adb.exe not found after installing Android Studio

Question

I installed Android Studio 1.2.1.1 and also created virtual device. I am trying to install one app (APK file) through command line but I could not find adb.exe file on my machine. Please help where should I look for adb.exe file on the machine.

Answer 1

The adb.exe file will be located at your Android SDK folder, inside platform-tools

...\android-sdk-path\platform-tools\adb.exe

The default location where Android SDK is installed is:

C:\Users\<insert username here>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\

So adb will be located at:

C:\Users\<insert username here>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe

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To access it on a command line, open cmd.exe and type:

cd C:\Users\<insert username here>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools\

and then your normal command

adb <insert parameters here>

Answer 2

May be adb.exe file is missing form your computer. Try deleting platform-tools folder and re-download it from SDKManager.

Answer 3

In my case, adb.exe got deleted after Android Studio update. I copied all the contents under platform-tools to another directory, deleted all the contents under platform-tools and installed platform-tools from Android SDK Manager.

Answer 4

Mac OS El Capitan has it located at /Users/[username]/depot_tools/src/chrome/browser/devtools/device

Answer 5

Make sure in Android Studio, under System Settings > Andorid SDK > tab called SDK Tools, you have checked this option: