Updating SDK 2.3 - what exactly are the SDK Platform tools? - android

I wish to update my SDK 2.3 to the latest revision of 2.3. I don't want to update to 3.0 preview and lose the GPS emulation and have a slow emulator. 2.3 is just fine for me. I've updated the ADT plugin to 9.0.0 by the Eclipse 'check for updates'.
If I run the AVD manager from Eclipse and look at my installed packages, I have installed :
and the available packages with the ones that I think I want checked are:
My question is: what do I get with the platform tools? Is it just what goes in the platform-tools folder (i.e. the aapt.exe, adb.exe etc)? I don't want to overwrite the tools folder and end up with the slow emulator.

Yes, platform-tools are adb.exe and friends. You will also want Android SDK Tools, revision 9 as well, and don't worry about Honeycomb stuff - even if you do install them, they won't interfere with you (for example you can filter on platform version within the developer docs).

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How to change Android SDK Platform-Tools?

I have two Windows 10 machines with the latest Visual Studio 2017 (15.9.18) installed. But one of the machines has a different Android SDK Platform-Tools version in the Android SDK Manager:
One has 28.0.0 and the other one has 29.0.1. How can I get them on the same version?
Now I found a way to change the Android SDK Platform-Tools. You can download the versions from here:
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r29.0.1-windows.zip
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r28.0.0-windows.zip
Then go to your Android SDK Location (for me it is C:\Users\some-user\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools) and put the files from the archive in this directory. Make a backup first - just in case.
Don't know why you can't do this in the Android SDK manager (Android SDKs and Tools Version 1.2.192 (d15-9/9312139)) itself and why he doesn't offer an upgrade after initial installation of Xamarin.

How to add newer Android Sdk's to ADT plugin (Eclipse)?

This is my first question in this site so forgive me if this is asked before.
My Laptop is very humble (Acer 5733Z) and can't run Android Studio conveniently and the CPU does not have the virtualization feature to support emulator so I use the eclipse ADT plugin for developing simple apps for android since it runs smoothly without any problems.
But the problem is that i have only up to API17 (Android 4.2) SDK installed and when I open the SDK manager to install the newer SDK' it doesn't show any newer API's as shown :
SDK manager screenshot
So, Is there any way to add SDK's manually or something ?
Any help would be extremely appreciated.
IIRC, you need to update the "SDK Tools" and "SDK Platform-tools" entries before you can download newer SDKs. You will see those highlighted with yellow download arrows, and if you click the "Install 3 packages" button, the SDK Manager will download and upgrade those packages.
you want to update your SDK Tools for newer version of android
latest is r24.4.1 in this version android 6 now available
you can see this link for detail of all sdk tools version
Click here

Install android sdk in eclipse without downloading full os

I would like to install the SDK for several android platforms on my chromebook using Ubuntu with crouton when I get it. The problem is that the chromebook I might get only has 16gb minus the OS. Installing the android SDK to eclipse also seems to install the whole emulator as well and it takes up A LOT of storage. Last time I did it I install 3 SDKs and the total space was almost 10gb.
Is there a way to install just the bare essentials for android development?
I don't want to run an emulator since I have several devices at my disposal and the chromebook won't be able to handle it anyway. Thanks! :)
Assuming you already have a JDK installed, the bare minimum you need for Android development is the standalone SDK, the platform tools, and at least one version of the Android platform. All of that takes up less than 1/2gb.
You can get the standalone SDK from here. Scroll down to the bottom and it's under Other Download Options / SDK Tools only. Once you have that downloaded and unzipped somewhere, go into the android-sdk-linux/tools directory and run the android command there. It will popup the Android SDK manager. Uncheck everything except for the following and click install:
Tools
Android SDK Platform-tools
Android SDK Build-tools
Android 5.1.1. (API 22) // or different version
SDK Platform
Google APIs
Extras
Android Support Library
other packages if your app needs them
You can find more information about how to use the standalone SDK for setting up your project and whatnot here.

Install old system image with Android Tools R21

I'm stumped after doing a fresh install of Android Development Tools r21. http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
I've installed this and I am looking to create an AVD for Android 2.1 (API 7) to test some things, but I cannot find an option to install the Android 2.1 system image. In fact, nothing prior to Android 4.0 is an available system image for an AVD.
I've installed the SDK Platform but it doesn't include the system image. Based on the Official Add-on Sites, I tried to go to https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img.xml but this is essentially an empty XML file.
I've also checked the ADT Known Issues http://tools.android.com/knownissues
Finally, from How install old ADT13 in Eclipse I gleaned the possible add-on site of https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml, but that doesn't pull anything into the SDK Manager either.
Does anyone know how to get this working?
Android SDK Manager
Android SDK Manager - Add-on Sites
I've solved my own issue. Apparently starting in Android Developer Tools R21
System images of Android 4.0 and newer
Installed by checking the ARM EABI v7a System Image box in the Android SDK Manager
System images of older than Android 4.0
Installed by checking the SDK Platform box in the Android SDK Manager
This was the source of confusion.
Additionally you must restart Eclipse to get it to be an available option, which I didn't do.

Android SDK: Update platform tools

I currently have Android SDK Platform-tools 14 installed. (Edit: Seems to be the current version)
Since this has a bug that makes Logcat unusable and it seems to be fixed in newer versions, Id like to update it.
How can this be done?
SDK Mangager.exe does not find a newer version than 14. I restarted it multiple times and installed all available updates.
The android page says the current version is 20 but they don't provide a download.
Installing the latest SDK starter package doesn't solve it.
Screenshot:
The Google page is talking about the tools not for platform tools.Actually there are two different folders in SDK one is tools and one is platform-tools so as per the latest release there latest version is
for platform-tools :platform Tools
for tools :Tools
so if you are having problem just download the zip and replace the old one with new one installed.
if you are getting problem with the new catlog use the old one (LogCat-Deprecated).
Launch standalone SDK manager and not from Eclipse. It then should fetch list of available packages and offer you to update all old packages, as your ADT v14 is quite ancient.
Alternatively, if everything else fail, you always can fetch ADT by hand from http://tools.android.com, unpack tools to your , replacing old stuff and then installing Eclipse plugin. Please note you need to download both and install as latest version will not work with outdated packages.

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