The Android “platform-tools” is a command line functionality used almost exclusively by app developers. Usually accompanied by the Android SDK Manager, they come in handy for complicated tasks ...

android-studio-ide-181.5056338-windows.exe includes an installer and the Android SDK command-line tools. If you don’t need or want to use Android Studio, you can download only the Android SDK ...

If your command prompt isn’t open to the location where you extracted the Platform Tools, however, you would have to type something like this: c:\Android\platform-tools\adb.exe devices ...