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I had issues finding a good solid tutorial on how to setup ADB for Mac.
How can I add ADB to macOS in such a way that it can be used in the terminal?
UPDATE
For those reading this post. Yes, as the edited response says. I was at the time looking for a tutorial with all steps as a beginner level guide.
Unlike Set up adb on Mac OS X, the intention of this question is to have a tutorial with all of the required installation steps to get ADB on macOS.
~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/
stackoverflow.com/a/17901693
Note for zsh users: replace all references to ~/.bash_profile
with ~/.zshrc
.
Option 1 - Using Homebrew
This is the easiest way and will provide automatic updates.
Install the homebrew package manager /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" Install adb brew install android-platform-tools Start using adb adb devices
Option 2 - Manually (just the platform tools)
This is the easiest way to get a manual installation of ADB and Fastboot.
Delete your old installation (optional) rm -rf ~/.android-sdk-macosx/ Navigate to https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html and click on the SDK Platform-Tools for Mac link. Go to your Downloads folder cd ~/Downloads/ Unzip the tools you downloaded unzip platform-tools-latest*.zip Move them somewhere you won't accidentally delete them mkdir ~/.android-sdk-macosx mv platform-tools/ ~/.android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools Add platform-tools to your path echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/.android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/' >> ~/.bash_profile Refresh your bash profile (or restart your terminal app) source ~/.bash_profile Start using adb adb devices
Option 3 - Manually (with SDK Manager)
Delete your old installation (optional) rm -rf ~/.android-sdk-macosx/ Download the Mac SDK Tools from the Android developer site under "Get just the command line tools". Make sure you save them to your Downloads folder. Go to your Downloads folder cd ~/Downloads/ Unzip the tools you downloaded unzip tools_r*-macosx.zip Move them somewhere you won't accidentally delete them mkdir ~/.android-sdk-macosx mv tools/ ~/.android-sdk-macosx/tools Run the SDK Manager sh ~/.android-sdk-macosx/tools/android Uncheck everything but Android SDK Platform-tools (optional)
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Click Install Packages, accept licenses, click Install. Close the SDK Manager window.
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Add platform-tools to your path echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/.android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/' >> ~/.bash_profile Refresh your bash profile (or restart your terminal app) source ~/.bash_profile Start using adb adb devices
If you've already installed Android Studio --
Add the following lines to the end of ~/.bashrc
or ~/.zshrc
(if using Oh My ZSH):
export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/$USER/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
Restart Terminal and you're good to go. 👍
~/.bash_profile
and it worked!
Note that if you use Android Studio and download through its SDK Manager, the SDK is downloaded to ~/Library/Android/sdk
by default, not ~/.android-sdk-macosx
.
I would rather add this as a comment to @brismuth's excellent answer, but it seems I don't have enough reputation points yet.
Option 3 - Using MacPorts
Analoguously to the two options (homebrew / manual) posted by @brismuth, here's the MacPorts way:
Install the Android SDK: sudo port install android Run the SDK manager: sh /opt/local/share/java/android-sdk-macosx/tools/android As @brismuth suggested, uncheck everything but Android SDK Platform-tools (optional) Install the packages, accepting licenses. Close the SDK Manager. Add platform-tools to your path; in MacPorts, they're in /opt/local/share/java/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools. E.g., for bash: echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/share/java/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools' >> ~/.bash_profile Refresh your bash profile (or restart your terminal/shell): source ~/.bash_profile Start using adb: adb devices
You must download Android SDK from this link. You can really put it anywhere, but the best place at least for me was right in the YOUR USERNAME folder root. Then you need to set the path by copying the below text, but edit your username into the path, copy the text into Terminal by hitting command+spacebar type terminal. export PATH = ${PATH}:/Users/**YOURUSERNAME**/android-sdk/platform-tools/ Verify ADB works by hitting command+spacebar and type terminal, and type ADB.
There you go. You have ADB setup on MAC OS X. It works on latest MAC OS X 10.10.3.
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Installing the Android Studio and using that adb version solved my issue.echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/' >> ~/.bash_profile
adb
, as runningbrew search adb
returns 0 result. Opened an issue on homebrew-cask repo about it, by the way.