Comments on: How to Obtain and Install ADB on a Mac

By: Dan Otim

Dan Otim — Thu, 26 May 2022 19:18:46 +0000

Perfect perfect genius dude it worked after days of googling

By: Hamza

Hamza — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 06:10:31 +0000

Thank you so much. This was really simple and straight-forward.

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 06:51:41 +0000

In reply to Frankie.

This worked for me. Many other guides didn’t.

I needed to get a root shell using:-
sudo -i
before:-
echo ‘export PATH:~/SDKs/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/‘ >> ~/.bash_profile

Then:-
echo $PATH
worked after closing terminal and reopening (but not before, for me), and finally:-
adb
worked

By: James

James — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:25:11 +0000

GENIUS! Worked perfectly. Thank you!!!

By: John

John — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 23:30:50 +0000

In reply to pon. Certainly.

By: pon

pon — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:09:52 +0000

i will go for it, thank you John

By: John

John — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:18:44 +0000

In reply to paul. It appears that adb is installed correctly on your machine. It shows that your device is unauthorized. Try the top answer found here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23081263/adb-android-device-unauthorized .

By: paul

paul — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:07:36 +0000

thank you John
I did all exactly what you said: But than I found, that mac has not installed the stuff for adb’s…..
So I had to install Homebrew (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17901692/set-up-adb-on-mac-os-x/19142768) It “did” a lot of work in terminal on my mac (sic?) not shure if its safe(lot of remote stuff)
but it shows
Homebrew is run entirely by unpaid volunteers. Please consider donating:
http://github.com/Homebrew/brew#donations
==> Next steps:
– Run `brew help` to get started
– Further documentation:
http://docs.brew.sh
MacBook-Air:~ paul$ brew cask install android-platform-tools
==> Tapping homebrew/cask
Cloning into ‘/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask’…
remote: Enumerating objects: 3571, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3571/3571), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3562/3562), done.
remote: Total 3571 (delta 25), reused 456 (delta 7), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (3571/3571), 1.20 MiB | 613.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (25/25), done.
Tapped 1 command and 3459 casks (3,576 files, 3.9MB).
==> Downloading http://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r29.0.5-
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Verifying SHA-256 checksum for Cask ‘android-platform-tools’.
==> Installing Cask android-platform-tools
==> Linking Binary ‘adb’ to ‘/usr/local/bin/adb’.
==> Linking Binary ‘dmtracedump’ to ‘/usr/local/bin/dmtracedump’.
==> Linking Binary ‘etc1tool’ to ‘/usr/local/bin/etc1tool’.
==> Linking Binary ‘fastboot’ to ‘/usr/local/bin/fastboot’.
==> Linking Binary ‘hprof-conv’ to ‘/usr/local/bin/hprof-conv’.
==> Linking Binary ‘mke2fs’ to ‘/usr/local/bin/mke2fs’.
? android-platform-tools was successfully installed!
MacBook-Air:~ paul$ adb devices
* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully
List of devices attached
7a5ac41d unauthorized…….no can you help me again John?

By: John

John — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:21:09 +0000

In reply to paul.

After you unzipped “platform-tools” by double-clicking on it, where did you place the “platform-tools” folder? If you moved it somewhere different than what is outlined in the post, you will have to make sure you have the correct path to the “platform-tools” folder when you add it to the PATH variable.

Just to be clear, in my home directory (the folder with the house on it), I created a folder called “SDKs,” and inside that folder I created another folder called “android-sdk-macosx,” and then I placed the unzipped, downloaded folder “platform-tools” in there.

Hope that helps.

By: paul

paul — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:32:46 +0000

after inserting adb devices it writes “comand not found”
MacBook-Air:~ paul$ cd /path/to/extracted/folder/
-bash: cd: /path/to/extracted/folder/: No such file or directory
MacBook-Air:~ paul$ echo ‘export PATH=$PATH:~/SDKs/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/’ >> ~/.bash_profile
MacBook-Air:~ paul$ source ~/.bash_profile
MacBook-Air:~ paul$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/paul/SDKs/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/:/Users/paul/SDKs/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/:/Users/paul/SDKs/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/:/Users/paul/SDKs/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/:/Users/paul/SDKs/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/:/Users/paul/SDKs/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/
MacBook-Air:~ paul$ adb devices
-bash: adb: command not found
MacBook-Air:~ paul$ adb devices