I need to run an adb forward
command before I could use the ezkeyboard application which allows user to type on the phone using browser.
When I run adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080
command I get the adb command not found
error message.
I can run android
command from terminal. Why adb
is not working?
Make sure adb
is in your user's $PATH variable.
or
You can try to locate it with whereis
and run it with ./adb
in my case I added the following line in my terminal:
export PATH="/Users/Username/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools":$PATH
make sure that you replace "username" with YOUR user name.
hit enter then type 'adb' to see if the error is gone. if it is, this is what you should see: Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.40
...followed by a bunch of commands..and ending with this: $ADB_TRACE comma-separated list of debug info to log: all,adb,sockets,packets,rwx,usb,sync,sysdeps,transport,jdwp $ADB_VENDOR_KEYS colon-separated list of keys (files or directories) $ANDROID_SERIAL serial number to connect to (see -s) $ANDROID_LOG_TAGS tags to be used by logcat (see logcat --help)
if you get that, run npm run android again and it should work..
In my case with Android Studio 1.1.0 path was this
/Users/wzbozon/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools
Add the following to ~/.bash_profile
export PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/tools:$PATH
export PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH
If you don't want to edit PATH
variable, go to the platform-tools
directory where the SDK
is installed, and the command is there.
You can use it like this:
Go to the directory where you placed the SDK
:
cd /Users/mansour/Library/Developer/Android/sdk/platform-tools
Type the adb
command with ./
to use it from the current directory.
./adb tcpip 5555
./adb devices
./adb connect 192.168.XXX.XXX
nano /home/user/.bashrc
export ANDROID_HOME=/psth/to/android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
However, this will not work for su/ sudo. If you need to set system-wide variables, you may want to think about adding them to /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, or /etc/environment.
ie:
nano /etc/bash.bashrc
export ANDROID_HOME=/psth/to/android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
Considering you have already downloaded SDK platform tools. These commands are for MAC users.
This command will set ADB locally. So if you close the terminal and open it again, ADB commands won't work until you run this command again.
export PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH
These commands will set ADB globally. So once you run these commands no need to set them again next time.
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
This is the easiest way and will provide automatic updates.
install homebrew
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Install adb
brew cask install android-platform-tools
Start using adb
adb devices
From the file android-sdks/tools/adb_has_moved.txt:
The adb tool has moved to platform-tools/
If you don't see this directory in your SDK, launch the SDK and AVD Manager (execute the android tool) and install "Android SDK Platform-tools"
Please also update your PATH environment variable to include the platform-tools/ directory, so you can execute adb from any location.
so on UNIX do something like:
export PATH=$PATH:~/android-sdks/platform-tools
UNABLE TO LOCATE ADB #SOLVED Simply Download Sdk platform tools.https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html Extract the Downloaded file. Go to Sdk Manager in Android Studio and copy the link. Go to file Explorer and paste the path for Sdk you copied to view the Sdk files. You will notice that the Adb file is missing, open downloaded file (platform tools) copy contents and replace every content in your Sdk tool file (the file where you noticed adb is missing)and save. You are good to go.
you have to move the adb command to /bin/ folder
in my case:
sudo su
mv /root/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb /bin/
I solved this issue by install adb package. I'm using Ubuntu.
sudo apt install adb
I think this will help to you.
Mac users just open /Users/(USERNAME)/.bash_profile
this file in a editor.
and add this line to add path.
export PATH="/Users/myuser/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools":$PATH
this is the default path if you install adb via studio. and dont forget to change the username in this line.
I am using Mac 10.11.1 and using android studio 1.5, I have my adb "/Users/user-name/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools"
Now edit you bash_profile
emacs ~/.bash_profile
Add this line to your bash_profile, and replace the user-name with your username
export PATH="$PATH:/Users/user-name/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools"
save and close. Run this command to reload your bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
On my Mac (OS X 10.8.5) I have adb here:
~/Library/android-sdk-mac_86/platform-tools
So, edit the $PATH
in your .bash_profile
and source
it.
if youd dont have adb in folder android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/
you should install platform tools first. Run android-sdk-macosx/tools/android
and Install platform tools from Android SDK manager.
Is adb installed? To check, run the following command in Terminal:
~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb
If that prints output, skip these following install steps and go straight to the final Terminal command I list:
Run the following command on your Mac and restart your Terminal session:
echo export "PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile
Note: If you've switched to zsh, the above command should use .zshenv
rather than .bash_profile
In my case this is the solving of this problem
Make sure you have installed the android SDK. Usually the location of SDK is located to this location
/Users/your-user/Library/Android/sdk
After that cd to that directory.
Once you are in that directory type this command ./platform-tools/adb install your-location-of apk
Type the below command in terminal:
nano .bash_profile
And add the following lines (replace USERNAME with your own user name).
export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/USERNAME/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=${PATH}:${ANDROID_HOME}/tools
export PATH=${PATH}:${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools
Close the text editor, and then enter the command below:
source .bash_profile
To avoid rewriting the $PATH variables every time you start a terminal, edit your .bash_profile (for Macs, it's just .profile) file under your home directory (~/), and place the export statement somewhere in the file.
Now every time you start terminal, your $PATH variable will be correctly updated. To update the terminal environment immediately after modifying the profile file, type in:
source ~/.profile
+ The reason is: you are in the wrong directory (means it doesn't contain adb executor).
+ The solution is (step by step):
1) Find where the adb was installed. Depend on what OS you are using.
Mac, it could be in: "~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools
"
or
Window, it could be in: "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools\
".
However, in case you could NOT remember this such long directory, you can quickly find it by the command "find
". Try this in your terminal/ command line, "find / -name "platform-tools" 2> /dev/null
" (Note: I didn't test in Window yet, but it works with Mac for sure).
*Explain the find command,
2> /dev/null
" --> ignore find results denied by permission. Try the one without this code, you will understand what I mean.2) Go to where we installed adb. There are 3 ways mentioned by many people:
Change the PATH global param (which I won't recommend) by: "export PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools
" which is the directory you got from above. Note, this command won't print any result, if you want to make sure you changed PATH successfully, call "export | grep PATH
" to see what the PATH is.
Add more definition for the PATH global param (which I recommend) by: "export PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH
" or "export PATH=$PATH:~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools
"
Go to the path we found above by "cd ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools
"
3) Use adb:
If you change or update the PATH, simply call any adb functions, since you added the PATH as a global param. (e.g: "adb devices
")
If you go to the PATH by cd
command, call adb functions with pre-fix "./
" (e.g: "./ adb devices
")
For mac users with zshrc file (who don't have bash profile).
Go to your user folder and tap cmd + fn + shift + "." (on Mac laptop keyboard !)
Hidden files are visible, open .zhrc file with a Text Editor
Paste this line, don't forget to change the username between braces :
export PATH="$PATH:/Users/{username}/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools"
you can save and close the .zhrc
source ~/.zshrc
Now you can use adb command lines !
In my case, I was in the platform-tools
directory but was using command in the wrong way:
adb install
instead of the right way:
./adb install
Source: Stackoverflow.com