Installing Adb on macOS [Duplicate]

Question

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.

Accepted Answer

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 )"
```
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 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
```

Answer 2

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. 👍

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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
```

Answer 5

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.

Installing Adb on macOS [Duplicate]

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5 Answers

Option 1 - Using Homebrew

Option 2 - Manually (just the platform tools)

Option 3 - Manually (with SDK Manager)

Option 3 - Using MacPorts

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