Install latest/stable of android-platform-tools

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.


Install using the command line

sudo snap install android-platform-tools

Don't have snapd? Get set up for snaps.

Channel Version Published

Android development tools

Tools commonly used for Android development. Currently the following tools are supported:

  • adb
  • fastboot
  • mke2fs.android (required by fastboot)
  • simg2img, img2simg, append2simg
  • mkbootimg, unpack_bootimg, repack_bootimg, avbtool

In order to enable the full featureset you will have to grant permissions to this Snap:

sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:adb-support

sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:block-devices

sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:raw-usb

sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:removable-media

sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:network

sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:network-bind

Creating system-wide aliases is also possible:

sudo snap alias android-platform-tools.adb adb

sudo snap alias android-platform-tools.fastboot fastboot

Details for android-platform-tools

License
  • Apache-2.0

Last updated
  • 29 June 2024 - latest/stable
  • 29 June 2024 - latest/edge

Source code

Report a bug

Report a Snap Store violation

Share this snap

Generate an embeddable card to be shared on external websites.


Install android-platform-tools on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the installing snapd documentation.


Where people are using android-platform-tools

Users by distribution (log)

Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 24.10
Zorin OS 17
Debian 12
Fedora 41
Manjaro
Ubuntu 18.04
KDE Neon 24.04
Linux Mint 22
pop 22.04
Fedora 40
Kali Linux 2024.4
Linux Mint 21.3
Ubuntu 23.10
Debian 6.2
Debian sid
Kali Linux 2024.3
KDE Neon 22.04