Top 3 updates for Android developer productivity

Posted by Simona Milanovic, Developer Relations Engineer Every year, Google I/O brings new announcements and resources across ecosystems and products, including Android development. As development shifts toward AI and agent-assisted tooling, we’ve expanded our offerings to better support you, however you decide to build for Android. To help you stay up to date, here is a summary of the top 3 announcements for Android Developer Productivity at I/O .

1. 0 , with more capabilities and integrations. The latest version of Android CLI introduces many new features, like programmatic version lookup and support for Journeys, and bridging capability to allow agents to integrate directly with Android Studio , via the studio command .

Running Android Studio alongside the agent and Android CLI enables more efficient navigation in your project, more precise output, and access to Android Studio’s unique tooling , such as performance profilers, Compose Previews, and Android Device Streaming. Android CLI now integrates seamlessly with Android Studio Additionally, Google Antigravity now officially supports Android development, with the Android resources bundle , which includes the Android CLI and skills. You can either install the bundle during onboarding after installation, or later from the Settings > Customizations > Build With Google Plugins menu.

This provides Antigravity with all the powerful tools and knowledge of Android CLI to enable it to perform core tasks—from creating projects to deploying your app on a new virtual device—much more easily and efficiently.   For more information, check out the Android CLI blog post and official documentation. 2.

Android skills keep growing To help models gain expertise for specific development patterns that follow our best practices, we are continuing to expand our repository of Android skills , available through Android CLI and GitHub . Android skills ground LLMs in specialized workflows and domain knowledge, for the most common and more complex user journeys they might struggle with. We’ve shipped a fresh new batch of skills, with now more than 17 skills for areas such as: Adaptive UI Display Glasses and Jetpack Compose Glimmer for XR Migration to CameraX Perfetto SQL and Trace Analysis Jetpack Compose Styles API AppFunctions Verified email retrieval with Android Credential Manager Engage SDK integration Testing setup Wear OS Jetpack Compose Material3 Android skills keep growing You can browse skills and install using the Android CLI commands: android skills list android skills add –skill=<skill-name> For more information, check out the official documentation.

3. Android Bench adds new models Earlier this year, we launched Android Bench - our leaderboard for testing LLMs on real-world Android development challenges and tasks, with the goal of accelerating model improvements, so you have more helpful options for AI assistance. Latest results from Android Bench leaderboard You asked us to evaluate open models.