Termux: Using Rish ADB with DUMPSYS to determine the running state for a package

In this article we cover how to use Termux in combination with Rish to get extended properties about a package such as the last visible package, is a specific package visible; this could be use to trigger additional actions from Tasker when the running state chanages.

Tasker: Using Termux to manage application states with Rish ADB

This article demonstrates how to use Termux in combination with Tasker and Rish to manage application states; this allows users to enable or disable built-in applications directly from the device (when configured).

Disabling Digital Wellbeing on Android 13

The Digital wellbeing application from Google is baked in to Google derived Android 13 devices. If you don’t like the idea of your device usage data being even more closely monitored and disguised as being good for you this brief article will show you how to remove it without root.

Wear OS: Custom Ringtones using ADB

I’m really enjoying my TicWatch Pro 2020 Wear OS device; my only criticism which I noticed almost immediately was; that I am unable to easily provide a custom ringtone. By easily I mean there is no built-in method to define a custom ringtone.

Android: removing and managing built-in/bloatware applications with ADB

This article introduces the reader to how to uninstall packages from Android devices that cannot normally be uninstalled or disabled. I have provided some additional examples on how to utilise the ADB command line tool to perform other related package manager operations.