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
37.0.0 (February 2026)
Release Date
2026-03-03
Platform
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adb
- The default mDNS backend is now
libadbmdns. Libraryopenscreenis still included as a failover but is deprecated. - Libadbmdns now also return .local hostname as part of services metadata.
- Linux USB backend now uses netlink instead of an active loop to detect devices addition/deletion.