How to get the adb output in app android?

Question

I have a rooted device where I am checking if the soft keyboard is visible by executing this adb command in the terminal:

adb shell dumpsys window InputMethod | grep "mHasSurface"

and this is the output:

mHasSurface=true mShownPosition=[0,1176] isReadyForDisplay()=true hasSavedSurface()=false mWindowRemovalAllowed=false

I am able to execute the same adb command from my app (using root) but I don't know how to get the output. Does anyone know if its possible to get the output in app? Thank you in advance.

could you please post the code you're using to execute the same command in your app? — Lino, Jul 12 '20 at 08:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '20 at 13:03

After a while, found a way to do it here:

            try {
                Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(sCommand11);
                BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
                int status = process.waitFor();
                Timber.d(sSUCommand6 + " finished with status " + status);

                // Grab the results
                StringBuilder log = new StringBuilder();
                String line;
                while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
                    log.append(line + "\n");
                }

                Timber.d("We have the input " + log.toString());

            } catch (Exception e) {
                Timber.e("Error occurred while copying file " + e.getMessage());
            }

How to get the adb output in app android?

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