Highlights
- Toggles Android Debug Bridge on or off from a home-screen widget.
- Shows the current ADB state directly on the widget face.
- Removes the need to open developer settings for each change.
- Limited to the ADB setting; provides no debugging tools of its own.
- Available for Android only.
About this application
ADBio is a home-screen widget for Android that turns Android Debug Bridge access on and off. Instead of opening the developer settings and scrolling to the USB debugging entry each time, the user taps the widget to switch the state and taps again to reverse it. The widget reflects the current state, so it also serves as an indicator of whether ADB is presently enabled.
The application is narrow in scope: it toggles a single system setting and does nothing else. There is no file transfer, no shell, and no device pairing — those tasks belong to the ADB client running on the connected computer. ADBio only governs whether the Android side accepts such a connection.
Because it changes a protected system setting, ADBio depends on having sufficient privileges on the device to write that setting; on installations where it does not, the toggle will not take effect. It is published for Android only, under GPL-3.0-only, and has no desktop counterpart.
Where to get it
Android
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From the publisher
Package identifier:
io.github.yoshi1123.adbiov1.0c269 KBreleased 04/01/2022
SHA-256 from the manifest published by F-Droid, compared on 08/04/2026
46152474065cf2d9ca71f7a0ebd07c1913261cb64c2241924010e9999d1070b1
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