· ai-devtools
Google just handed its rivals the keys to Android
Google is giving coding agents like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex deeper access to its Android development tools, including devices, performance profilers and production crash reports; now, agents can now investigate bugs, test changes, and verify their own fixes.
The push spans Android Studio and the terminal-based Android CLI, with Google opening both to third-party agents rather than steering developers toward Gemini. Matthew McCullough, vice president of product for Android, has emphasized giving developers the freedom to choose their own models and coding agents.
In a Wednesday post, Adarsh Fernando, senior product manager for Android developer tools, describes the goal as giving developers and their agents "the tools and knowledge to build high-quality Android apps faster." The updates were unveiled Wednesday at Android Dev Summit. Bring your own agent The company's Bring Your Own Agent feature now supports more than 40 coding agents that speak the open Agent Client Protocol, among them Anthropic's Claude Agent, OpenAI's Codex, and Google's own Antigravity, and Google says the feature is now stable in Wednesday's release of Android Studio Rabbit 2.
