The situation is this. I have an application written in vb.net. it consists or two parts. One on a PC and the other on a handheld windows mobile 6 device . The desktop program transfers a SQLServer compact database to and from the handheld device using activesync via USB. Potentially we want to look into having android handheld devices also supported by this application. Now I know I can use SQLite with .net. I know I can use ADB to push and pull data (and therefore the database files) to and from the device.
What I need to know is can I access ADB directly from VB.NET as an API or SDK rather than having to do it manually.
Unless of course I'm missing something and I can copy databases to and from the device in some other way?
thanks in anticipation
There's no direct API for that. We have a similar scenario, where the user syncs content (i.e. also the database) from a desktop client (in our case Java Swing based), which utilized adb manually and it's working fine so far.
In our java client, we'd call:
private static final String ADB_PUSH = "\"" + Utility.getWorkDir() + File.separator + "adb\" -s %s push \"%s\" %s";
/**
* Pushes a file to a connected device via ADB
* @param deviceId Device serial number
* @param from Path of source file (on PC)
* @param to Path of file destination (on device)
*/
public static void push(String deviceId, String from, String to) {
try {
String cmd = String.format(ADB_PUSH, deviceId, from, to);
System.out.println("adb push: " + cmd);
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
InputStream is = p.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println("adb: " + line);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}