A guide to the Android command-line tool for creating projects, managing Android SDK packages, running apps, and working with devices or virtual devices.

Use it to install the CLI, install SDK components, create projects, launch apps, manage emulators, take screenshots, and inspect Android UI.

It provides documented commands for common Android setup and development tasks instead of requiring developers to discover the command-line workflow themselves.

How gug007/lpm configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to gug007/lpm. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gug007/lpm/main/.claude/skills/android-cli/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gug007/lpm

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 4,551 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00076	$0.04551
Opus 5.5	$0.00030	$0.01820
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00015	$0.00910
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00455

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0739dfca5187, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

android-cli scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

Linux x86-64: curl -fsSL https://dl.google.com/android/cli/latest/linux_x86_64/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Linux x86-64: curl -fsSL https://dl.google.com/android/cli/latest/linux_x86_64/install.sh | bash

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to android-cli — 1,118 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/android-cli/SKILL.md · 496 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 496 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Android CLI Specialist

This skill provides instructions for using the android CLI tool. The tool includes various commands for creating projects, running applications, interacting with devices, and managing the CLI environment.

Installation

If the android tool is not in the path, install it. To install run the following command: Linux x86-64: curl -fsSL https://dl.google.com/android/cli/latest/linux_x86_64/install.sh | bash Linux ARM64: curl -fsSL https://dl.google.com/android/cli/latest/linux_arm64/install.sh | bash Mac Arm: curl -fsSL https://dl.google.com/android/cli/latest/darwin_arm64/install.sh | bash Mac Intel: curl -fsSL https://dl.google.com/android/cli/latest/darwin_x86_64/install.sh | bash Windows: curl -fsSL https://dl.google.com/android/cli/latest/windows_x86_64/install.cmd -o "%TEMP%\i.cmd" && "%TEMP%\i.cmd"

SDK management

To manage the installation of Android SDKs and tools, use the sdk command. For example:

android sdk install <package>[@<version>]...: Install specific packages. Multiple packages can be specified, separated by spaces. <version> defaults to latest. For example: android sdk install platforms/android-30@2 platforms/android-34
android sdk update [<pkg-name>]: Update a specific package or all packages to the latest version.
android sdk remove <pkg-name>: Remove a package from the local SDK.
android sdk list --all: List installed and available SDK packages.

Project creation

Create projects from templates using the create command.

For example: android create empty-activity --name="My App" --output=./my-app

Interacting with Android devices

Use the android layout command to inspect the UI layout of an Android application in JSON format. Use the android screen command to visually inspect the UI and obtain bounding coordinates for visual regions.

IMPORTANT: Before using android layout or android screen, you MUST read this reference: interact.md The reference file interact.md contains instructions for properly interacting with Android devices. Follow its instructions exactly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 496 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

5d ago First seen · 496 lines · 76 tokens per session scan C 0739dfca5187

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android-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository gug007/lpm (144 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 4,551 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 86% identical to android-cli, differing in 1,118 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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