Access to local Android devices
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- android, github-actions
- Domain
- ci-cd, devops, mobile-dev
Research direction
Look at how self-hosted runners are configured in the GitHub Copilot app codebase, particularly around resource permissions and ADB integration. Investigate existing Android testing workflows and cloud agent architectures. Determine what 'minimal permission runners for specified resources' entails and how local device access can be securely exposed to cloud agents.
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Description
Feature summary
I want to access local Android devices connected via ADB through cloud.
What problem are you trying to solve?
Developing on Android requires testing on actual hardware. I can do this in CLI via adb, but having a way to do so for cloud agents is nice.
I am thinking of connecting self-hosted runners, but setup is complex.
Accessing local resources for some test should be common to other dev workflows, so it would be nice if GitHub Copilot App can facilitate it.
Proposed solution
You already have self hosted runners for various OSs. Maybe the app can setup minimal permission runners for specified resouces.
Workflow impact
Android developers. Things like MS Teams integration also requies cloud agents, so enabling local resource access for cloud agents would help those.
Installation context
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Additional context
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- Stars
- 2.1k
- Forks
- 157
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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