Windows/Mac/Linux: Google’s ADB and fastboot are incredibly powerful command line tools for customizing your Android phone. Up until now, these tiny tools have been bundled in the gigantic ...

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.

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.

Thanks to the work of two Googlers, there are now direct links to the approximately 3.5MB platform-tools folder that includes adb, fastboot, and several other utilities.

So, let’s check out how you can download and install Fastboot drivers on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC. What is ADB?

When you set up ADB, you’ll get fastboot commands, too. Fastboot commands like “fastboot flash” will allow you to install custom recoveries and kernels. Download the Android SDK or the One ...

If you want to download and install Google USB Driver on a Windows 11/10 computer, this post outlines the steps on how to do so.