android - Enable USB debugging (under settings/applications/development) programmatically from within an app

Question

Is it possible to enable USB debugging (under settings/applications/development) programmatically from within my app?

I was looking at Permission.WRITE_SETTINGS and http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.System.html, but I couldn't find anything appropriate.

Answer 1

You will need root permissions to do so from an app.

That said, it is possible to enable ADB by executing the following terminal commands:

setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1
start adbd

This blog post gives an excellent example of how to execute these commands with escalated permissions through su.