Android Studio adds Bring Your Own Agent, letting developers run Claude Agent, Codex and other ACP-compatible coding agents in the IDE

Thu, Oct 29 00:00 UTC+8Updated Thu, Oct 29 00:59 UTC+8

At Android Dev Summit on October 28, Google released Android Studio Rabbit 2 as stable with Bring Your Own Agent: developers can run more than 40 coding agents in the IDE via the open Agent Client Protocol (ACP), including Anthropic's Claude Agent, OpenAI's Codex and Google Antigravity. The Android CLI is now an official plugin for Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity.

Why it matters

Google opens its official Android IDE to rival coding agents via the open ACP standard, so Android developers are no longer tied to Gemini tooling.

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Android Developers BlogMediaThu, Oct 29 00:00 UTC+8Your favorite agents are now integrated in Android StudioView original · Thu, Oct 29 00:00 UTC+8
The DecoderMediaThu, Oct 29 00:59 UTC+8Google opens Android development to third-party AI agents and unveils new Gemini APIsView original · Thu, Oct 29 00:59 UTC+8

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