As I said, I abhor repetition, so I added a new nifty feature to the install-to-adb module I made.

Now it also has a command line tool, and you can push and launch apps from the command line without even having to write a custom script that uses the module (of course, you can still use the module code by requiring it).

In the video above, I’m using the tool to install the browser example from Justin D’Archangelo’s DNS-SD project — a pure JavaScript implementation of mDNS for Firefox OS. This way I don’t need to open WebIDE and install the app separately on each device. Instead I point the tool to the path of the app, and also tell it to launch it when it’s installed

Since I’m running the tool in the same directory as the app is, I don’t even need to specify its full path, I can just use a dot, which in UNIX based systems means “the current path”:

Being pragmatically lazy like this is amazing!

This is also the first time I write a command line tool with node so if there are weirdnesses feel free to file an issue, or (even better) tell me how to fix them.

I published the module on npm too. So if you need to install lots of apps to devices regularly it might be worth to install it globally (wowowow):

Source code: https://github.com/sole/install-to-adb

http://soledadpenades.com/2015/04/01/install-to-adb-with-command-line-tool/