Trying to add adb to PATH variable OSX
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 = ${PATH}:/Users/simon/Libs/android-sdk-mac_x86/tools
When I check my environment path I see the following:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Libs/android-sdk-mac_x86/tools:/Libs/android-sdk-mac_x86/platform-tools
So I know that it is added to my PATH variable. Now when I try to run adb I get that it is not found.
-bash: ./adb: No such file or directory
This is very very frustrating. Could it be a problem with permissions? Has anyone had this problem with OSX and Android?
Answer
Add to PATH for every login
Total control version:
in your terminal, navigate to home directory
cd
create file .bash_profile
touch .bash_profile
open file with TextEdit
open -e .bash_profile
insert line into TextEdit
export PATH=$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