If you’ve ever tried to root your Android phone or flash a ROM, you may have heard about ADB and/or fastboot. These two tools are surprisingly powerful, but can be a bit overly complex to install.

The “adb sideload” commands allow people to install OTA (over-the-air ... but only if you’re in the platform-tools directory found in the SDK folder. To make things more convenient, you ...

If you find yourself in a situation where you have to download and install platform tools separately on your Windows PC, you can get a ‘.zip’ file for the same from an online repository.

For example, this command installs the package called apple-music-app.apk located in the platform-tools folder: adb install apple_music.apk After you complete the steps, the app will install ...