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Use Android command-line tools

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Use Android command-line tools

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- [Instructor] As an Android developer, you'll find that you spend most of your time in Android Studio. But there are many situations where knowing how to use Android command-line tools can be very useful. First, you'll want to add the SDK's tools and platform tools directories to your system path. They're located here, under your SDK directory. On Mac, that's typically under the library, Android, SDK directory under your home directory, and on Windows it's wherever you placed it when you installed Android Studio. From here you'll find the tools directory, and under there a BIN directory and there are commands in both of those directories in the most recent releases, and then there's a platform tools directory. And this is where the critical tool ADB, for Android Debug Bridge, is located. If you've never done that before, you can find directions in the course Android Studio Essential Training. Now, to add these directories to your path, on Windows, just add them to your path…

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