December 30, 2023 Why Android developers no longer need Windows USB drivers In the early days of the platform, Android developers working from Linux and Mac OS X connected their device via an USB cable and were good to go. Windows users had to find and then install drivers. That was super-annoying. Nowadays there is no more need for drivers. What happened? USB Driver/OS 101When you plug an USB device into a port, the operating system needs to load drivers for its interface(s). This is done by in...