Some Features Implementation

Hello adb_shell developers,

• 1. Interactive shell.

I would like to ask about adding interactive shell to adb_shell project. I think it will be good for people who does not want to send commands manually through device.shell().

device.interact()

result:

android@localhost # pwd
/sdcard
android@localhost #

• 2. Ability to install/uninstall .apk files on devices.

device.install('/path/to/apk')
# device.uninstall('bundle identifier')

• 3. Reboot device.

device.reboot()

Regards, Ivan Nikolsky (@enty8080)

P.S. I am using your python package and it is very good 😃, so it will be good to see this features.

[JeffLIrion]

This should accomplish reboot:

device._open(b'reboot:', transport_timeout_s, read_timeout_s, timeout_s)

Can you please confirm that it works.

[JeffLIrion]

OK, I’ll merge the corresponding pull request.

I don’t intend to implement items 1 and 2, as the scope of this package is to implement the ADB protocol, not to provide utilities and helper functions. I don’t want to clutter the AdbDevice and AdbDeviceAsync classes. That said, I think the following approach would be reasonable, if you’d like to contribute it.

1. Implement an AdbDeviceUtils class that looks like:

   class AdbDeviceUtils:
       def __init__(self, adb_device):
           self._adb_device = adb_device
   
       def install(self, apk, ...):
           self._adb_device.shell("<install command>", ...)
   

2. Add a property to the AdbDevice class:

   @property
   def utils(self):
       return AdbDeviceUtils(self)
   

Then you could do device.utils.install(...).

And do the same for the AdbDeviceAsync class.