Practical AI for Android Developers with Android Studio’s AI Agent

Android Studio’s AI agent is bringing a new level of practicality to Android development.

In this talk, we’ll explore the latest features of the AI in Android Studio and see how it can simplify everyday tasks. We’ll showcase how it handles complex, multistep workflows like refactoring large codebases, generating and running tests, updating dependencies, and fixing stubborn build errors.

We’ll also dive into its UI-focused capabilities: instantly turning visual designs and screenshots into production-ready Jetpack Compose code, transforming UIs with natural language commands in the Compose Preview, generating previews with realistic sample data, and even suggesting accessibility fixes or adaptive layouts.

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1. Practical AI for Android Developers with AI in Android Studio’s Yves Kalume
2. GDE & Android Developer at Moneco (YC S22) Yves Kalume @kalumeyves
3. So…
4. Why am I using AI Product Business System architecture …
5. How we used to build with AI
6. Agentic AI
7. Gemini in Android Studio Provides AI assistance at every stage of the software development lifecycle.
8. Write and refactoring code
9. Write or Refactor Code • Autocompletion
10. Write or Refactor Code • Autocompletion • Transform code
11. Write or Refactor Code • Autocompletion • Transform code • Agent mode
12. AGENTS.md • Like a Readme, but for AI • You can generate it with AI • Explain counterintuitive piece of code • Can be modularized
13. Prompt Library Save and manage frequently used prompts
14. Building UIs
15. UI Development work fl ow Implement UI in Code Get Feedback & Iterate Get the Specs from the Designer Generate compose preview Multimodale chat Transform UI with Gemini
16. Multimodal chat with Gemini • Transform UI image to Code
17. Multimodal chat with Gemini • Transform UI image to Code • Build a design system
18. Generate compose preview Makes it easier to preview your Composable layouts
19. Transform UI with Gemini Transform UI using natural language directly in the preview.
20. Unit Testing
21. I don’t trust AI for unit tests
22. Generate Unit Test Scenarios You need to implement the body of each test yourself.
23. E2E Testing
24. Journeys for Android Studio • Functional tests using Natural language • Fewer flaky tests
25. UI Tests with Natural Language • Functional tests using Natural language • Fewer flaky tests • Just an XML
26. UI Tests with Natural Language <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <journey name="My fi rst Journey"> <description xml:space="preserve">My Journey that tests</description> <actions xml:space="preserve"> <action>In the text fi eld enter "Yves Kalume" and tap "Connect"</action> <action>Verify that the pro fi le page is shown</action> </actions> </journey>
27. App Quality
28. App Quality Insight • Analyzes crash reports from Play Vitals and Firebase Crashlytics • Gives a crash summary • Recommends next steps, with sample code and relevant documentation
29. MCP
30. MCP Support Expand the capabilities of Gemini's Agent Mode with third-party integrations.
31. Another cool one !
32. Generate Commit Messages Use the context from the code changes to suggest a detailed commit message.
33. Experimental Features
34. Final thoughts
35. Thank you !
36. We love feedback here