Alternatives to Android SDK Platform Tools
Official ADB and fastboot tools for talking to Android devices. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Android SDK Platform Tools
Official ADB and fastboot tools for talking to Android devices.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Android SDK Platform Tools.
ADB & Fastboot++
Small Windows installer for ADB and fastboot with a command toolkit.
ADB & Fastboot++ is a small open source Windows-only installer with a menu of common commands, but its bundled binaries lag Google's official releases.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
apktool
Inspect and rebuild resources inside Android application packages.
JADX
Inspect Android bytecode as reconstructed Java code.
Android Studio
Google's official IDE for building Android apps, based on IntelliJ.
Android Emulator
Android Studio's emulator that runs Android system images as virtual devices for testing apps on a computer.
Termux
An Android terminal emulator and Linux environment that installs packages with APT, without root.
