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 ...

Now you want to click on extract to extract all the contents to C:\program files (x86)\android\android-sdk\platform-tools (if you installed the full SDK) or whatever directory ADB and Fastboot are ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Google has quietly released its ADB and Fastboot tools as lightweight, independent packages. The company doesn't have a dedicated page for these tools, but Google software Engineer Elliot Hughes ...

Simply download the latest Android SDK from Google, unzip the contents of the file, and head into the Platform-tools folder where adb and fastboot should be located.