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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14-08-04 07:42 AM, David Planella wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> With the recent landing of the developer mode UI and from previous discussions
> on the list and on IRC, I understand that:
> 
> - ADB will be disabled by default, but can be enabled/disabled using the switch
> in the developer mode
> - SSH will be disabled by default and there is no UI to enable/disable it.
> However, it can be enabled from an adb shell session issuing the 'setprop
> persist.service.ssh true' command.
> 
> I also understand the rationale that most things can be accomplished with ADB
> and power users can simply enable SSH over the terminal.
> 
> However, given the fact that Qt Creator uses both ADB (for SSH key exchange) and
> SSH (for app deployment), this introduces another manual step before being able
> to develop apps with a device, making the app developer experience a bit more
> cumbersome. The SDK tell me that it'd be technically possible to migrate to ADB
> only, but that there'd be some issues with adb port forwarding and the emulator
> (they can expand on this better than I).
> 
> Is there a way developer mode can work better with Qt Creator, so that the
> developer only has to worry about flicking a switch on the device?
> 

Why doesn't the SDK simply turn on ssh? The SDK is required to do the ssh key
exchange anyway.

Marc.