Installing android-tools in Fedora

fedora_android-tools-udev-rules.md

How to properly install android-tools in Fedora

Currently, it seems as if Fedora doesn't install udev-rules, to get this working, I've had to manually install them from a community project. I'm not very knowledgable in Linux, these are just the steps I had to do to get things working that I'd like to document.

Install android-tools

Install android-tools from DNF.

sudo dnf install android-tools

Install udev-rules

We'll be using this project.

Follow the instructions in the README of the project. Clone the repo, and run sudo ./install.sh from it.

Replug your devices

You might have to replug your devices, if that doesn't work, try rebooting, or even turning off your PC completely and out of power before turning on and replugging.

If you're trying to use ADB on a device that has USB restrictions, depending on the OS, you might have to replug with the device unlocked.

Also run adb kill-server.

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To use the rules, your user needs to be in the plugdev group:

sudo groupadd plugdev
sudo usermod -aG plugdev $USER

sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/android-tools/51-android.rules /etc/udev/rules.d

I think your coding agent forgot to add these

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/guide-use-adb-fastboot-on-fedora-for-installing-custom-android-os/101410

Doing this on Fedora 44 I had problems with wireless debugging, and it seems like the reason is that the android-tools package from fedora wasn't compiled with the mdns feature, so running adb mdns services or adb mdns check just threw errors. To get it to work I had to reinstall adb using google's binaries.

This is for a system-wide installation:

# remove fedora's binaries
sudo dnf remove android-tools

# download google's binaries
cd /tmp
wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-linux.zip
unzip platform-tools-latest-linux.zip
sudo mv platform-tools /opt/

# add binaries to system path
echo 'export PATH="/opt/platform-tools:$PATH"' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/android-tools.sh
source /etc/profile.d/android-tools.sh

I also had to enable mdns traffic through my firewall:

sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=mdns --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Hope this helps someone :)