

or similar you will need to look into configuring your path or installing adb. If you see a message saying 'adb' is not recognized. You should see a long list of instructions and commands. Once a terminal is open, type adb and hit enter. Windows: Click Tools -> Android -> Android Adb Command Prompt.ADB can be downloaded as part of the Android SKD Platform Tools. If you want to run ADB on Linux, without Visual Studio or using the built in terminal additional configuration may be required but we won't cover that here.

We'll access ADB from the SDK command prompt lunched from Visual Studio. This article assumes you have Visual Studio 2019 for Mac or Visual Studio 2019 for Windows installed with the Mobile development with. Accessing and using ADB on the command line Net developers we're pretty lucky to have a fully featured debugger to help us solve a lot of problems but some issues appear outside of the debug cycle. One of the main reasons to use ADB is to work out what's happening on your devices when things aren't going right. Xamarin developers can use ADB to install/uninstall packages, inspect running apps, push and pull files and check error logs. ADB, Android Debug Bridge, is a useful command line utility for interacting with Android devices for debugging and diagnostic purposes.
