helium shell script with normal system locations for 'adb'

helium-desktop.sh

#!/bin/sh
# start helium server on android device - see http://www.clockworkmod.com/carbon for more details

# set -x
# try normal system locations before the local binary
unset adb
for i in /usr/bin /usr/local/bin "$(/usr/bin/dirname $0)"
do
    i="$i/adb"
    if [ -f "$i" -a -x "$i" ]
    then
        adb=$i
        break
    fi
done

if [ -e "$adb" ]
then
    echo "using adb: $adb" 1>&2
else
    echo "could not resolve a path to adb ... check your installation" 1>&2
    exit 1
fi

# "pm path" returns somthing like the following
#     "package:/data/app/com.koushikdutta.backup-1.apk\r"
# but with a trailing carriage return that screws up the class name in dalvikvm invocation
#
echo "retrieving the class name ..." 1>&2
pkg=$($adb shell pm path com.koushikdutta.backup | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^.*://' -e 's/\r//')

echo "starting up helium package '$pkg'" 1>&2

$adb shell << EOF
CLASSPATH=$pkg app_process /system/bin com.koushikdutta.shellproxy.ShellRunner2 $@ &
exit
EOF

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