Google opens Android Studio to third-party AI agents
What happened
On 29 October 2026, Google announced Android Studio Rabbit 2 at the Android Dev Summit, supporting more than 40 coding agents inside the IDE through the open-source Agent Client Protocol, including Claude Agent, Codex and Google Antigravity. Earlier reports said Google would open Android developer summit access to third-party AI agents; this report further clarifies how the integration works and what is supported. The current status is that Android Studio Rabbit 2 has been released with support for multiple third-party coding agents.
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- The DecoderSelectedGoogle opens Android development to third-party AI agents and unveils new Gemini APIs
Google is opening up Android Studio to third-party AI agents. Through a new "Bring Your Own Agent" feature, the IDE now supports more than 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex. Google says new terminal tools also help agents finish UI tasks 77 percent faster while using up to three times fewer tokens.
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