Add AdbRunner forward port management APIs (mirror of #305 reverse)

[rmarinho]

Summary

Add forward port management APIs to Xamarin.Android.Tools.AdbRunner, mirroring the reverse-port API added in #305. adb forward is sometimes the right primitive for hot-reload tunnels (ServiceHub forwardPort), and is needed by the MAUI DevTools CLI as a sibling of the existing reverse-port surface.

Context

The MAUI DevTools CLI exposes a maui android port group for tunnel management. Reverse forwarding (reverse <local> <remote>) is already mappable via #305's ReversePortAsync. But forward forwarding (forward <local> <remote>, where local is on the host machine and remote is on the device) is the opposite primitive — used when something on the host needs to talk to a service running on the device.

Today we have to fall back to raw adb forward … invocations. See maui-labs#197 audit.

Proposed API

Mirrors the reverse-port API surface added in #305 for symmetry.

namespace Xamarin.Android.Tools;

public partial class AdbRunner
{
 /// adb -s <serial> forward <local> <remote>
 public virtual Task ForwardPortAsync(
 string serial,
 AdbPortSpec local,
 AdbPortSpec remote,
 CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);

 /// adb -s <serial> forward --remove <local>
 public virtual Task RemoveForwardPortAsync(
 string serial,
 AdbPortSpec local,
 CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);

 /// adb -s <serial> forward --remove-all
 public virtual Task RemoveAllForwardPortsAsync(
 string serial,
 CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);

 /// adb -s <serial> forward --list (returns rules for the matching serial)
 public virtual Task<IReadOnlyList<AdbPortRule>> ListForwardPortsAsync(
 string serial,
 CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);
}

The existing AdbPortSpec and AdbPortRule types from #305 are reused — both forward and reverse use the same tcp:, localabstract:, localreserved:, localfilesystem:, dev:, jdwp: syntax.

adb forward --list global output (no serial filter) is emitted by adb as <serial> <local> <remote> per line. Filter to the requested serial in the implementation, matching the symmetry with ListReversePortsAsync.

Consumer

• MAUI DevTools CLI (dotnet/maui-labs) — maui android port forward <local> <remote> [--device], maui android port forward --remove, --list, --clear-all. See maui-labs#197 audit.
• VS Code MAUI extension ServiceHub → CLI migration — MauiAndroidPlatform.ts forwardPort() (used in some debugger configurations where the IDE host needs to connect to a device-side socket).
• DevFlow agent connect flow — when the agent listens on a device port and the host needs to reach it via a stable host-side port (alternative to the current reverse pattern).

Related

• Add ADB wrapper (adb CLI) android#12071 — Add ADB wrapper (parent)
• Add ADB reverse port forwarding support #303 / Add ADB reverse port forwarding support #305 — Add ADB reverse port forwarding (this is the mirror)
• maui-labs Enable CodeQL #197 — DevFlow skill audit

[rmarinho]

Closing — this is more of a small follow-up to #305 than a separate design. The AdbPortSpec / AdbPortRule types and parsing logic from that PR already cover the wire format; forward port is just 4 new methods reusing the existing types. Moved the request to a comment on #305 to keep the design context together.