Multiple adb connections over WiFi

Question

We are two people and want to connect to a android device from each respective notebook. When one person is connected, the other person gets a device is offline error.

Is it possible to connect via adb shell to a single android device from multiple machines?

Answer 1

There are 3 parts to adb:

1. daemon (runs on a device)
2. server (runs on a host PC)
3. client (usually runs on the same host PC as server)

As it currently stands, the daemon allows only 1 connection from a server at the time. It is the server part which does the multiplexing and allows multiple clients run multiple commands simultaneously.

In your case instead of every person trying to run their own server - let one person to run the server and the other one use that server remotely like I explained here.