In a time when the way you work is changing, your craft, creativity, and expertise are needed more than ever. Today at the Android Dev Summit, we annouced the broad availability of many tools and APIs designed to remove everyday friction and give you more flexibility to build great Android apps. These updates help you code smarter and faster, offer solutions for agentic experiences, and help simplify scaling across a wide variety of screen sizes.
With the number of new models and agents increasing every day, we’ve heard that you want the flexibility to select the ones that suit your particular work best. You now have more flexibility than ever before with updates to Android Studio and Android CLI to make it even easier for your agents to build high quality Android apps.
Android Studio Rabbit 2 is stable today, letting you choose your preferred coding agent, such as Claude Agent, Codex, Antigravity, or any of over 40 ACP-compliant agents, directly in Android Studio to harness its full suite of developer tools.
To support developers and businesses in the emerging agentic landscape, we are introducing new APIs designed to simplify the creation of rich, engaging user experiences.
To help developers connect with high-intent users across Gemini and Search, we are introducing the new Connected Apps Platform. You can build natively using Android MCP or remote MCP, prototype using Gemini dev mode, and register through the Google Connected Console preview program when you are ready for production.
Expanding your app across the growing Android ecosystem allows you to engage users wherever they are, creating new touchpoints and driving deeper interaction. We continuously develop new APIs to simplify app adaptation and enable unique experience layering. With new Jetpack Compose-first foundations, adaptive building blocks, and agentic UI features, you can seamlessly scale your app's architecture and UI across many form factors.
With the arrival of Googlebook, your apps can now scale seamlessly across phones and laptops without requiring a separate codebase. The Compose adaptive skill helps agents transform mobile apps to scale across phones, foldables, Googlebook, tablets, parked cars and XR.
Today we have updated it to make it faster and easier to make your existing apps ready for desktop. The Adaptive skill can now audit your Compose UI to find and implement keyboard shortcuts, custom pointer cursors, hover states and tooltips for buttons and controls. In addition to understanding navigation and migrating layouts to Grid, FlexBox, and mediaQuery, it now explicitly handles end-to-end state management across the app.
And finally the skill now also includes foldable posture optimizations, such as automatically refactoring media and camera screens into tabletop layouts. Next year Google Play will be looking closely at how your app or game runs on a foldable and providing you more opportunities to showcase how you’ve built adaptively. For apps, make sure to optimize by using the Compose adaptive skill and follow the Android adaptive quality guidelines. For games, follow the adaptive games guidelines. We’ll announce details on what is required for the Google Play store later this year.
Today, together with XREAL, we launched XREAL AURA, the world’s first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR, along with the graduation of several core libraries and tools to stable.
We are eager to receive your feedback on these new tools and capabilities. We look forward to your ideas on how we can continue improving our tools to support your app development journey.
Announced today during The Android Show, Android is transitioning from an operating system to an intelligence system, creating more opportunities for engagement with your apps.
Since launching the Android XR SDK Developer Preview alongside Samsung, Qualcomm, and Unity last year, we’ve been blown away by all of the excitement we’ve been hearing from the broader Android community.
Apps that target the upcoming Android release will no longer be able to directly write to contacts with the WRITE_CONTACTS permission.
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