = "example.apk"

# Default is "127.0.0.1" and 5037
client = AdbClient(host="127.0.0.1", port=5037)
devices = client.devices()

for device in devices:
    device.install(apk_path)

# Check apk is installed
for device in devices:
    print(device.is_installed("example.package"))

# Uninstall
for device in devices:
    device.uninstall("example.package")

adb shell

from ppadb.client import Client as AdbClient
# Default is "127.0.0.1" and 5037
client = AdbClient(host="127.0.0.1", port=5037)
device = client.device("emulator-5554")
device.shell("echo hello world !")

def dump_logcat(connection):
    while True:
        data = connection.read(1024)
        if not data:
            break
        print(data.decode('utf-8'))

    connection.close()

from ppadb.client import Client as AdbClient
# Default is "127.0.0.1" and 5037
client = AdbClient(host="127.0.0.1", port=5037)
device = client.device("emulator-5554")
device.shell("logcat", handler=dump_logcat)

read logcat line by line

from ppadb.client import Client

def dump_logcat_by_line(connect):
    file_obj = connect.socket.makefile()
    for index in range(0, 10):
        print("Line {}: {}".format(index, file_obj.readline().strip()))

file_obj.close()
connect.close()

client = Client()
device = client.device("emulator-5554")
device.shell("logcat", handler=dump_logcat_by_line)

Screenshot

from ppadb.client import Client as AdbClient
client = AdbClient(host="127.0.0.1", port=5037)
device = client.device("emulator-5554")
result = device.screencap()
with open("screen.png", "wb") as fp:
    fp.write(result)

Push file or folder

from ppadb.client import Client as AdbClient
client = AdbClient(host="127.0.0.1", port=5037)
device = client.device("emulator-5554")

device.push("example.apk", "/sdcard/example.apk")

Pull

from ppadb.client import Client as AdbClient
client = AdbClient(host="127.0.0.1", port=5037)
device = client.device("emulator-5554")

device.shell("screencap -p /sdcard/screen.png")
device.pull("/sdcard/screen.png", "screen.png")

Connect to device

from ppadb.client import Client as AdbClient
client = AdbClient(host="127.0.0.1", port=5037)
client.remote_connect("172.20.0.1", 5555)

device = client.device("172.20.0.1:5555")

# Disconnect all devices
client.remote_disconnect()

##Disconnect 172.20.0.1
# client.remote_disconnect("172.20.0.1")
##Or
# client.remote_disconnect("172.20.0.1", 5555)

Enable debug logger

logging.getLogger("ppadb").setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

How to run test cases

Prepare

1. Install Docker
2. Install Docker Compose

pip install docker-compose

3. Modify test/conftest.py

Change the value of adb_host to the "emulator"

adb_host="emulator"

4. Run testcases

docker-compose up

Result

Starting purepythonadb_emulator_1 ... done
Recreating purepythonadb_python_environment_1 ... done
Attaching to purepythonadb_emulator_1, purepythonadb_python_environment_1
emulator_1            | + echo n
emulator_1            | + /home/user/android-sdk-linux/tools/bin/avdmanager create avd -k system-images;android-25;google_apis;x86 -n Docker -b x86 -g google_apis --device 8 --force
Parsing /home/user/android-sdk-linux/emulator/package.xmlParsing /home/user/android-sdk-linux/patcher/v4/package.xmlParsing /home/user/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/package.xmlParsing /home/user/android-sdk-linux/platforms/android-25/package.xmlParsing /home/user/android-sdk-linux/system-images/android-25/google_apis/x86/package.xmlParsing /home/user/android-sdk-linux/tools/package.xml+ echo hw.keyboard = true
emulator_1            | + adb start-server
emulator_1            | * daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
python_environment_1  | ============================= test session starts ==============================
python_environment_1  | platform linux -- Python 3.6.1, pytest-3.6.3, py-1.5.4, pluggy-0.6.0
python_environment_1  | rootdir: /code, inifile:
python_environment_1  | collected 27 items
python_environment_1  |
emulator_1            | * daemon started successfully
emulator_1            | + exec /usr/bin/supervisord
emulator_1            | /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/supervisor/options.py:298: UserWarning: Supervisord is running as root and it is searching for its configuration file in default locations (including its current working directory); you probably want to specify a "-c" argument specifying an absolute path to a configuration file for improved security.
emulator_1            |   'Supervisord is running as root and it is searching '
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:47,560 CRIT Supervisor running as root (no user in config file)
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:47,560 INFO Included extra file "/etc/supervisor/conf.d/supervisord.conf" during parsing
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:47,570 INFO RPC interface 'supervisor' initialized
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:47,570 CRIT Server 'unix_http_server' running without any HTTP authentication checking
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:47,570 INFO supervisord started with pid 1
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:48,573 INFO spawned: 'socat-5554' with pid 74
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:48,574 INFO spawned: 'socat-5555' with pid 75
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:48,576 INFO spawned: 'socat-5037' with pid 76
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:48,578 INFO spawned: 'novnc' with pid 77
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:48,579 INFO spawned: 'socat-9008' with pid 78
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:48,582 INFO spawned: 'emulator' with pid 80
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:49,607 INFO success: socat-5554 entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:49,607 INFO success: socat-5555 entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:49,607 INFO success: socat-5037 entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:49,607 INFO success: novnc entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:49,608 INFO success: socat-9008 entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
emulator_1            | 2018-07-07 17:19:49,608 INFO success: emulator entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
python_environment_1  | test/test_device.py ..............                                       [ 51%]
python_environment_1  | test/test_host.py ..                                                     [ 59%]
python_environment_1  | test/test_host_serial.py ........                                        [ 88%]
python_environment_1  | test/test_plugins.py ...                                                 [100%]
python_environment_1  |
python_environment_1  | ------------------ generated xml file: /code/test_result.xml -------------------
python_environment_1  | ========================= 27 passed in 119.15 seconds ==========================
purepythonadb_python_environment_1 exited with code 0
Aborting on container exit...
Stopping purepythonadb_emulator_1 ... done

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