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Installing ADB on macOS [duplicate]

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macos

adb

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.

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wesley franks Avatar asked Jul 13 '15 00:07

wesley franks


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Option 1 - Using Homebrew

This is the easiest way and will provide automatic updates.

  1. Install the homebrew package manager

     /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" 
  2. Install adb

     brew install android-platform-tools 
  3. 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.

  1. Delete your old installation (optional)

     rm -rf ~/.android-sdk-macosx/ 
  2. Navigate to https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html and click on the SDK Platform-Tools for Mac link.

  3. Go to your Downloads folder

     cd ~/Downloads/ 
  4. Unzip the tools you downloaded

     unzip platform-tools-latest*.zip  
  5. Move them somewhere you won't accidentally delete them

     mkdir ~/.android-sdk-macosx  mv platform-tools/ ~/.android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools 
  6. Add platform-tools to your path

     echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/.android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/' >> ~/.bash_profile 
  7. Refresh your bash profile (or restart your terminal app)

     source ~/.bash_profile 
  8. Start using adb

     adb devices 

Option 3 - Manually (with SDK Manager)

  1. Delete your old installation (optional)

     rm -rf ~/.android-sdk-macosx/ 
  2. 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.

  3. Go to your Downloads folder

     cd ~/Downloads/ 
  4. Unzip the tools you downloaded

     unzip tools_r*-macosx.zip  
  5. Move them somewhere you won't accidentally delete them

     mkdir ~/.android-sdk-macosx  mv tools/ ~/.android-sdk-macosx/tools 
  6. Run the SDK Manager

     sh ~/.android-sdk-macosx/tools/android 
  7. Uncheck everything but Android SDK Platform-tools (optional)

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

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  1. Add platform-tools to your path

     echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/.android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/' >> ~/.bash_profile 
  2. Refresh your bash profile (or restart your terminal app)

    source ~/.bash_profile 
  3. Start using adb

    adb devices 
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brismuth Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 18:10

brismuth