Android Transfer Program

A small CLI application written in Rust to transfer files to and from Android devices because Android File Transfer sucks now (or at least last time I checked). At this point[^1], it's probably easier to maintain this project than to try to get Android File Transfer to work.

Currently, the program serves as a thin wrapper around the adb push and pull commands, and has a more sophisticated pull command that filters out files that were not modified after a supplied date[^2].

Commands

The following commands are available, and their respective use cases should be self explanatory:

• push_files <SOURCE_PATH> <DESTINATION_PATH> <DEVICE_NAME>
• pull_files <SOURCE_PATH> <DESTINATION_PATH> <DEVICE_NAME>
• pull_files_after_mod_date <SOURCE_PATH> <DESTINATION_PATH> <MOD_DATE> <DEVICE_NAME>

The MOD_DATE argument should be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. It's also possible to supply a more precise time, but doing so is left as an exercise to the reader[^3].

The DEVICE_NAME argument should be the id of the target android device, which can be found by running adb devices.

The --verbose flag can be added to any command to view all the adb output — try this to diagnose any program failures.

Dependencies:

• adb: Ensure that adb can be found via the $PATH variable.

[^1]: haha, get it?

[^2]: This was the original motivation behind this project, as the only way to do this was a long and ugly command that involved pipes and moderate bash scripting skills.

[^3]: See newerXY's t in the find man pages