Setting up the Android phone for debugging

Now that my Linux laptop is setup for debugging Android, I need to make sure that my phone is in a debuggable state. Setting up the phone to do this is simple enough.

1. Launch the Settings app on the phone, and select Applications as so:

2.  In the Applications app, click on Development: 

3.  In the Development app, make sure that "USB debugging" is enabled:

Now check to make sure that the Android Debugging Bridge (adb) does indeed see the phone device. To do this, from a terminal run:

$ adb devices
List of devices attached
T95960a0752a device

NOTE:
If you've restarted your machine, then in all likelihood "adb devices" will return a blank. In which case, kill and restart the adb service:

$ sudo ./adb kill-server
$ sudo ./adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
T95960a0752a    device