How to connect adb devices to linux container

Assuming that you have Ubuntu image pulled in docker , in case not!  you can download with command

docker pull ubuntu  

For more reference you can refer below link

 https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/pull/#pull-an-image-by-digest-immutable-identifier  

Once the image is downloaded, you can check like below

 docker images | grep ubuntu  

To run the image as container

 docker run -ti -d --privileged ubuntu  

Check container id

 docker ps  

Lets run the command inside container , using container id

 docker exec -ti 8991d0a7f32c /bin/bash  

Verify if lsusb is installed or not , lsusb is used to know the hardware devices attached to the host machine.

lsusb

As per above error , lsusb is not recognized , so we need to install it.

 apt-get update   

 apt-get install usbutils  

Check lsusb now



Great !! lsusb is now installed on your container

next step is to check java and install it in case it is not there in container

java -version  

Again Java is not installed, need to install it on container

 apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk  

Adding java to path

 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/bin 

Check java installation


 As Java is up and running now, We now need to proceed for android sdk tools installation

first we need to install wget to get the android sdk tools setup

 apt install wget  

 wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.2-linux.tgz  

 

 adb devices  

 apt-get install android-tools-adb  

Exit from container and commit the changes with your image_name

docker commit 8991d0a7f32c adb_demo





adb-kill server to kill any running instance in host machine , other wise adb devices will not be visisble in container



Start your image as container with mapping of Volume drive with -V options






Lets find the container id again
 


Executing some command on container



Verify if adb devices is detecting your android phone or not , i have connected an android device to my host machine





There we go!!

Your adb devices are now detected on container.