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Installing ADB on macOS [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Set up adb on Mac OS X (32 answers) Closed 5 years ago.

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.

Mine seems to be more of a step process I wouldn't say it's a duplicate. More so a different way of going about it. Specially giving a place to download the adb files.
@wesleyfranks congratulations on having such a popular question! It's one of the top search results on Google for installing ADB on Mac. Also, if you feel like my answer is satisfactory, you can show that by marking it as Accepted.
I was hoping my answer would be helpful too! LOL, guess not everyone likes your answer, but sense it is the popular answer I will mark it accepted in hopes people will see me as a team player. I'm for helping everyone get the right information so thank you @brismuth.
ADB might already be installed at ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/ stackoverflow.com/a/17901693

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brismuth

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)

https://i.stack.imgur.com/H2p4V.png

Click Install Packages, accept licenses, click Install. Close the SDK Manager window.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/ojZVT.png

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


Thanks. I tried the homebrew version (I'm on Mavericks with XCode 5.0.1 with clang-500.2.79). Installation successful. adb finds my device. But when trying a adb backup -all I get a Buffer Error: 10 Installing the Android Studio and using that adb version solved my issue.
@georg that's interesting. Were they two different adb versions?
I love you // mac commands that work perfectly!!
On Mac OS X (El Capitan) The platform-tools are in a different directory, so instead replace step 9 above with echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/' >> ~/.bash_profile
Good homebrew cask. Wish it was called simply adb, as running brew search adb returns 0 result. Opened an issue on homebrew-cask repo about it, by the way.
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Kyle Dumovic

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. 👍


Never thought the need to reboot terminal. Thanks!
yeah you can use exec zsh or exec bash for restarting it :)
Had not added the last command in the terminal. This worked, after numerous searches and attempts. Thank you!
I had to add those lines to ~/.bash_profile and it worked!
my zshrc location was at ==> /etc/zshrc and by adding the mentioned path at the end of the file everything become OK. thanks
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brismuth

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.


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hans_meine

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


Fixed it for me. :-)
Android for Mac OS port is broken:
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James Skemp

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.


I still don't understand why my answer isn't acceptable it's definitely a working solution. I don't understand why I have a negative vote?
hi, it's a matter of style. Your formatting is hard to read. 1. Generally writing in caps is equivalent of SCREAMING at people on the net. 2. Bolding it and bolding too much make things worse 3. This 'username' thing is not needed here, see the accepted answer to see better solution - your answer would be shorter and simpler. You can see the accepted answer and learn from the style - how to present things, and highlight them and make it clear. I followed that and it's just simple copy/paste a few times. Currently the accepted answer is also more complete.
I edited your answer a bit to help you start making it look good - it can still get a lot of likes :)
Ah, gotcha wasn't aware of that format issue. I believed it looked fine, but I understand that I could be wrong. Thanks for updating my answer this is apparently my most popular question (despite it being a duplicate). People can sometimes be harsh on others just trying to be apart of the community. That said, thank you for your assistance.