Get Android OS version of device connected via ADB

Question

Can one use adb or adb shell commands to get attached emulator/device OS info, i.e. API version?

score 279 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 30 '15 at 12:45

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To get Android version you can use:

adb shell getprop ro.build.version.release

to get API level:

adb shell getprop ro.build.version.sdk

You can see all available properties with this command:

adb shell getprop

answered Apr 30 '15 at 12:45

Mattia Maestrini

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If you have more devices attached to your machine, you will not be able to use this command by default. You need to provide ANDROID_SERIAL environment variable which identifies your device ID. This is an example: adb devices (you will get attached device IDs) ANDROID_SERIAL=DEVICE_ID adb shell getprop ro.build.version.release – Bakir Jusufbegovic Apr 21 '16 at 12:55
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If you have several devices connected, specify `-s ID` where ID is the device's ID from `adb devices`. For example `adb -s 1234 shell getprop ro.build.version.release ` – Ohad Schneider Jan 11 '17 at 16:14

score 19 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 27 '19 at 02:45

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I know , you already got the correct solution , & here is my solution only for additional information.

You will get every details by cat ing the /system/build.prop file like

adb shell cat /system/build.prop

edited Nov 27 '19 at 02:45

SebMa

answered Apr 30 '15 at 13:01

Don Chakkappan

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I had to use this `adb shell cat system/build.prop`. `cd`ing didn't work for me. – Tomáš Hübelbauer Nov 01 '16 at 09:06
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Now it is adb shell cat /system/build.prop. But this will not work for user device. It will work only for rooted device. – AndroDev Aug 03 '17 at 07:16

score 13 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 30 '15 at 12:47

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For all properties:

adb shell getprop

answered Apr 30 '15 at 12:47

com2ghz

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