--- title: Agentic and Flexible: A next era of Android development description: Android Studio Rabbit 2 is now stable, letting developers choose their preferred coding agent, such as Claude Agent, Codex, Antigravity, or any of over 40... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-and-flexible-a-next-era-of-android-development-3nxo1vtzh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agentic and Flexible: A next era of Android development | daily.dev og:description: Android Studio Rabbit 2 is now stable, letting developers choose their preferred coding agent, such as Claude Agent, Codex, Antigravity, or any of over 40... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-and-flexible-a-next-era-of-android-development-3nxo1vtzh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3NXO1vtzH.png og:image:alt: Agentic and Flexible: A next era of Android development og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agentic and Flexible: A next era of Android development **[Android Developers Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/androiddev)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Android Studio Rabbit 2 is now stable, letting developers choose their preferred coding agent, such as Claude Agent, Codex, Antigravity, or any of over 40 ACP-compliant agents. Android CLI adds device streaming via Firebase, Compose preview rendering, Perfetto-based profiling, and 30+ 'skills' for tasks like permissions and widget layouts. New agentic APIs include AppFunctions (beta) for exposing app capabilities to agents, A2UI for Jetpack Compose (alpha) for agent-generated native UI, and an Agentic API in ML Kit built on Gemini Nano 4 (alpha). Navigation 3 1.2 is stable with deep links support and richer Predictive back handling, and the upcoming Compose 1.13 brings adaptive layouts with Grid and Flexbox. XREAL AURA is launched as the world's first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR, and core Jetpack XR SDK libraries are now stable. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Can I use Claude Code or Codex instead of Gemini inside Android Studio now? Yes. Android Studio Rabbit 2 is stable and lets you choose your preferred coding agent directly in Android Studio, including Claude Agent, Codex, Antigravity, or any of over 40 ACP-compliant agents, giving access to the full suite of developer tools regardless of which agent you pick. _Developers weighing which coding agent to standardize on can track these integrations on daily.dev._ ### What does the AppFunctions API do for Android agent integrations? AppFunctions is Android's unified tool calling layer, now in beta, that lets an app expose its functionality so it can be used by an on-device agent or a system agent. It is part of Android MCP support for sharing an app's capabilities with any agent. _Those building agent-ready Android apps can keep up with beta APIs like this on daily.dev._ ### What is A2UI in Jetpack Compose? A2UI, or Agent-to-UI, is an alpha feature that lets agents respond with a real interactive UI built from an app's own components instead of plain text. A new native Jetpack Compose renderer integrates it directly into Android apps. _Engineers exploring agentic UI patterns can follow Jetpack Compose updates like A2UI on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [With Android CLI, Google is Making the Android Toolchain Agent-Friendly](https://daily.dev/posts/with-android-cli-google-is-making-the-android-toolchain-agent-friendly-n84xdlayj) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Google launches Android CLI 1.0 for AI coding agents](https://daily.dev/posts/google-launches-android-cli-1-0-for-ai-coding-agents-4ldzl3tzl) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#google-gemini](https://daily.dev/tags/google-gemini), [#jetpack-compose](https://daily.dev/tags/jetpack-compose), [#android-studio](https://daily.dev/tags/android-studio) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-and-flexible-a-next-era-of-android-development-3nxo1vtzh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Agentic and Flexible: A next era of Android development","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-and-flexible-a-next-era-of-android-development-3nxo1vtzh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-and-flexible-a-next-era-of-android-development-3nxo1vtzh"},"datePublished":"2026-10-28T17:06:56.698Z","dateModified":"2026-10-30T17:35:44.176Z","description":"Android Studio Rabbit 2 is now stable, letting developers choose their preferred coding agent, such as Claude Agent, Codex, Antigravity, or any of over 40...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/de9df7c0c727105ae5d765583a5dec23?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/de9df7c0c727105ae5d765583a5dec23?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Android Developers Blog","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Android Developers Blog","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/a3d55bb1d63c48e7bd91b833eb5c2c3c","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/androiddev"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-and-flexible-a-next-era-of-android-development-3nxo1vtzh","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,google-gemini,jetpack-compose,android-studio","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Android Developers Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/androiddev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Agentic and Flexible: A next era of Android development"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-and-flexible-a-next-era-of-android-development-3nxo1vtzh#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Can I use Claude Code or Codex instead of Gemini inside Android Studio now?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes. 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