I am trying to develop for android and I want to add the adb
to my PATH
so that I can launch it really easily. I have added directories before by for some reason adb
does not want to be found. This is very frustrating. Has anyone else had this problem before?
I created a file .profile
and added the following to it.
export PATH = ${PATH}:/Users/simon/Libs/android-sdk-mac_x86/platform-tools/
export PATH = ${PATH}:/Users/simon/Libs/android-sdk-mac_x86/tools
When I check my environment path I see the following:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Libs/android-sdk-mac_x86/tools:/Libs/android-sdk-mac_x86/platform-tools
So I know that it is added to my PATH
variable. Now when I try to run adb
I get that it is not found.
-bash: ./adb: No such file or directory
This is very very frustrating. Could it be a problem with permissions? Has anyone had this problem with OSX and Android?
Android Studio v1.2 installs the adb tool in this path:
~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb
So it goes like this:
adb version
and expect an error outputtouch ~/.bash_profile
open ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
adb version
and expect an outputGood luck!
It appears that you're still trying to execute adb
with ./adb
. That asks the shell to run the program named adb
in the current working directory.
Try just adb
without ./
.
In order to make the terminal always have the file ~/.bashrc
and there put the path you wish to use, by adding:
export PATH=$PATH:/XXX
where XXX is the path that you wish to use.
for adb, here's what i use:
export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/Android/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools/
(where "user" is my user name).
In your terminal, navigate to home directory
cd
create file .bash_profile
touch .bash_profile
open file with TextEdit
open -e .bash_profile
insert line into TextEdit
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/
save file and reload file
source ~/.bash_profile is very important check if adb was set into path
adb version
It should be fine now.
If you don't want to have to worry about your path or updating adb manually, you can use homebrew instead.
brew cask install android-platform-tools
If anyone can't seem to get there .bash_profile
file to take any new Paths AND you have other commands in that file (like alias commands) then try moving the PATH statements to the top of the file.
That is the only thing that worked for me. The reason it worked was because I had some typos in my alias commands and apparently this file throws an error and exits if it runs into a problem. So that is why my PATH statements weren't being run. Moving it to the top just let it run first.
On my Macbook Pro, I've added the export lines to ~/.bash_profile, not .profile.
e.g.
export PATH=/Users/me/android-sdk-mac_86/platform-tools:/Users/me/android-sdk-mac_86/tools:$PATH
I use zsh and Android Studio. I use a variable for my Android SDK path and configure in the file ~/.zshrc
:
export ANDROID_HOME=/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH"
Note: Make sure not to include single or double quotes around the specified path. If you do, it won't work.
Total control version:
in your terminal, navigate to home directory
cd
create file .bash_profile
touch .bash_profile
open file with TextEdit
open -e .bash_profile
insert line into TextEdit
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/
save file and reload file
source ~/.bash_profile
check if adb was set into path
adb version
One liner version
Echo your export command and redirect the output to be appended to .bash_profile file and restart terminal. (have not verified this but should work)
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/ sdk/platform-tools/" >> ~/.bash_profile
The answer for MAC should be:
Open your bash_profile with the following commands: open ~/.bash_profile
In case base profile file doesn't exist, create a new one with the following command: touch .bash_profile
then repeat phase 1.
Add the following line: export PATH=/Users/"YOURUSER"/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH
Restart your bash window and test by typing adb shell
Good luck! :-)
I added export PATH=${PATH}:/Users/mishrapranjal/android-sdks/platform-tools/
into both places .bash_profile
and .profile
to make sure it works. Still it wasn't working and then I looked at sarnold's tip about restarting terminal and it worked like a charm.
It saved my time of adding every time this into the PATH
whenever I had to run adb
.
Thank you guys.
Just encase anyone finds this SO post when using Android Studio which includes the SDK has part of the App package (on Mac OSX).
So as @davecaunt and @user1281750 noted but insert the following line to .bash_profile
export PATH=/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/tools:/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH
Source: Stackoverflow.com