Android USB Tethering & Debugging

If you want to debug an Android application that needs USB tethering – say a FPV app – then you can use the following steps.

1. You need to first connect the device to the same wifi network as your PC.
2. Then start the USB tethering and provide internet to whatever you need – say a Raspberry PI running wifibroadcast or my RC software.
3. Run this in a terminal:
   adb connect 192.168.1.33:5555
   where 192.168… is the WiFi IP of your device
4. That’s it. The device is now visible to Android Studio & QtCreator just like if it were connected by USB. I didn’t notice any slowdowns in deployment vs USB – but my app is rather small (a few MB)