Making Android debugging faster

If you want to make debugging faster you can setup android 4.4 from http://www.android-x86.org/download in a virtual machine (HyperV and VirtualBox both work for me) with a “Bridged” network setup.

Once installed, change the android “Screen Timeout” to “Never timeout” so it doesn’t go dark (Settings/Screen in the Android VM). Then to get it’s IP press ctrl+alt+f1 and type “ifconfig eth0”, note the ip address and press ctrl+alt+f7 to go back to the gui.

On the debugging host, type “c:\path\to\adb.exe connect IPHERE”, then it will show in Visual Studio as a target for ebugging.

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Is it faster than using the device connected via USB or using ADB Wireless?

That is going to depend on your hardware. Best way to find out is to compare