Click here to download and install the Android SDK Tools from Google’s developer site. There are choices for Windows, Mac, and Linux. These instructions are for Windows machines.

How to install the Android SDK While this might all sound quite complicated, there is good news: you don’t need to worry about the Android SDK much at all anymore. For the most part it will be ...

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.

In our last look at ADB in our Android customization series, we go over how to install an app onto your Android device remotely from your connected PC and a locally saved .apk file.

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 ...