(This is a post I made on a Coursera forum, 2015-06-11. Maybe useful to someone.)
I'm running AndroidStudio on Ubuntu 14.04LTS, and my phone's a Huawei Ascend G600 running Android 4.0.4.
I wanted to hook my phone up with AndroidStudio, via USB, to avoid using the emulator as much as possible. But it turns out that adb fails to look up a valid device ID for my phone:
$ adb devices List of devices attached ???????????? device
So, adb does see a device there - and it does interact properly with it, sending commands, running a shell, etc., as it should. But for some reason it can't return a valid device ID for it. Which, in turn, prevents AndroidStudio talking to my phone at all. So I figured I'd be stuck with using the emulator after all.
The day after (hrmpf!) submitting my ModernArtUI project, I had some time to kill... so I went and read a bit more about adb. It turns out that, starting with a USB connection, you can switch to a Wi-Fi connection that AndroidStudio is able to interact with:
$ adb usb restarting in USB mode $ adb devices List of devices attached ???????????? device $ adb tcpip 5555 restarting in TCP mode port: 5555
Next find the phone's IP address via Settings → About → Status → IP address, and then...
$ adb connect IP_ADDRESS connected to IP_ADDRESS:5555 $ adb devices List of devices attached ???????????? device IP_ADDRESS:5555 device
At this point AndroidStudio lists my Huawei G600 in its "Choose a running device" dialog, and it's soooo much nicer than the emulator :^)
When finished, disconnect with:
$ adb disconnect IP_ADDRESS
I guess I'm not the only one who has/will run into this problem, so...
