Sunday, October 25, 2015

Setup Hardware Devices debugging for Android Studio on Ubuntu 15.10

This video show how to setup /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules in Ubuntu (behind VirtualBox) to enable hardware device debugging in Android Studio.


The development platform is 64-bit Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 running in VirtualBox, with Android Studio installed with Ubuntu Make (umake).

To enable hardware device debugging in Ubuntu, you have to create /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules file to add device IDs for your debugging devices. (refer: Android Developers Document Using Hardware Devices - Setting up a Device for Development)

Create /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules file with sudo right, add the line and save:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
where "18d1" is the USB Vendor ID for Google, Nexus 7 in my case.

Run the command:
$ sudo chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

This video show how to, behind VirtualBox.

5 comments:

  1. Sacro MacelloDecember 17, 2015 at 8:25 AM

    Hi, thank you for the post.
    I followed tour tut but my USB device isnnot detected in android studio, but detected by the system. I am using your same distro and followed also your other tut.

    ReplyDelete
  2. ErikDecember 17, 2015 at 2:10 PM

    hello Sacro Macello,

    What is your device? Have you fixed the idVendor?

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sacro MacelloDecember 20, 2015 at 3:52 AM

    Hi,
    Yes, i've done all, now my string it's:
    SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="22b8",ATTR{idProduct}=="2e82", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
    My phone is a Motorola Motog 2nd edition (2014).
    I've tried all the possible types of string in file 51-android.rules, every possible string found on different tuts but nothing shows to me when I type "adb devices"....

    ReplyDelete
  4. ErikDecember 20, 2015 at 5:54 AM

    Have you enable Developer Option on your phone?

    ReplyDelete
  5. Sacro MacelloDecember 21, 2015 at 1:34 AM

    Yes,
    I am developing applications for android for about 3 years, so i know what I have to enable to start debugging with android devices... I think at 99% it is a ubuntu problem!

    ReplyDelete