gmh5225 / vscode_lldb_remote_android

VS Code configuration to use LLDB for remote (Android) debugging

Usage

• Install plugin CodeLLDB by Vadim Chugunov for VS Code.

• Install plugin Tasks Shell Input by Augusto, with this plugin we can use commandline for input in launch.json.

• (Optional) set PYTHONPATH in .env so that you can import lldb when writting python scripts.

• Specify how your lldb should connect to remote-android before attaching to target process in .vscode/launch.json:

  {
      "configurations": [
          {
              // ...
              "initCommands": [
                  "platform select remote-android",
  
                  "platform connect connect://<Device ID>:6666", // You can use `adb devices` to acquire device id
                  // "platform connect connect://localhost:6666", // you need to run `adb forward tcp:6666 tcp:6666`
                  // "platform connect unix-abstract-connect:///data/local/tmp/debug.sock",
              ]
          }
      ]
      // ...
  }
  

• Start target on your Android device, and start debugging with VS Code. You can now attach to the pid, which is obtained via automatically run commandline.

• adb push corresponding lldb-server from NDK to Android device.

• Start lldb-server in adb shell

  chmod a+x ./lldb-server
  ./lldb-server p --server --listen unix-abstract:///data/local/tmp/debug.sock
  

• Launch CodeLLDB session