I did want to do this, but there's no easy reliable source of adb to download. Ideally the protocol would be simple enough that we could implement it, but it's not.

As I don't know how to do, I'm closing this.

Why there is no reliable source? platform-tools_r24.0.3-windows.zip from any update mirror, like http://mirrors.neusoft.edu.cn/android/repository/

When I looked into it there were no obvious rules to follow for versioning. I decided it was easier to say "install android studio".

Do you mean that Eclipse update site is hard to parse to find archives like platform-tools_*.zip? Or did I miss something else?

I mean, in platform-tools_*.zip, what goes in the *? There are lots of decisions we could make (a fixed vetted value, the latest, etc), but no obvious one. I would much rather say "use Android Studio".

And what is the * in the NDK? I guess it is just current version, no? Even fixed value is better than no value.