Android/Eclipse Installation on MacOSX - adb is not working

Question

Computer Details:
Macbook, Late 2008
Apple Mac OS X 10.7.3 Intel

Eclipse Details:
Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Indigo Service Release 2
Build id: 20120216-1857

I'm unable to install or run adb on my machine and I wish to resolve this issue.

After I re-installed my ADT plugin on Eclipse and re-download a new AndroidSDK zip file, I ran the Android SDK Manager plugin and I proceeded to download the platform-tools where adb is contained.

This is the log message I received:

Installing Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 11
Stopping ADB server failed (code -1).
Installed Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 11
Stopping ADB server succeeded.
Starting ADB server succeeded.
Done. 1 package installed.
Done loading packages.

I went to my directory in bash:

/Users/Tapehead/Documents/Android/platform-tools

And I tried running various adb shell commands but all I get is:

-bash: adb: command not found

Which I think it means it isn't installed properly.

Please help me. Thank you!

Answer 1

You should put

/Users/Tapehead/Documents/Android/platform-tools

into your PATH in .profile or .bashrc with somethin like this command:

export PATH=~/Documents/Android/platform-tools:$PATH

Answer 2

Include the path to android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools in your PATH environment variable. In your ~/.profile file add the line

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools

Answer 3

I think you need to download platform-tools,

go to Android SDK folder, run/execute "android.sh" file,

Android SDK manager will open, It has first row "Tools" make sure that you have installed "Tools".

Thank You,