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.

For quite some time now, the only way to officially get Google’s Android Debug Bridge (ADB) or fastboot tools has been to download either the entire Android Software Development Kit (SDK) or ...

Instead of the usual 400MB to 1.6GB download to install the package required to do basic ADB and Fastboot commands, Google have now packed it all into a single Zip file. For the basic hacker/user ...

Interested Android M users may go ahead and download the latest fastboot and adb executables through the SDK Manager in the Platform Tools package that can be found under rev.23rc2 of the Preview ...

Users can get the FastADB file to download from here. The tool will have the ability to perform basic fastboot and adb commands.