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
36.0.2 (September 2025)
Release Date
2025-10-09
Platform
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- adb
- Make legacy USB backend the default on Linux (instead of libusb) due to instability reports (device disconnection, interface read failure, and delayed netlink events preventing device detection).
- Fix bug where Samsung devices were not properly detected (b/404741058).
- Fix bug where old Android devices using USB class Miscellaneous (0xEF) were not properly detected (b/365009755).
- Fix bug where last character of a file was truncated when pulled or pushed [Windows only] (b/439152273).