/bin/sh: adb: command not found

Question

When I try to run my react native app on my device, I get the following message /bin/sh: adb: command not found. The app still runs on my phone but I can't reload it or remote debug it.

There are many questions like this but their solutions don't help me.

My adb file is in ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools.

I tried to do sudo nano ~/.zshrc, then under User Configuration I added export PATH="~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools" but it didn't help.

When I do echo $PATH I get the following (but I don't know what it means :( ): /Users/myname/.rbenv/shims:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/myname/.rbenv/shims:/Users/myname/.rbenv/shims:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/myname/.rvm/bin

I guess I should export the correct path but I don't know where to start from. Any idea?

Solution

please try:

export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/{yourusername}/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH

Comments

[Niels Ladekarl]

I'm assuming you run OSX. You have to remember the $PATH at the end of the export PATH command. What happens if you run: export PATH="~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools":$PATH

[Tom Bom]

Do I just write this in the terminal? Or inside some files?

[Tom Bom]

I wrote it in my terminal and it works now.

[Shubham1164]

you must add it in the .bash_profile if you are using mac

[Mike Boutin]

Ty, worked well!

[Apurva Aggarwal]

export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/{youusername}/Library/Android/sdk export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH

[Oluwatobi Samuel Omisakin]

updating the path helps me too. One note is that you may want to close and re-open your terminal to see the changes.

[Fabri Pautasso]

@OluwatobiSamuelOmisakin that's not needed, you can just run source .bash_profile

[tiennv]

ANDROID_SDK works for me.

[Riku]

It worked on my end. Thanks!

[protrafree]

is it documented on react native official docs or this is more like hacky way to get it done ? can i get reference link for this ?