replicant - a repl for adb

replicant is an interactive shell (a REPL) for adb, the Android Debug Bridge. It was originally based on Chris Wanstrath's excellent repl command line wrapper.

Overview

Working with the adb tool directly to target connected emulators and devices is verbose and cumbersome. replicant simplifies this process in a number of ways:

• allows working with adb in interactive mode
• allows fixing devices and package IDs for subsequent adb commands
• auto-detection of target package by project folder inspection
• command history and tab-completion via rlwrap (see below)
• smart log capturing and pretty printing based on selected device and package

Install

replicant requires Ruby 1.9 or newer and a UNIX/Linux compatible shell such as bash or zsh. For the best experience, I strongly recommend to install rlwrap to get command history and tab-completion, although it's not a requirement. replicant integrates with rlwrap automatically; it's sufficient for it to just be installed.

If all requirements are met, you can install replicant as a Ruby gem:

$ gem install replicant-adb

Contributing

Please hack on replicant and make it better and more feature complete! Here's a general list of guidelines you should follow:

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet.
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it.
• Fork the project.
• Start a feature branch to implement your bugfix or idea.
• Write an executable spec. See existing specs in the test/ folder for examples.
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution.

After checking out the project, change into the project dir and do

$ bundle install

to make sure all dependencies are installed. After making local changes, you can install locally using

$ rake install

And don't forget to regularly

$ rake test

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Matthias Kaeppler. See LICENSE.txt for further details.