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At the Android Dev Summit, Google launched the Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA) feature for Android Studio Rabbit 2. Through the open Agent Client Protocol, developers can run more than 40 coding agents simultaneously within the IDE, including Claude Agent, Codex, and Google Antigravity, with direct access to the project structure, emulator, and Logcat. Google says that in internal testing, agents completed UI tasks 77% faster after rendering Compose previews in the terminal, with token usage reduced to as little as one-third; in an A/B test using Claude Opus 5.5, the built-in LeakCanary CLI found and fixed memory leaks nearly twice as fast, with about 25% fewer tokens. There are currently no further developments.
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At the Android Dev Summit, Google launched the Bring Your Own Agent feature for Android Studio Rabbit 2. Through the open Agent Client Protocol, developers can run more than 40 coding agents simultaneously within the IDE, including Claude Agent, Codex, and Google Antigravity, with direct access to project structure, the emulator, and Logcat. Google says that in internal tests, after agents rendered Compose previews in the terminal, they completed UI tasks 77% faster and cut token usage to as little as one-third; in an A/B test using Claude Opus 5.5, the CLI with built-in LeakCanary found and fixed memory leaks nearly twice as fast, with about 25% fewer tokens. On the on-device side, Google added an Agentic API alpha powered by Gemini Nano 4 to ML Kit, and launched the MCP-based AppFunctions API beta and the Agent-to-UI interface; it also partnered with XREAL to release the Android XR smart glasses XREAL AURA, priced at $1,099 and shipping in mid-November.