Even if they don’t ever use ADB commands directly, developers benefit from ADB being deeply integrated into other tools like Android Studio.

Google has made ADB and fastboot available as a standalone package, meaning users no longer need to download them with Android Studio or the Android SDK.

After you setup ADB in last week's Android customization, we figured we would put it to more use, here is how to take a screen recording using the ADB shell commands.

However, some might prefer to use the ADB interface through a computer. The setup process involves more than the on-device wireless debugging feature introduced with Android 11.

You can get the platform tools for Windows, Linux, or Mac direct from Google's servers. You get a ZIP file containing the platform tools folder with ADB, fastboot, and a few other tools.

Android Studio is a developer kit that you can use to create and troubleshoot your own Android apps. We'll go over what it is (and what it isn't).

Android 11 Developer Preview 2 includes a new "Wireless debugging" setting to let you connect ADB over a Wi-Fi network instead of USB.