Connect to your android wirelessly

Introduction

This artical will show you how to connect to your android, so you can play with your android via adb¹.

Setup your environment

get Android SDK Platform Tools

download platform-tools directly or install it with your package manager:

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# arch
sudo pacman -Sy android-tools

enable debugging

first enable developer mode, for my op6, clicking the build number a bunch of times enables developer mode

after that, go to “System > Developer Options”, enable USB debugging and Wireless ADB debugging

Connect to your phone with USB

now if you have a USB cable, you can directly connect your android to your computer with that.

You can tell if device is connected via adb devices

Connect Wirelessly (no root required)

After connecting with usb, you can enable tcpip on your phone, then connect with that wirelessly:

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# enable tcpip
adb -s <device-serial> tcpip 5555
# get device ipv4 address
adb -s <device-serial> shell ip -f inet addr
# connect to it
adb connect <device-ip>:5555

Connect Wirelessly (require root, no usb)

If you have root access to you android, you can enable tcpip directly on your phone, then connect to it on the computer.
I use termux² to do these:

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su
setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555
stop adbd && start adbd
ip -f inet addr show wlan0