Agents & dev tools · 29 October 2026
Google adds Bring Your Own Agent feature to Android Studio, supports 40+ coding agents
Google added a Bring Your Own Agent feature to Android Studio, supporting over 40 coding agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex. New terminal tools claim agents finish UI tasks 77 percent faster while using up to three times fewer tokens, and Android Bench 2.0 leaderboard measures model performance on multi‑day projects.
Benchmarks are the company's own; not independently verified.
Why it matters
Benchmark your Android Studio onboarding against Google’s BYOA agents; users will expect UI tasks to finish up to 77% faster.
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