Turn discovery into action with new seamless experiences and integrations from YouTube’s September Demand Gen Drop.
AI-powered developer tools have become an essential multiplier for engineering productivity, with teams adopting specialized AI coding agents, custom enterprise harnesses, and autonomous tools. It’s important for you to be able to build Android apps in the way that works best for you and your team, and agentic Android development is more open and flexible than ever before.
Last year, Android Studio opened up to any AI model. Today, we’re taking the next step by introducing support for your choice of coding agents. With our new Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA) feature, you can seamlessly integrate your preferred coding agent into Android Studio—featuring Anthropic’s Claude Agent, Open AI’s Codex, and Google’s Antigravity—and supercharge it with Android Studio’s AI-optimized infrastructure and tool support.
BYOA pairs your favorite agent with IDE-native intelligence, making it faster, more accurate, and more cost-effective. BYOA is available in the latest Android Studio Canary with benefits including:
Agents can plan and execute complete technical workflows directly in your environment, unlocking powerful use cases:
Agents running in Android Studio also benefit from Android skills and the Android Knowledge Base, ensuring they have access to the latest Android best practices. And if you want to learn more about how agents impact model performance, read more about our latest updates to Android Bench.
Many developers have been using Gemini directly in Android Studio through the built-in agent, and we will continue to offer this experience in Android Studio. However, for the best experience with Gemini, we recommend selecting the Google Antigravity agent for access to the latest Gemini models such as Gemini Flash 3.8, along with increased AI usage quota. You can also login to the Google Antigravity agent with your Google AI Pro or Ultra plan to take advantage of your benefits in Android Studio, or pay per token rates with a Gemini API key.
If your organization is using Gemini Enterprise, you can continue to use the built-in agent or the Antigravity agent. In either case, your organization continues to benefit from the added security and privacy of Google Cloud.
BYOA support is rolling out in preview starting with the canary release of Android Studio Rabbit 2 featuring commonly used agents like Google Antigravity, Claude Agent, and Codex. Both enterprise and consumer AI plans are supported - subject to the agent provider. To connect an agent, follow these steps:
Your feedback is essential as we continue to refine the AI experience in Android Studio. If you find a bug or issue, please file an issue. We can’t wait to see what you build!
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, which brings near real-time visual presence to Gemini’s conversational AI.
Learn about Project Suncatcher, how we’re testing hardware survival for space, designing cooling systems for AI chips, and more.
Google.org is supporting organizations to help veterans and military families find careers in skilled trades.
Uncover the history of nearly 200 historical objects, or put your visual recall to the test in a freshly hung exhibition.
Understanding how users find your content is crucial for any publisher or site owner. As Search evolves to include more visual and multimodal experiences, we want to ensure you have the data you need to analyze your performance.
Today we are announcing the release of v25.2 of the Google Ads API. To use the new capabilities, you must upgrade your client libraries and client code. All the updated client libraries and code examples have been published.
Come join us for a live walkthrough of this release in our Google Ads API Release Highlights event on Discord or our Ads Developers YouTube Live tomorrow (September 24th at 10am ET). This will also be recorded and posted on YouTube for those who can’t make the live events. If you have any questions or want to discuss this post, reach out to us in the #ads-api channel on Discord.
Here are the highlights of what’s new in v25.2:
Posted by Matthew Warner, Product Manager, Android Developer ExperienceBenchmarksService.GenerateBenchmarksMetrics now surfaces metrics representing your competitive standing among other advertisers in percentile tier format using PercentileMetrics and BenchmarksCustomerPercentileTier. You can request this data by adding PERCENTILE_DATA to supplemental_data, setting benchmarks_source to ALL_ADVERTISERS and specifying the category_filter.
SmartCampaignSettingService.GeneratePMaxDraftCampaign method allows you to programmatically generate a Performance Max draft campaign directly from an existing Smart campaign, simplifying your campaign upgrade workflows.
tracking_url_template), custom parameters (url_custom_parameters), and final URL suffixes (final_url_suffix) directly at the asset group level on AssetGroup for Performance Max campaigns.
ContentCreatorInsightsService.GenerateCreatorInsights now supports searching directly by YouTube channel handles in addition to channel IDs, streamlining your creator discovery process.
advance_booking_window, length_of_booking, start_date, start_day_of_week, user_set_dates) along with new vertical ads metrics metrics and segments such as vertical_ads_price_difference_percentage, vertical_ads_price_tier and vertical_ads_potential_impressions.
raise_target_cpa_performance_bid_too_low_recommendation and lower_target_roas_performance_bid_too_low_recommendation) notify you when Target CPA or Target ROAS bids are too low for Search campaigns to enter auctions.Google Ads API v25.2 is a drop-in upgrade for v25. If you use our client libraries, download the latest version of your client library to start using these features. Review the official release notes for a full list of changes. If you have any questions or want to discuss this post, reach out to us on our Google Advertising and Measurement Community Discord server.
For technical support issues, please reach out to the Google Ads API support channel.
Admins can now assign administrator roles to users, groups, or service accounts for a defined period of time. Once the expiration time is reached, the access granted by the role is automatically revoked.
This feature helps minimize security risks by reducing standing privileges and ambient access throughout your organization. It also streamlines administrative overhead, removing the need to manually track and revoke temporary privileges for short-term projects, coverage during employee absences, or external audits.
When assigning a role, super admins can choose from predefined durations (such as 30 days) or set a custom expiration date and time.
Temporary roles cannot be assigned to the primary admin for your organization, as the primary admin requires permanent super admin privileges.
Hello Everyone! We've just released Chrome 155 (155.0.8059.16) for Android to a small percentage of users. It'll become available on Google Play over the next few days. You can find more details about early Stable releases here.
This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.