Summit 2012

Adb is very nice and important tool. Every Android Builders uses adb command such as 'adb shell' and 'adb logcat'. But what does it mean 'adb kill-server' ? I studied the source code of adb. I share you how adb works and some tips I found. This session is for developers who want to know Android internal deeply. Tetsuyuki Kobayashi, Kyoto Microcomputer Tetsuyuki Kobayashi is 20+ years experienced engineer working on embedded system development. At the first 10 years he developed RTOS (the Real time OS) from scratch and used that in many projects such as measurement system, laser beam printer and digital multifunction copier. At the next 10 years he developed Java virtual machine for embedded system. He tuned up byte code interpreter and garbage collector, also developed prototype of JIT compiler. Now he belongs Kyoto Microcomputer, which is Japanese development tool vendor. He is working in gcc, linux, QEMU, Android and so on. Especially, he studies Android source code since it released at 2008.

Blog Post: http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/03/14/adb-android-debug-bridge-how-it-works-android-builder-summit-2012/
Source: http://video.linux.com/videos/adb-android-debug-bridge--how-it-works