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Set up adb on Mac OS X
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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?
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.
Option 1 - Using Homebrew
This is the easiest way and will provide automatic updates.
Install homebrew
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Install adb
brew cask install android-platform-tools
Start using adb
adb devices
Option 2 - Manually (just the platform tools)
This is the easiest way to get a manual installation of ADB and Fastboot.
Delete your old installation (optional)
rm -rf ~/.android-sdk-macosx/
Navigate to https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html and click on the SDK Platform-Tools for Mac
link.
Go to your Downloads folder
cd ~/Downloads/
Unzip the tools you downloaded
unzip platform-tools-latest*.zip
Move them somewhere you won't accidentally delete them
mkdir ~/.android-sdk-macosx
mv platform-tools/ ~/.android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools
Add platform-tools
to your path
echo 'export PATH=$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)
- Click
Install Packages
, accept licenses, click Install
. Close the SDK Manager window.
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.