¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

Serendipity is good. I’ve just discovered one can use adb over Wi-Fi. What does it mean? We (well, I) don’t need anymore Android apps just to transfer files between your computer and your device.

This has a common drawback, though: it is not very fast. So, if you want to transfer 1 GB of files to your device, you better arrange an USB cable. I won’t detail here how to do that, because a simple search with your favorite search engine will teach you that. However, here is a nice application I’ve found so far: to transfer (sync) files between a folder in your device and a folder in your PC.

The workflow is very simple: first you set up a target directory in your device (mine is ‘/storage/sdcard1/adbwifi’). Now, you’ll issue a command such as adbsync /home/thiago/tvseries/loremipsum/. This will copy everything from your ’loremipsum’ directory to /storage/sdcard1/adbwifi/loremipsum. Sounds nice?

You only have to issue this command, after enabling adb in your device and connecting it to your PC. That’s it. No need for cables, GUI, webapps, etc.

You’ll notice this adbsync command doesn’t exist natively. There is an adb sync, but this won’t do what you are expecting. So I created an ‘adbsync’ (bash) function/script and set it up as an alias. Here it is: (gist no longer available).