From 280891837e8855499df0499c8078cdf694b71ccd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Romain Vimont Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:11:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Simplify README for Windows users So that users stop downloading platform-tools unnecessarily. --- README.md | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a3e2a464..6f13759f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,12 +14,7 @@ The Android part requires at least API 21 (Android 5.0). You need [adb]. It is available in the [Android SDK platform tools][platform-tools], or packaged in your distribution (`android-adb-tools`). -On Windows, if you use the [prebuilt application](#windows), it is already -included. Otherwise, just download the [platform-tools][platform-tools-windows] -and extract the following files to a directory accessible from your `PATH`: - - `adb.exe` - - `AdbWinApi.dll` - - `AdbWinUsbApi.dll` +On Windows, just [download scrcpy for Windows](#windows), `adb` is included. Make sure you [enabled adb debugging][enable-adb] on your device(s). @@ -94,6 +89,12 @@ For Windows, for simplicity, prebuilt archives with all the dependencies Instead, you may want to build it manually. +In that case, download the [platform-tools][platform-tools-windows] and extract +the following files to a directory accessible from your `PATH`: + - `adb.exe` + - `AdbWinApi.dll` + - `AdbWinUsbApi.dll` + ##### Cross-compile from Linux This is the preferred method (and the way the release is built).