Android SDK Platform-Tools is a component for the Android SDK. It includes tools that interface with the Android platform, such as adb, fastboot, and systrace. These tools are required for Android app development. They’re also needed if you want to unlock your device bootloader and flash it with a new system image. Although some new features in these tools are available only for recent versions of Android, the tools are backward compatible, so you need only one version of the SDK Platform-Tools.
SDK Platform Tools
Version
37.0.1 (July 2026)
Release Date
2026-07-09
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adb
- Delete
openscreenbackend. The environment variableADB_MDNS_OPENSCREENno longer has any effect. The only mDNS backend islibadbmdns. - Add trace level.
ADB_TRACEformat now accepts a log level (for example:usb:v, services:w). - Linux:
- Improve USB hotplug system. Rely on udev netlink events instead of kernel to avoid race conditions with udev.
- Add blame for the
kill-servercommand. The adb server will print out the process command line chain which requested its termination.
- Windows:
- Improve mDNS backend. Load
wlanapi.dlllazily to allow adb to run on Windows Server that doesn’t includewlanapi.dll. - Introduce
libadbusbto replacelibusb.libadbusbcan be disabled by setting theADB_USB_LEGACYenvironment variable to1.
- Improve mDNS backend. Load
- MacOS:
- Disable
libusb. Use legacy USB backend instead.libusbcan be enabled by setting theADB_LIBUSBenvironment variable to1.
- Disable