The ADB and fastboot tool bundle is a comparatively tiny 3.5MB, versus the 1.6GB it takes to download the Android SDK. We’ve had a guide for a long time that shows the easiest way to get ADB and ...

Google has made ADB and fastboot available as a standalone package, meaning users no longer need to download them with Android Studio or the Android SDK.

Thanks to the work of two Googlers, there are now direct links to the approximately 3.5MB platform-tools folder that includes adb, fastboot, and several other utilities.

Instead of the usual 400MB to 1.6GB download to install the package required to do basic ADB and Fastboot commands, Google have now packed it all into a single Zip file. For the basic hacker/user ...

You can get the platform tools for Windows, Linux, or Mac direct from Google's servers. You get a ZIP file containing the platform tools folder with ADB, fastboot, and a few other tools.

For quite some time now, the only way to officially get Google’s Android Debug Bridge (ADB) or fastboot tools has been to download either the entire Android Software Development Kit (SDK) or ...

The tool will have the ability to perform basic fastboot and adb commands. The zip file is expected to include all files that a script requires, except three files such as boot.img recovery.img ...