Pushing without compiling

Questions & Answers
1

I got an android 2.2 device that often will throw me an error on the pushing process, after compiling the whole project. The compiling process does take about 3 minutes and whanever I get the error, I have to try again which sums linearly up on the time it takes to test on the device. I have no such issues with another android 3.1 device and all that is actually beyond the point:

Is there any way to skip the compiling step and just push / send the APK so I can hugely minimize this bottleneck?

2

Of course, since you have the Android SDK installed, you also have the Android Debug Bridge (adb.exe), which is somewhere in the platform-tools folder.

Just open the command line and type adb install YourGamesAPKFile.apk (or if it doesn’t work, adb install -r YourGamesAPKFile.apk) and adb will push it on the device.

3

Here you go, just put this in a C# script in Assets/Editor.

The first time it asks you for the locations of the android debug bridge exe and the apk file. These are stored in the PlayerPrefs for subsequent runs.

P.S.
I tried to post this as a comment, but the formatting was crap.

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;
using Debug = UnityEngine.Debug;

public class BuildPlayer : MonoBehaviour {
 [MenuItem("Build/Push To Android")]
 public static void PushToAndroid() {
 string apkLocation = PlayerPrefs.GetString("APK location");
 if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(apkLocation) || !File.Exists(apkLocation))
 apkLocation = EditorUtility.OpenFilePanel("Find APK", Environment.CurrentDirectory, "apk");
 if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(apkLocation) || !File.Exists(apkLocation)) {
 Debug.LogError("Cannot find .apk file.");
 return;
 }
 PlayerPrefs.SetString("APK location", apkLocation);

 string adbLocation = PlayerPrefs.GetString("Android debug bridge location");
 if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(apkLocation) || !File.Exists(adbLocation))
 adbLocation = EditorUtility.OpenFilePanel("Android debug bridge", Environment.CurrentDirectory, "exe");
 if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(apkLocation) || !File.Exists(adbLocation)) {
 Debug.LogError("Cannot find adb.exe.");
 return;
 }
 PlayerPrefs.SetString("Android debug bridge location", adbLocation);

 ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo {
 FileName = adbLocation,
 Arguments = string.Format("install -r \"{0}\"", apkLocation),
 WorkingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(adbLocation),
 };
 Process.Start(info);
 }
}
4

Neat script. Makes it really fast to test an apk-only build on the phone.

Has anyone made a script that installs an obb-expansion file as well?
I tried adding code for .obb to be handled the same as the apk-file, but that did not work out. ,Neat script. Makes it so fast to install an apk-only build.

How would I go about to install a build with an .obb-expansion file?
I tried adding an obb-file the same way as the .apk-file was handled, but that did not work. The obb file is disregarded.

Has anyone made a script to install both apk and obb files?

5

macOS fixed script (Unity 2019.4):

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics;

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;

public class AndroidAPKInstaller: MonoBehaviour
{
    [MenuItem("File/Install APK to Android")]
    public static void PushToAndroid()
    {
        string apkLocation = PlayerPrefs.GetString("APK location");
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(apkLocation) || !File.Exists(apkLocation))
        { 
            apkLocation = EditorUtility.OpenFilePanel(
                "Find APK", Environment.CurrentDirectory, "apk");
        }

        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(apkLocation) || !File.Exists(apkLocation))
        {
            UnityEngine.Debug.LogError("Cannot find .apk file.");

            return;
        }

        PlayerPrefs.SetString("APK location", apkLocation);

        string adbLocation = EditorPrefs.GetString("AndroidSdkRoot")
            + "/platform-tools/adb";

        string command = "install -r " + apkLocation;

        print($"{adbLocation} {command}");

        ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo
        {
            FileName = adbLocation,
            Arguments = command,
            WorkingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(adbLocation),
        };

        Process.Start(info);
    }
}