Having ADB and fastboot available outside of the other two main downloads, first of all, saves space. Android SDK takes up 292 MB of space.

A Nexus device along with a USB cable to connect it to your computer. The Android SDK installed on your machine with ADB and Fastboot command successfully working. Here’s a tutorial on how to do ...

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.

Users can check this tutorial to set up ADB and Fastboot for Android on Windows, but IBTimes UK will not be held responsible for any consequences. Download the latest version of Android SDK from here ...

Ron Amadeo Next you'll need to put your device in "Fastboot" mode, which will allow you to wipe out the current Android install and send over a new version from a desktop computer.

Interested Android M users may go ahead and download the latest fastboot and adb executables through the SDK Manager in the Platform Tools package that can be found under rev.23rc2 of the Preview ...