Installing an Android in Linux (Ubuntu)

[anticpated]

The first thing you need to do is make sure USB Debugging is enabled on your device. Go to the Settings and look for Developer Options. If you can't see it, scroll down to About.

Press the text where is states the version of Android up to 7 times. A message should appear to say Developer Mode is now enabled.

Go back into the menu and select Developer Options and enable USB debugging. Otherwise the device will not be recognised when you plug in the USB cord.

Next within Linux you need to bring up a Terminal (Command line).

You don't need any special drivers -- all you need is to make your device known. A few simple steps can accomplish this when your device is connected via USB:

sudo lsusb
[...]
Bus 002 Device 054: ID 18d1:4e22 Google Inc. Nexus S (debug)

See the two hex values separated by a colon: 18d1:4e22 This is the manufacturerID:deviceID you need to tell the system to handle. So as root:

sudo su -
cd /etc/udev/rules.d
vi 51-android.rules

In this file, add a line (you can use the editor of your choice, of course -- my example uses vi)

# MyDeviceName
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="4e22", MODE="0666" GROUP="androiddev", SYMLINK+="android%n"

This example uses the values from above lsusb output -- you need to replace them by yours. Now, to let your changes take effect:

sudo service udev reload

Final step: Disconnect your device, and reconnect it. It should be recognized now.

These instructions are generic and should work across a host of distributions. What should happen is, your mobile should be usable as a drive.

For software updates this will depend on your handset.

[anticpated]

On a sidenote: 

For people using an iDevice you can try the below. 

libimobiledevice

There’s a piece of software available for Linux called libimobiledevice. This library – as the name implies – tells the computer how to communicate with iOS devices, like the iPhone and iPad.

If you’re running the most recent release of your favorite Linux distribution then libimobiledevice is most likely already installed. If you’re unsure whether you do actually have it installed or you know you don’t, you can install it easily with your respective package manager.

Ubuntu users would input the following command into Terminal: sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice

Fedora users should use: sudo yum install libimobiledevice.

If the package is already installed, the command will tell you so and exit. You can search “libimobiledevice” in your respective package manager for other Linux distributions.

Connect It!

[viridis]

Just one thing
"Press the text where is states the version of Android up to 7 times. A message should appear to say Developer Mode is now enabled."

Multi tapping "android version" will bring up the easter egg, developer mode is enabled by tapping "build number"

[anticpated]

Yes thank Viridis, I couldn't quite word that part properly.

[sheepdog]

Or if you're slightly more geeky and slightly diverging away the subject: put an android emulator on your pc using virtual box!

The article is a little old but it seems that Genymotion is a simpler, faster way to emulate Android for development. 

[anticpated]

Cool info.

Although that does go beyond the scope of the original topic, that's useful to know. Now the big thing unless somebody knows would be connecting an Android handset to Mac OS X.

[anticpated]

https://www.android.com/filetransfer/

[blissgirl]

@anticpated all gobbdy **bleep** to me

[anticpated]

Well....

To keep the topic on track.

This is a guide on how to use your Android Tablet/Phone with a Linux.

Fedora and Ubuntu although are both Linux are different types of distributions. Fedora is based on Red-Hat and Ubuntu is based n Debian which means slightly variations in commands and operating kernels. However they are the same in principle.Lets leave that point at that and not overall complicate things. Anybody who is using either of their products or indeed FreeBSD or any other Unix-like OS will be aware of this.

The whole point of this post was to demonstrate that is possible with a minimum of fuss to install your Android or indeed Apple based device within Linux. This does mean you still have a 3rd option and aren't confined to one of two operating systems to use your phone/tablet.

If security concerns you then one of those networking based operating systems should suffice and most stuff is free apart from enterprise licenses. Whilst not bulletproof, out of the box you are secured by default with no need for 3rd party software.

Anyway just installing some Windows 7 Updates......not fun.

[Toby]

Lovely to see more guides @anticpated , great job