Android Toolbox
A terminal app for doing things to Android devices without googling adb flags every time.
At work I plug a lot of Android devices into my laptop. Tablets that live in truck cabs, test phones, emulators. And every time I needed something slightly unusual, I ended up googling the same adb commands again.
So I wrote a toolbox. It's a TUI built with Bubble Tea: actions on the left, output on the right. It downloads its own copies of adb and scrcpy, so it works on a fresh Windows laptop without anyone installing the Android SDK first. Honestly, that part was more work than the UI.
What I like about it:
- Actions live in a plain
actions.yaml. A new action is a few lines, no Go needed. - You can describe an action in plain English and it writes the YAML for you through the Claude Code CLI. I was skeptical. It's actually handy.
- Emulator controls for faking GPS positions and battery levels, which you need a lot when you work on navigation.
- It reads APK metadata without any external tools.
- English and German UI.
It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, arm64 included. Getting unsigned binaries past Gatekeeper and SmartScreen deserves its own blog post.