Wednesday, June 23, 2010

MADB FileListingService

mad-hatter-hatThe Managed Android Debug Bridge is coming along. I did some work on the FileListingService, but messed up the checkin and its now missing some files in the project. This will be fixed tomorrow. The FileListingService is the component that is responsible for ADB request that require file information. At the core, it executes an “ls –l” on the device and parses the return data for the information.

I have made some modifications to the Regex used to parse the return data so that both stock “ls” and “busybox ls” are supported. This means that Droid Explorer will be able to perform some operations on non-rooted devices once MADB is integrated in. The good news is, Droid Explorer + MADB will also be able to detect if busybox is installed on the device. It will also be able to display more detailed information, even more then ADB, when pushing or pulling a file to / from the device.

MADB gives more information to developers when executing remote commands when the file does not exist, or even if an “ls” is attempted on a directory does not exist. It does so by throwing a FileNotFoundException. Otherwise, the specified IShellOutputReceiver will be the way developers will know what is happening in the remote command.

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MADB FileListingService

mad-hatter-hatThe Managed Android Debug Bridge is coming along. I did some work on the FileListingService, but messed up the checkin and its now missing some files in the project. This will be fixed tomorrow. The FileListingService is the component that is responsible for ADB request that require file information. At the core, it executes an “ls –l” on the device and parses the return data for the information.

I have made some modifications to the Regex used to parse the return data so that both stock “ls” and “busybox ls” are supported. This means that Droid Explorer will be able to perform some operations on non-rooted devices once MADB is integrated in. The good news is, Droid Explorer + MADB will also be able to detect if busybox is installed on the device. It will also be able to display more detailed information, even more then ADB, when pushing or pulling a file to / from the device.

MADB gives more information to developers when executing remote commands when the file does not exist, or even if an “ls” is attempted on a directory does not exist. It does so by throwing a FileNotFoundException. Otherwise, the specified IShellOutputReceiver will be the way developers will know what is happening in the remote command.