Android SDK Platform Tools

Android SDK Platform Tools

Android SDK Platform-Tools is a component for the Android SDK contains tools that interface with the Android platform, such as adb, fastboot, and systrace. These tools are required for Android app development. They're also needed if you want to unlock your device bootloader and flash it with a new system image.This tool is backward compatible, so you need only one version of the SDK Platform-Tools.

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All the packages were taken directly from the official Google's Android host.

All Android SDK Platform Tools by API,Version and OSes
NoPackage NameAPIVersionOSSize (MB)
1Android SDK Platform-Tools.zip↓3434.0.5MACOSX10.68 MB
2Android SDK Platform-Tools.zip↓3434.0.5LINUX6.04 MB
3Android SDK Platform-Tools.zip↓3434.0.5WINDOWS5.64 MB

How to install offline Android SDK Platform Tools?

This package will ALWAYS be installed on the same path regardless of the newer versions available.
It CAN NOT be installed side-by-side with other versions and it's install path DOES NOT follow Android API numbering scheme.
Upon updates, it overrides previous installation completely.
You can install ONLY ONE VERSION for this package installation.
Platform Tools is always backward compatible with Platform Compiler and Build Tools, so if in the list above you see Platfrom Tools version number is higher than Compiler/Build Tools API level mentioned in this page,no need to worry because it works for them.
The offline installation is done using Bash's unzip that is widely avaialble on Windows (with WSL), Linux and Mac.However you can use whatever unzipping/decompressing/extracting tools you like that support extracting .zip, but please pay attention carefully so that the package is installed correctly and is recognized.We use Bash's unzip for this purpose , respectively.

  • Download the latest version of the packages available above.If it has different OSes, choose one that match your development OS.
  • After finished, you can DISCONNECT any internet connections.
  • Locate the downloaded .zip pacakge into accessible location, as you will need that location for installation purpose.
  • Open up CLI/CMD, for Windows make sure you have WSL or Bash for Windows support.
  • Now follow the steps below, it mimics CMD interface to make it easier for you:

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CMD Install Android SDK Platform Tools manually
@usr~
$ cd $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT1
@usr$ANDROID/SDK/ROOT
$ rm -rf platform-tools && unzip path/to/platform-tools_r34.0.5-darwin.zip -d .(2.A macosx)
@usr$ANDROID/SDK/ROOT
$ rm -rf platform-tools && unzip path/to/platform-tools_r34.0.5-linux.zip -d .(2.B linux)
@usr$ANDROID/SDK/ROOT
$ rm -rf platform-tools && unzip path/to/platform-tools_r34.0.5-windows.zip -d .(2.C windows)

  1. cd $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
    First, go to the root directory of Android SDK installation. On Windows you might also type:cd %ANDROID_SDK_ROOT%
    Remember! You should only proceed to the next step if only you already in the root directory of Android SDK.
  2. Now, from rootdir of Android SDK, locate the package you've downloaded and then extract the package based on your OS.
    Make sure to change the /path/to/ with absolute path that points to actual downloaded package file location on your local disk.
    1. [macosx Only]
      rm -rf platform-tools && unzip path/to/platform-tools_r34.0.5-darwin.zip -d .
      extract the package archive as-is from the root SDK directory, to install version 34.0.5 on macosx
    2. [linux Only]
      rm -rf platform-tools && unzip path/to/platform-tools_r34.0.5-linux.zip -d .
      extract the package archive as-is from the root SDK directory, to install version 34.0.5 on linux
    3. [windows Only]
      rm -rf platform-tools && unzip path/to/platform-tools_r34.0.5-windows.zip -d .
      extract the package archive as-is from the root SDK directory, to install version 34.0.5 on windows
  3. DONE! :D

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