facebookarchive/fb-adb

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1146 stars · 115 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

fb-adb is a command-line tool for interacting with Android devices that acts as an improved replacement for adb, with a binary-clean remote shell, proper stream multiplexing, exit-status propagation, and root elevation support. It is written in C and forwards unknown commands to adb for compatibility.

Use cases

• run a remote shell on an Android device with proper stdout/stderr separation
• capture a screenshot from an Android device to a local file
• run commands as an app user with root elevation without re-escaping
• dump an app's sqlite database from a device
• get correct exit codes from commands run on Android devices
• keep binary data intact when piping over adb shell

When to choose

• you use adb shell daily and are frustrated by CRLF mangling, lost exit codes, or merged stdout/stderr
• you need pty allocation control and window-size propagation in an Android remote shell
• you need to run commands as a specific app user or elevate to root cleanly

When to avoid

• you only need basic adb functionality like install, logcat, or fastboot
• you need actively maintained tooling - the repo is archived with no recent releases
• you are on Windows without a build path or Homebrew

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli developer-tools terminal-ui android-tools developer-tools cli adb-replacement android-debugging remote-shell pty root-elevation command-line macos linux android

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