Google opens Android Studio to more than 40 external AI agents

At its Android Dev Summit, Google opened Android Studio, its tool to make Android apps, to external agents. Developers can use more than 40 external AI agents in it at this time. These include Claude Agent from Anthropic and Codex from OpenAI. The agents get access to tools of the studio, such as the emulator, which copies a phone on a computer.

What is new

The studio uses the open Agent Client Protocol, a standard connection between a tool and an agent. Google also made its Android command-line tool a plugin for external agents such as Claude Code.

A new tool, Change Review, checks the code changes that agents make. Google also added more than 30 Android Skills, which give agents documents on new interfaces.

The numbers

In tests in Google, agents did interface tasks 77 percent faster. They used a maximum of 3 times fewer tokens, the units of text that an AI reads and writes.

In a test with Claude Opus 5.5, agents repaired memory leaks almost 2 times faster.

What is not known

All numbers come from tests by Google. No external test is given. Some new interfaces are in alpha or beta, and one tool to make apps is in test.

Insight: Google lets rival agents in and keeps the way to its apps

In October 2026, Google added the Gemini Agent to Gemini Enterprise, and it can use Claude as its model. At this time, Claude Agent and Codex also operate in Android Studio. At the same summit, Google added a connection that lets apps give functions to agents in Gemini. This reads as a move to be the tool in which agents work, not the only agent. Builders get more tools to select from.