connect to your android phone using adb on Mac OS X

1. Download and install Android SDK. adb (Android Debugging Bridge) is located at platform-tools/ directory.
2. Connect to your android phone using adb.
   1. On your android phone, turn on USB debugging: Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB Debugging
   2. Connect the phone to your Mac using the USB cable.
3. Now you can run following adb commands to connect to your phone:

   /opt/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/adb devices

   It should return something like below:

   $ /opt/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/adb devices
   * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
   * daemon started successfully *
   List of devices attached 
   352810040135572 device
   

4. You then using adb commands on your android device, e.g. adb shell to browse the phone's file system.

   /opt/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/adb -s 352810040135572 shell

5. More detail about adb commands.
6. NOTE: remember to turn off USB debugging on your phone.

See Also

• Force apps to install to sd card without root