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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

devices


devices


file explorer


logs


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.

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