Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025.

This is a pretty significant update for how Android apps are built, tested, and rolled out to the Play Store. Android Studio Narwhal (2025.2.1) has deep integration with Gemini 2.5 Pro models.

When building Android TV apps, developers can call on Compose for TV to lay all the UI groundwork with minimal effort. According to Google, you'll just have to "Describe your UI, and Compose takes ...