anybody know how to handle the installation of ionic app on a phone when developing on mac??
What do you mean handle the installation? You do need the Android SDK and NDK installed.
https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#top
Also there are some tools which are required to be in your PATH environment variables.
Short version on how to try your app on Android is:
- Build with
ionic build android
- Copy/email
platforms/android/ant-build/MainActivity-debug.apk
to the phone