Google no longer insists that the assistant inside its IDE be its own. At the Android Dev Summit, the Rabbit 2 build of Android Studio added Bring Your Own Agent, a feature that lets more than 40 outside coding agents run through the open Agent Client Protocol.
Claude, Codex and Google Antigravity install from a built-in marketplace and can work in parallel, with access to project structure, symbol resolution, the emulator and Logcat. Google also pushed Android Bench 2.0, a leaderboard that scores models on multi-day builds by functionality, time and cost, plus Change Review for auditing messy generated diffs, a Canary helper converting old XML layouts to Jetpack Compose, and Lightbuild, a YAML build system agents can read.
The command line got equal weight. Android CLI now ships as an official agent plugin for Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity, and new commands let an agent render Compose previews in a terminal instead of booting an emulator. Google’s internal testing found UI work completed 77 percent faster with up to three times fewer tokens; an A/B run on Claude Opus 5.5 located and fixed memory leaks roughly twice as quickly while shaving about 25 percent off token use, thanks to LeakCanary being wired into the CLI and the Profiler. More than 30 Android Skills feed agents documentation on Play policy, permissions and foldable layouts.
On the device side, an alpha Agentic API backed by Gemini Nano 4 lands in ML Kit, handling functions, chat history, orchestration and safety filters on-device. AppFunctions in beta pairs with MCP as a shared tool-calling layer.
Google and XREAL also showed the AURA, wired smart glasses under 95 grams that project up to five Android windows on Snapdragon Reality Elite, priced at $1,099 and shipping from mid-November.
