Overview
- Google released Android Studio Rabbit 2 and companion Android CLI updates that add a 'Bring Your Own Agent' flow supporting more than 40 Agent Client Protocol (ACP)‑compatible coding agents.
- New CLI commands and features let agents render Compose previews in the terminal and run apps on real devices in Google’s labs through android preview and android device remote.
- Google opened programmatic access for agents to emulators, physical device farms, performance profilers, Android vitals and Firebase Crashlytics so agents can reproduce crashes, run tests and verify fixes.
- In demos Google showed Claude Code using LeakCanary to find and fix memory leaks and reported large speed and token‑use gains, but the company published few details about how those measurements were done.
- Google also launched Android Bench 2.0 to measure agent performance on complex tasks, while observers warn that exposing production data and relying on autonomous scanning raises correctness, security and human‑review challenges.