Top 3 updates for Android developer productivity

Google announced at I/O 2025 the stable release of Android CLI v1.0 with new features like programmatic version lookup and direct integration with Android Studio. The company also expanded its repository of Android skills to over 17, and added open models like Gemma 4 and Gemini 3.5 Flash to the Android Bench leaderboard for testing LLMs on real-world Android development tasks.

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 . Android CLI https://developer.android.com/tools/agents/android-cli is now stable at version 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 https://developer.android.com/tools/agents/android-cli studio-check . 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. 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. Android CLI is now available through more package managers: like npm and homebrew . For more information, check out the Android CLI blog post https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/android-cli-stable-1-0-agent-development.html and official documentation. https://developer.android.com/tools/agents/android-cli 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 https://developer.android.com/tools/agents/android-cli skills-add and GitHub https://github.com/android/skills . 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: android skills listandroid skills add –skill=<skill-name For more information, check out the official documentation. https://developer.android.com/tools/agents/android-skills Earlier this year, we launched Android Bench https://developer.android.com/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. You asked us to evaluate open models. So, at I/O, we added more commonly used ones, including our local model Gemma 4 , to the leaderboard. We also added the latest models including Gemini 3.5 Flash. We are also working on increasing the difficulty of challenges we’re giving LLMs, including creating long running tasks, to continue encouraging improvements. These tasks will be coming soon to Android Bench. Check out the Android Bench leaderboard https://developer.android.com/bench to see the latest results. By expanding our AI-assisted Android development offerings to Antigravity, through Android CLI and Android skills, and solidifying with the pro capabilities and production grade polish of Android Studio, we’re supporting Android developers wherever they choose to build. Have fun bringing your ideas to life faster and easier than ever before - we’re excited to see what you build in this new era of agentic development. Check out the full Developer productivity at Google I/O 2026 YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-XnEzj1 CBClxpkGwYQeLy for more information.