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Help / Developing for Android
  • Overview
  • Installing the ADB drivers
  • Switch phone to developer mode
  • Enabling the USB debugging
  • Enable Wi-Fi debugging
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Overview
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop Android applications. To run the test of these applications on an Android phone, some operations must be performed:
Installing the ADB drivers
When the first connection is established between the phone and the development computer, Windows automatically finds the corresponding drivers.
  1. Specify that the location will be indicated manually.
  2. The drivers are found in installation directory of SDK ("usb_driver" directory). If this directory is not found, use sdk manager to install these drivers. For more details, see https://developer.android.com/studio/run/oem-usb.html
Switch phone to developer mode
To activate developer mode::
  1. On the phone, go to "Settings".
  2. Select "About phone".
  3. Select the "Software information" option.
  4. Tap "Build Number" multiple times to enable the developer mode.
Note: You may have to follow different steps, depending on the phone version and brand. For example, in a Samsung Galaxy phone, you must tap the version number multiple times in the "About phone" option to enable "Developer options". In any case, you can search for "<device name> USB debugging" on the Internet to find the appropriate procedure for the device you are using.
Note: On some devices, you need to select "Mass storage mode (MSC)" for the device to be detected.
Enabling the USB debugging
USB debugging must be enabled to run tests on the phone. If this operation is not performed, the phone may fail to be detected by WINDEV Mobile.
To enable USB debugging:
  1. On the phone, go to "Settings".
  2. Select the "Development option" option.
  3. Activate the "USB debugging" option.
New in SaaS
Enable Wi-Fi debugging
Wi-Fi debugging must be enabled to run tests on the phone via Wi-Fi.
To activate Wi-Fi debugging:
  1. Connect to a Wi-Fi network.
  2. On the phone, go to "Settings".
  3. Select the "Development option" option.
  4. Enable the "Wireless debugging" option. The information displayed must be transferred to the test screen of an Android application via a Wi-Fi connection. For more details, see Testing and debugging an application on an Android device.
Note: This feature is only available from WINDEV Suite SaaS 2025 - Update 2. For more details, see Using new features exclusive to WINDEV Suite SaaS 2025.
Minimum version required
  • Version 16
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Last update: 05/16/2025

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