Not able to access adb in OS X through Terminal, “command not found”

Question

I have installed Android SDK and Eclipse on my Mac system. I am able to program using Eclipse and have created few sample applications. But I am still not able to access

Answer 1

If you are using zsh on an OS X, you have to edit the zshrc file.

Use vim or your favorite text editor to open zshrc file:

vim ~/.zshrc

Paste the path to adb in this file:

export PATH="/Users/{$USER}/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools":$PATH

Answer 2

I don't know how did you install the android SDK. But in Mac OS, what really worked for me is to reinstall it using brew. All problems solved in a row.

brew cask install android-sdk

Later on:

android update sdk --no-ui --filter 'platform-tools'

Like a charm

Answer 3

I couldn't get the stupid path working so I created an alias for abd

alias abd ="~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb"

works fine.

Answer 4

For Mac Os the default shell has moved on to "zsh" from "bash" as of Mojave and later releases, so for all the Mac users I would suggest go with the creating ".zshrc" file. "adb" runs as it is intended to be. Thanks @slhck for your info.!

Answer 5

It's working fine..

brew install android-sdk

Later on:

android update sdk --no-ui --filter 'platform-tools'

Answer 6

Or the alternative solution could be

1. Make sure you already install for android SDK. Usually it is located under /Users/your-user-name/Library/Android/sdk

2. If the SDK is there then run this command. ./platform-tools/adb install your-apk-location

3. From there you can generate the APK file That's the only sample to check if adb command is there