Alright so you are a Mac user and you have an Android Device. Maybe because you love Android or maybe you don't like the iPhone, there can be a lot of reasons behind this. Anyways, it looks like you are not an ordinary user who just uses his or her Android Smartphone for basic stuff, you all are smart.

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You like customizing, rooting, modding, flashing custom ROMs, etc in order to get the most out of your Android Device. Well, you'll need a PC to flash recovery.img, boot.img system.img file or maybe some other ADB commands. With enhancement in Android Technology, the demand of modding and tweaking smartphone ROMs and other customizations has been increased. The customization of Android devices includes rooting their phone, trying different firmware, tweaking Kernel or installing a custom ROM.

These customizations are only possible by unlocking their bootloader and installing a custom recovery. For such kind of crucial tasks, the Android ADB and Fastboot are introduced. Contents. Android Debug Bridge (ADB) This awesome tool makes it easy to send a broad array of terminal commands that includes basic Linux shell commands along with some specialty developer commands. To get these commands on your android device you must have debugging enabled on the device. The tool works in both case as if your device is turned on and booted and even when you are in recovery mode.

The ADB shell is used to send terminal commands and also acts as conjunction with modifying or rooting your smartphone. Fastboot Fastboot tools become necessary when it is required for you to modify your Android device’s firmware. This tool enables your device to send commands to the bootloader that simply means that you can modify/flash things like custom recoveries and other entities. Yes, you cannot flash whole ROMs with the help of fastboot but then also it is crucial for so many things that ADB simply can’t do. Fastboot is not available and enabled for all Android device, so you must check your specific device. Well, no more as we at the GetDroidTips got you covered. Today, in this post, we would be covering on How to install ADB and Fastboot on MAC.

Watch the full video on How to Install Android ADB and Fastboot tool on Mac:. Method 1: How to install ADB and Fastboot on MAC In order to install ADB and Fastboot on MAC, you need to follow these steps carefully:. First of all, download the Latest Mac Minimal ADB and Fastboot on your Mac. You can do so by clicking on the download link below. Now, go to the Desktop on your Mac. Here, create a new folder and name it ADBFASTBOOT (or anything you like and can remember).

Now, extract the Latest Mac Minimal ADB and Fastboot anywhere on your Mac. You now need to copy all the files from the platform-tools folder to the ADBFASTBOOT folder you just created.

Now, open a terminal window on your MAC on the ADBFASTBOOT folder. To do this, go to the Applications Utilities and select Terminal.

Enter the following command on your MAC to go to the ADBFASTBOOT Folder you created before. Cd /Users//Desktop/ADBFASTBOOT. That's it, now you can enter all the ADB commands to flash recoveries, recovery images or zip files.

Now, to test if the ADB Fastboot is working correctly or not simply connect your Android Device to your Mac via a USB Cable and enter the following command: adb devices If you see a device attached, then the ADB Fastboot is working properly on your Mac. Note: You would have to copy all the required files like recovery.img and other zip files to ADBFASTBOOT folder in order to use the ADB and Fastboot commands. Now, if you want to access the ADB and Fastboot Devices from anywhere. Then, you would have to Install the ADB and Fastboot System Wide on your Mac. Let us now take a look at How to Install Fastboot/ADB System Wide On Mac.

Method 2: How to Install ADB Fastboot System Wide On Mac. Now file name will appear inside the Terminal window. Just hit the “ Enter and Return” key. Once you will hit enter key you will be asked for your Account Password as shown in below image. Simply type your Account Password of your Mac OS and hit the Enter Key. You are done!!

It will start executing scripts and install the ADB & USB Fastboot binaries along with the drivers, Once the installation will be finished you will get a wish from it as “Nice Day”. You have successfully installed ADB and Fastboot on your Mac OS.

Now you can run and use ADB and Fastboot on your Mac OS. So that's it guys, this was our take on How to install ADB and Fastboot on MAC. We hope that you found this guide helpful. Just in case, if you have stuck somewhere between the guide or had any queries related to the topic then feel free to leave them in the comments section down below.

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I just downloaded new Mac versions of R and Rstudio, but am getting the following error message when I try to install ggplot2 through the Rstudio interface. Is there an alternative approach? If nothing works, try this:. ggplot2 installation on MAC by AMRIT DHILLON (a) Open and download ggplot2 (tzg) file for MAC DIRECT LINK TO DOWNLOAD IS HERE: (b) Open ggplot2.tgz file with Archive Utility and it will be extracted in a Folder.

(c) Copy ggplot2 Folder. (d) While pressing Option key, Select Go from Finder's Menu, and select and open Library ( Hidden file, only become visible when you select GO while holding Option Key).

(e) From Library go to a Library folder of R: Library R 3.3 Library (Paste ggplot2 folder here) (f) Restart R and you are good to go. Regards, Amrit Dhillon.