Download Android Studio For Mac Os Sierra

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This guide is a part of the series about third-party Android code debugging:

  • For this step, we’ll need a working Mac machine running MacOS Sierra. Once you’ve found a machine with the latest OS version installed, head on to the app store and search for MacOS Sierra. Once you find it, download it onto the system. Just download it, don’t hit install when prompted.
  • Note: Flutter relies on a full installation of Android Studio to supply its Android platform dependencies. However, you can write your Flutter apps in a number of editors; a later step discusses that. Install Android Studio. Download and install Android Studio. Start Android Studio, and go through the ‘Android Studio Setup Wizard’.
  • Debugging third-party Android Java code on OS X (the guide you are reading now)

Google provides Android Studio for the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. (Yosemite) or higher, up to 10.13 (High Sierra) 3 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended (plus 1 GB for the Android. Download android studio for mac for free. Developer Tools downloads - Android Studio by Google and many more programs are available for instant and free download. Android File Transfer. Browse and transfer files between your Mac computer and your Android device. For Mac OS X only. No extra software is needed for.

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There is a very detailed article from @CR0SP about debugging third-party Android Java code on Windows. It’s great and I’d recommend you to read it first, especially if you use Windows. Also, there is another guide on debugging third-party Java code, please read it as well.

In this blog post we are talking about similar things considering specificity of OS X.

You need a Mac and an Android device with “USB debugging” options enabled. The device may be or may not be rooted, it doesn’t matter.

On the Mac,

  1. Install the latest Android Studio. After installation, check Android Studio settings ➡ Appearance & Behavior ➡ System Settings ➡ Android SDK ➡ SDK Tools ➡ Android SDK Platform Tools. The Android SDK Platform Tools must be installed.

  2. Make sure that Android Device Monitor (DDMS) works properly with your Android device. Run

    If it crashes with an error or stuck on start, try to downgrade JDK on the Mac (see Tip #1 below for details). On my Mac, running OS X High Sierra 10.13.2, Android Device Monitor works with JDK 1.8.0_141 or lower; it fails with JDK > 1.8.0_141. You can find old JDKs in the Oracle archive (Oracle account may be needed to download).

    Also, Android Device Monitor may not work properly because of the Android device you use. E.g. on my Meizu M5c it starts, but doesn’t show apps (“Devices” and “Threads” tabs are empty). It looks like a device-specific problem, at the moment I don’t know how to fix it without flashing the device with a custom ROM. So if you face something similar, try another Android device.

  3. Download the latest JAR’s for smali and baksmali and place to any suitable directory. Consider creating shell wrappers (see Tip #2 below for details).

  4. Download the latest smalidea archive and install it to Android Studio (just follow the instruction “Installation” section).

  5. Install 7zip (install Homebrew and then run brew install p7zip in OS X Terminal).

No need to prepare your Android device in some special way, just make sure it works with Android Device Monitor (see step 2 above).

Tip #1. If you want to remove the current version of JDK, run

It will print the JDK’s home directory, e.g.

Remove the JDK home directory (/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-9.0.1.jdk/ in the example above). If it doesn’t help, also remove

Done.

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Tip #2. Consider adding the folder where you placed the smali/baksmali JAR’s, to PATH, and creating simple shell script wrappers for the JAR’s. Here is an example for smali-2.2.2.jar:

So you just type smali.sh in Terminal, instead of annoying java -jar <path/to/>smali-2.2.2.jar. Anyway, further in the guide, I will use smali.sh and baksmali.sh wrappers for the JAR’s.

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For example, let’s debug Java code of Skout:

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  1. Get the original APK. For Skout (as well as for any app, installed from Google Play), you can just copy the APK from the Android device with adb pull:

  2. Baksmali DEX classes from the original APK. Run on your Mac:

  3. Create an Anroid Studio project. Run Android Studio and choose in the main menu: “File” ➡ “New” ➡ “Import Project”. Choose the skout-for-debugging/ directory created at the previous step:

    Click “Open”. Then choose “Create project from existing sources”:

    Click “Next”. On the next step, check if the “Project location” path is correct (it must point to your skout-for-debugging/ directory):

    Click “Next”. Wait while Android Studio is inspecting the directory, then make sure that skout-for-debugging directory is checked:

    Click “Next”. Wait while Android Studio is looking for appropriate frameworks (spoiler: it will not find any). Get the message

    and click “Finish”. Wait while Android Studio is indexing files, then, in the left panel, choose “Project ➡ Project Files”:

    Mark the skout-for-debugging/smali-src/ directory as the sources root:

    The Android Studio project created.

  4. Create a remote configuration. In the main menu of Android Studio, click “Run” ➡ “Edit Configurations…” ➡ “+” ➡ “Remote”:

    On “Configuration tab”, change “Port” to 8700:

    Re-name the configuration, if you want (change the “Name” field). In this example, we will leave it “Unnamed”.

    Click “OK”.

  5. It’s time for Android Device Monitor. Connect your Android device to the Mac via USB, run the app on your Android device, run Device Monitor on your Mac, and choose the app on the “Devices” tab:

  6. Run debugging. Switch back to Android Studio. In the main menu, click “Run” ➡ “Debug ‘Unnamed’” (here “Unnamed” is the name of the remote configuration we created on step 4 above, remember?). As result, Android Studio must say

    Connected to the target VM, address: ‘localhost:8700’, transport: ‘socket’

    in its console:

    Also, the app must be marked with a green bug icon in Android Device Monitor:

Note! Alternatively, you can run Android Monitor before you create the remote configuration, look at the first port number

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and use it in the remote configuration instead of 8700.

Now you can set breakpoints in Dalvik code, trace Dalvik instructions, inspects registers etc.

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