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Answer : Using chrome://inspect/#devices, if the device is detected, but tabs open in chrome on the device are not listed, look for the "activate USB debugging" option in the chrome settings-->developer options tab on the device. This is in addition to the USB debugging option you've already checked in the Android developer settings. Ok you must use chrome mobile in order to debug any webviews or browser tabs. No other browser works. I was unaware of this. //Edit As of Android version 4.4 or later this is no longer the case. Android 4.4 has support for debugging internal Webviews. Please see https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/remote-debugging#debugging-webviews After connecting your device, make sure you open Chrome browser on the device and after that refresh the Chrome window on your PC. This will display the entry of the opened Chrome browser on the device. It will not launch if you don't first open Chrome browser on your phone

Answer : Try these steps: Download and install Android SDK Open SDK Manager.exe Select Android SDK Platform-tools and press Install packages... Open a command prompt and execute these commands: cd C:\Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools (or C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools ) adb.exe devices You should receive a response like this: List of devices attached ABCDEFG123 device If your device is listed check if Chrome detect the device, otherwise try to execute this command: adb.exe kill-server adb.exe start-server adb.exe devices Check again if Chrome detect the device. If your device is not listed at all after executing adb devices command there is something wrong in your configuration (e.g. incorrect or missing drivers?) Hope this helps somebody else... This happened to me because I was trying to Chrome inspect a release build (Ionic; i.e. ionic build android --release ). If I build a debug app ( ionic build andr...