Installing Android SDK platform-tools with Command Line Tools

Environment

• Ubuntu 16.04

Prerequisites

Install JRE or JDK

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre
or
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

Download the Command Line Tools

• https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html#command-tools

Install sdkmanager

$ mkdir -p ~/android-sdk
$ cd ~/android-sdk
$ unzip ~/Downloads/sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip
$ cd tools/bin
$ ./sdkmanager --help

Install platform-tools

$ ./sdkmanager --list
$ ./sdkmanager "platform-tools"

Install others

$ ./sdkmanager "platforms;android-28" "build-tools;28.0.3"

Add tools to $PATH

$ echo 'PATH=~/android-sdk/platform-tools:~/android-sdk/tools/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile
$ sudo reboot