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Android Debug Bridge, for future readers

[shermantanktop]

I always mentally converted it to:

Android De Bugger

Does that make sense? No. But that’s what I subliminally assumed it must mean.

[lubutu]

It does make sense — the Unix debugger has always been *db, with no bridges in sight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Debugger

[dhosek]

I was thinking Apple Desktop Bus. Obviously dating myself.

[greenyoda]

"adb" was also the name of the debugger in early versions of UNIX. I remember using it in Version 7:

https://www.unix.com/man-page/v7/1/adb/