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If this is your first time connecting through adb, you might also need to authorize your PC in your Android device which should shows up with a pop-up dialog. If it doesn't, it could either be your PC not recognizing your device (especially on Windows where you will need a driver) or USB Debugging has not been enabled.

Then, plug your device into your PC and execute adb devices in the terminal. Afterwards, go into Developer Options and enable " USB Debugging". Some devices has different ways to enable Developer Options, so Google for your device if the common step doesn't work. First, enable Developer Options by going into System => About, and tap Build Number seven times. If you're using a physical device, you will need to enable USB debugging in the device. If it works, then we can continue ahead to explore some of its usefulness. We will have to reload the shell (close and open terminal) afterwards.Then try running adb again.

Then in your shell config ( ~/.bashsrc, ~/.zshrc etc.) Add the following lines (For Windows, you might need to add the path inside System variables) :Įxport PATH=$:$YOUR_EXTRACTED_PATH/platform-tools.

Unzip it somewhere you want to keep it (preferably ~/Android/platform-tools).

For the rest (and for MacOS as well if you prefer manual) you can follow these steps

For MacOS, running brew install android-platform-tools should be okay. If you see something along the line of command not found, that means adb is not installed yet.

Installing ADBįirst thing first, try running adb in your terminal to make sure it's installed on your system. But there's more to adb than that meets the eyes, in fact, some of the commands can help your day-to-day activities. When you run your app, the computer install the debug apk with adb install and launch the app with adb am start (am stands for activity manager more on that belows).

Well, the answer is through the Android Debug Bridge, adb for short. If you're developing Android apps, you might often wonder how does our PC communicate with the Android devices when we debug.