Air-Adb: Debug your Android apps wireless with this Android Studio plugin

2 min readAug 16, 2019

Every Android developer knows you need to have your Android device connected via USB to debug your app. Not everyone knows that is it can be performed in a wireless way just knowing some adb commands. Just knowing the current ip of your device and executing these lines in a terminal.

adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb tcpip 5555
adb connect YOUR_DEVICE_IP:5555

Pretty easy but certainly can be a pain calling these lines every time you need them. That’s why I developed Air-Adb.

Originally it was only a bash script (Linux/OSX/Windows 10 with WSL installed)

felHR85/Air-Adb

A simple utiliy script that makes the process of setting up ADB over Wifi easier. Connect an Android Device to your…

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But it was obvious that the best way is integrating this script into Android Studio. That’s why I integrated it as a AndroidStudio/IntelliJ plugin.

felHR85/Air-Adb-Plugin

Linux, OS X, Windows 10 (WSL is needed) Android Studio or IntelliJ Install Air-Adb plugin from Jetbrains repository…

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You can download it from the standard Jetbrains plugin repository.

Air-Adb - Plugins | JetBrains

Air-Adb allows you to debug your Android apps via Wifi.

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Just go to Tools -> Enable Adb over wifi

Now you can disconnect your Android device and keep debugging. 😀