How do i run the Android command line tools?

Question

I'm still pretty new to Android and programming in general, and I can't seem to get the command line tools packaged with the Android SDK to work. I'm running Mac OSX and each time I try to run layoutopt, for example, the terminal returns, *-bash: cmd: command not found *

Also, is it okay to have my SDK located in the Developer directory and my android project in some unrelated directory when using these tools?

Answer 1

If you want you can put the path in your ~/.bash_profile so you can call it from anywhere:

export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/<username>/path/to/sdk/tools

export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

Answer 2

You may want to include also the platform-tools into your ~./bash_profile

### Android dev tools
export ANDROID_HOME="/Users/myusername/DEV/tools/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64/sdk"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"

You will need to start a new terminal session or run

source ~/.bash_profile

to loads the values immediately without having to open a new terminal session.