Android Developers: The latest in Android dev tools from Android Dev Summit 2026

Discover what’s next for Android development across Android Studio and the terminal with Android CLI. In this session, we unveil the latest in Android Studio Canary and Stable—from AI-assisted code migrations to Compose and Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support, to Lightbuild’s declarative architecture. We’ll also dive into the latest updates to the Android CLI toolchain. Learn how you can use it to automate your inner-loop workflows with improved access to devices, diagnostics tools for local and production issues, profiling workflows that let your agents test and validate optimizations and much more.



Speakers: Esteban de la Canal, Adarsh Fernando



Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction to agentic Android development

0:52 - Overview of Android CLI

5:47 - Reproducing and fixing crashes with claude code

10:55 - Running Android apps directly on Linux desktop

13:23 - Official Android plugins for AI agents

21:02 - Bringing AI agents to Android studio

27:17 - Summary of agentic developer workflows



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Event: Android Dev Summit 2026



Products Mentioned: Developer Tools, Android Studio, Android CLI, Jetpack Compose, Lightbuild