Connect and Debug Android Device to PC over Wifi

 

You know already  that we can connect our Android Device to PC for testing app by turning on "USB Debug" option under developer settings.

 

However , if you are using windows , you may facing classic problem because you will need the right driver so it could be properly connected. Other consideration is whenever you connect your HH to PC it will always recharging your HH . Some people dislike this because this will make their HH warms up. And of course you will need a free USB port on  your PC to plug the USB Cable right?

 

Yeah, we have more simpler option to connect our HH to PC via Wifi.

Although we said over Wifi, its doesn’t necessarily requires internet connection at all for just connecting.

 

But here's the downside:

1. It will requires 3rd party tools IF you don’t want to connect this manually using manual setup to pair your device. :p . Honestly , this step can be done manually but this takes longer time.
2. Your HH should be ROOTed first

If you dislike , okay just get back to manual USB.

 

Important

In addition , because we are using CMD tool btw, make sure that you have installed Android SDK and configured the required path to be registered to your System. So we can type and run something like

 adb connect , adb device , monitor  …

commands

 

Enough …

 

There are many 3rd party apps there but I do recommend "Wifi ADB"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.wifiadb

(warn: I don’t affiliate with them et all. Just found this the best so far   )

 

Its 100% free, even though youll  see "Offers in app-purchase" its not that case. Its just to inform you that you can donate to support them as they stated.

Go to the app store and install that first.

 

Then ,.. Okay lets get started

 

Alert!!!

• You will do these step from two side: on your device and on your PC
• basically NO Internet connection is required to connect your HH via Wifi described in these steps

 

 

On your device :

First TURN ON your Hotspot

 

Then Open up Wifi ADB, tab the switch to On

 

You will get that message along with IP address to connect to.

On your computer run

 adb connect 192.xxx.xxx.xxx:5555

 

The address might be different across devices. So make sure you use the correct address given by Wifi ADB.

Okay now lets move to your PC

 

On your PC

TURN ON your Wifi, press that Wifi button on your Keyboard

Open up either CMD or directly via Run and type this

 adb connect [your address given by wifi adb]

 

Hell yeahhh congrats , now its connected to your PC :D

 

That's it. I prefer this method because IMHO this is more simpler that dealing with USB Debug .

 

Now to see this in action you can first check connected device and then

Catch Android Device screen using DDMS / Android Device Monitor