From the course: Android App Security: A Structured Approach to Pen Testing
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Introduction to Android Debug Bridge - Android Tutorial
From the course: Android App Security: A Structured Approach to Pen Testing
Introduction to Android Debug Bridge
- [Narrator] Let us start with the third domain of Android application pen testing, that is platform interaction testing. Under this, let's first understand what is a ADB or Android Debug Bridge. Android Debug Bridge is a useful tool to perform platform interaction and it has been used quite extensively by developers and testers to understand the runtime behavior of any Android application. Basically, it comes as a bundle with platform tools, the utility that we downloaded previously during lab setup and had set the environment variables for that as well. ADB basically enables us to check the application behavior during staging environment to see how it reacts to different types of inputs or stimuli within the Android OS or from internal system calls. In addition to ADB, we will also need to set up a physical device or in my case an emulator. The emulator that I'll be using is MEmu. So the steps are very simple and…
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