Google is opening Android Studio to more than 40 third-party coding agents through a Bring Your Own Agent feature in Android Studio Rabbit 2. Developers can install agents including Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex through a marketplace and connect them using the open Agent Client Protocol.
The integration gives agents access to Android-specific context such as project structure, symbol resolution, the emulator and Logcat. A Change Review tool analyzes proposed edits and explains them, while a preview migration assistant converts older XML layouts toward Jetpack Compose. Google is also testing Lightbuild, a YAML-based build system designed to be readable by both people and agents.
For terminal and continuous-integration workflows, the Android command-line tool can now render Compose previews without starting an emulator and stream physical test devices from Google labs. Google says internal tests completed interface tasks 77% faster while using up to three times fewer tokens, and found memory leaks nearly twice as fast in another test. Those are company benchmarks, not guarantees for every project. The release shifts Android development toward agent-compatible tools while leaving developers responsible for reviewing generated changes and test results.