You can now download ADB and Fastboot (Android SDK Platform Tools) officially released by Google. Android nerds like us have used ADB, Fastboot and other tools at some point in using Android devices. To install an OTA update, flash factory image or simply to unlock bootloader of our phone, these Android SDK platform tools have been an essential part. Normally, to use ADB or Fastboot you have to which is a part of Android Studio and set it up on your computer. This requires you to download the whole package which is about 2GB in size. That’s a lot if you only need the two most popular Android SDK platform tools: ADB and Fastboot.
As new Android versions release, ages old releases of ADB and Fastboot are no longer compatible with these phones. If you try to unlock a Pixel phone’s bootloader using the old Fastboot version, the process will fail and you may end up with a bricked phone. Similarly, you need to have an updated ADB tool. As platforms update and newer releases are available, Google makes sure they are fixed as soon as possible and newer version is out soon. You can see that below in the official changelog provided by Google.
If you are a developer, it is recommended to download ADB, Fastboot or update them directly from inside the SDK Manager. This ensures the packages are saved to the right place with the rest of your Android SDK platform tools and easily updated.
The following is a list of utilities included as part of the Android SDK Platform Tools. These tools are updated with every new Android version (currently at Android 14) to support new features and APIs. Sometimes, they include smaller updates to improve the tools and fix known bugs.
NOTE: Each update to these tools is backward compatible with older Android platform versions, so always get the latest one.
The latest releases of Android SDK Platform Tools are available below and you can download ADB and Fastboot for various platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux. This page will always have the latest ADB / Fastboot binaries that are also included with the latest release of Android Studio / SDK Manager.
You can download the latest Android SDK Platform Tools 34.0.4 here!
How to Install Android SDK Platform Tools:
Once you download ADB and Fastboot (Android SDK Platform Tools), you do not really need to install it anywhere. The Platform-Tools package is a ZIP file, means you can simply extract it anywhere in your computer. Just make sure you download it for your correct desktop platform.
After extracting the files, simply double-click the adb or fastboot files to start using them.
As mentioned earlier, Minimal ADB and Fastboot is a third-party toolkit modified for developers who only want to download ADB and Fastboot utilities from the above packages. You do not get extra tools with this, hence the much smaller size (around 1MB only). We have a detailed guide on how to download, setup and use this toolkit.
The latest available release is Minimal ADB and Fastboot v1.4.3.
For all the past releases, this is the official changelog of these Android SDK Platform Tools by Google. You can see how often Google update the tools and make sure all bugs are fixed.
Here is what has changed in version 30.0.4 of the platform-tools for Android:
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An official changelog is not yet available from Google, but we spotted this update earlier today. You need this latest Android SDK Platform Tools to update Google Pixel phones to .
If you try flashing the new update / factory image with an older version of Fastboot tool, you will get an error message that fastbootd was required. These tools have been deprecated since then.