Skip checkup failing "adb could not be found in the PATH"

[bonhor]

getting this error when doing skip checkup after an install:

skip checkup
[✓] Skip version 1.9.5 (= 1.9.5)
[✓] macOS version 26.6 (> 13.5.0)
[✓] macOS architecture: ARM
[✓] Swift version 6.3.3 (> 5.9.0)
[✓] Swiftly version 1.1.3 (> 1.0.0)
[✓] Xcode version 26.6 (> 15.0.0)
[✓] Xcode tools SDKs: 5
[✓] Homebrew version 6.0.15 (> 4.1.0)
[✓] Gradle version 9.6.1 (> 8.6.0)
[✓] Java version 26.0.2 (> 17.0.0)
[✗] An executable tool named 'adb' could not be found in the PATH, nor was it specified as part of the command-line flags.
[✗] Skip 1.9.5 checkup failed with 1 error
See https://skip.dev/docs/faq and https://forums.skip.dev for help
See output log for error details: /tmp/skip-checkup-2026-08-05T15:07:50Z.txt
Error: 2 errors

not sure how to fix it!

[paulodearaujo]

skip checkup is failing because adb itself is missing from the shell's PATH. The Swift Android SDK installed by Skip and Android's platform tools are separate pieces.

The quickest fix on macOS with Homebrew is:

brew install --cask android-platform-tools
adb version
command -v adb
skip checkup

That cask installs Google's Android SDK Platform-Tools, which contains adb.

If Android Studio is already installed, you probably have adb under ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools and only need to expose it to the shell. For zsh:

export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/Library/Android/sdk"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"

Put those two lines in ~/.zshrc, open a new terminal, and verify that command -v adb prints a real path before rerunning skip checkup.

skip android sdk install installs/manages the Swift Android SDK used by Skip; it does not replace the Android platform-tools prerequisite checked here. The rest of your checkup is already green, so once adb resolves this specific failure should be gone.