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How to install .apk file using adb on nixos?

I'm running nixos and I have a .apk file, i.e. an Android app.
There is the handy tool adb (Android Debug Bridge) and the command
adb install /path/to/app.apk
How do I get it to work on nixos?

The binary adb is in androidsdk. So either run
nix-env -i androidsdk
or add androidsdk to the list environment.systemPackages in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.
Your Android phone needs to be plugged in and have USB debugging enabled as documented on developer.android.com.
Simply running adb install ... didn't work for me. Instead I did
sudo adb start-server
adb install /path/to/app.apk
or
adb install /path/to/app.apk -r
for overwriting an already installed app.

Why am I getting Permission Denied when trying to push a Sqlite file to my rooted Android device?

So I have a local Sqlite file I am trying to push to my Rooted Android (Nexus 7 2013) device. Which I have confirmed is Rooted by tying adb shell, su and seeing the # displayed instead of $
I am trying to run the following command:
adb push D:\tfs\MyApp\MyDatabase.db3 /data/data/MyApp/files/MyDatabase.db3
But I keep getting
Failed to copy ...MyApp.. to ...MyApp...: Permission denied
I have searched the internet and found answers here and here and have come up with the following:
adb shell su -c "mount -o rw,remount /data"
adb shell su -c "chmod 777 /data"
But even after running these two above commands and running my Push Command I am still getting Permission Denied.
What am I doing wrong?

'adb push' cannot push to data/data/ directory.
However, you can do it by using a transfer station like this:
adb push D:\tfs\MyApp\MyDatabase.db3 ~/sdcard/MyDatabase.db3
adb shell
su
mv /sdcard/MyDatabase.db3 /data/data/MyApp/files/MyDatabase.db3
It works for me,good luck to you.

To push an APK file Eg:"MyApp" to /data/local/tmp/ from my local C:/Apps
adb push C:/Apps/MyApp /data/local/tmp/ is giving Permission Denied error
Steps to make this work (issue these commands in an order)
adb shell
su
chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/
exit
chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/
exit
Now if i give adb push, it worked
adb push C:/Apps/MyApp /data/local/tmp/

Simple solution:
Instead of:
.\adb.exe push c:/files-to-push.zip /mnt/sdcard/Download
I used:
.\adb.exe push c:/files-to-push.zip /sdcard/Download
The problem I had
After going to adb folder(in my case c:/adb)
I connected with:
.\adb.exe connect 127.0.0.1:58526
And then I tried to push this zip file c:/Games/pokemon.zip by running:
.\adb.exe push c:/Games/pokemon.zip /mnt/sdcard/Download
I got this error:
adb: error: stat failed when trying to push to /mnt/sdcard/Download: Permission denied
Explaining my solution:
I was trying to push files to a path that does not exist...
In my case I tried to push to /mnt/sdcard/Download
Then after running adb shell I got access to console
Finally just typed ls to check which folder I had there
In my case I saw there was no /mnt
So after that I tried to ls /sdcard and saw Download folder there...

Ok so heres my solution.
My phone was already Rooted but for some reason this isnt enough to do anything you want.
I had to go and download the apk onto my device named adbd insecure mentioned here which you can download on that thread or from the google play store. I then had to open the App on my device and click "Enable Insecure adbd" and I also clicked "Enable at boot"
After this running my normal command:
adb push D:\tfs\MyApp\MyDatabase.db3 /data/data/MyApp/files/MyDatabase.db3
worked

Run the commands below:
adb root
or
adb wait-for-device root && adb remount

ADB apk installation error "INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_URI"

I use ADB tool and I want to install apk on my emulator. So I use this command
adb install /home/jody/myexample.apk
and I got this error
2841 KB/s (242867 bytes in 0.083s)
pkg: apk
ver: /data/local/tmp/concolicexample.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_URI]
I search this error and from https://mobiledevstories.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/android-adb-install_failed_invalid_uri/ I found out I should The solution is to change permissions to directory but the problem is I don't know where is /data/local/tmp and where should I change permissions?
I should mention that I use genymotion emulator on Linux.
please help me. Sorry if this problem is really primitive. I just begin to use adb.

There are more people with your problem here:
Cannot install package on rooted device : INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_URI
I think that your device needs to be rooted for this to work, or you won't have sufficient rights. I don't have a rooted device here so don't remember if all steps are necessary:
So the /data/local/ directory is on the Android device, so using adb you need to access the device.
1) adb remount (This might not be necessary, this gives you more access rights to the device)
2) adb shell <- opens a shell on the device instead of your computer.
3) chmod 777 /data/local/
4) chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/
Hopefully it works for you!

Attach Android Device on Linux for Debugging

I am trying to connect my android phone (Qmobile) with Linux mint but its not appearing in eclipse.. Actually i was appearing as unknown device before but i tried some commands from internet it is disappeared now :( can anyone help me how to connect Android phone with Linux for debugging with eclipse.
i used following commands in terminal before:
adb kill-server
sudo adb start-server
sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules.
chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
Kindly Answer me if you can Thanks.

Must do adb kill-server and start-server everytime to recognize android device in Ubuntu

I'm developing android apps in eclipse and I upgraded recently from Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) to Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail).
In the previous Ubuntu version I had zero problems in recognizing my android device.In this new Ubuntu version I must do:
sudo adb kill-server
and
sudo adb start-server
in order to Ubuntu recognize my android device.
Everytime I restart my computer it appears question marks in eclipse when I try to debug an app, and I have to run these command lines everytime to make it work.
Anyone knows if there is a way to recognize my phone permantelly?

adb "flakiness" is a common problem, you have the right idea to start adb with root permissions.
If you have eclipse running and run it as two separate commands, there is a chance that eclipse will have tried to startup adb as a non-root user before you have run your start-server, so I recommend running in a single command line:
sudo adb kill-server && sudo adb start-server
Also you want to make sure you have only one copy of the sdk installed and that eclipse is using the same copy as is on your path at the command line.
Possibly could throw the run-as-root logic into an init script so that when you restart the computer it comes up as root - I haven't tried this though, always just "control-r, start-ser" from the command line =)

I had the same problem and solved it by
just change the owner of adb to root and restart then in future the problem won't happen again.
use this:
sudo chown root:root -R /opt/..../sdk/platform-tools/*
sudo /opt/..../sdk/platform-tools/adb kill-server
sudo /opt/..../sdk/platform-tools/adb start-server