adb command not found when trying to use adb to install apk file

Question

I'm trying to install an apk file in my emulator. I navigated to the directory where the apk file is and typed adb install [name of file].apk

I received this response:

-bash: adb: command not found

What should I do? Please keep it simple as I don't know much about this.

Answer 1

Type "which adb" in the terminal and see the location of the adb. If no location/ path to adb is displayed, then you should add the location of the platform-tools folder from the android sdk in the system PATH variable.

export PATH=$PATH:/home/path_to_android_sdk/platform-tools

Also, to make the change permanent, you could edit the .bashrc file and add the above line at the end. Save and execute .bashrc.