Ionic android when developing on mac

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:

  1. Build with ionic build android
  2. Copy/email platforms/android/ant-build/MainActivity-debug.apk to the phone