Local Testing of Android Devices using PDA

  • Updated on Oct 28, 2025
  • Published on Mar 10, 2023
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Overview:

This documentation will help you with the steps to connect to android devices from your local machine using the PDA. Incase you haven't downloaded or installed the PDA on your system or need help with the installation please click here.

This feature allows you to connect an android Device virtually to your local machine and use it to debug from any IDE (Eclipse, Andoird Studio, XCode, etc).

Prerequisite

  • Users should have already downloaded and installed the PDA application on their system
  • Users should be registered on the pCloudy platform.
  • The ADB path will be detected automatically on the authentication screen when you start the PDA.
    But if its not detected automatically, you will have to enter the ADB path, refer to the example below.
    Example-: /Users/USERNAME/AppData/Local/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb

Steps to Use Android Tunnel

  1. Connect to your desired Android device.
  2. On the PDA Application, ensure that your User name, Access Key, Cloud URL, etc are filled in and click on the "Arrow button".
  3. On the PDA App Click on the "Wildnet" Tab and Click "Activate".
  4. Once the Wildnet is activated, the red dot on the tab will turn green, indicating that the Wildnet/Local Testing is now enabled.
  5. The user can go to the Android device that is connected on the plaform and click on "Local Testing" on the right panel.
  6. Click on "Enable Local Testing", you will see a notification once the local testing is enabled.
  7. Now you can connect to your local websites on the device by using the Keyboard function.