• Posted by Sandhya Mohan, Senior Product Manager and Trevor Johns, Developer Relations Engineer We are excited to announce that Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop is now stable! • This feature-packed release brings a huge update to your agentic workflows in Android Studio, and offers you more flexibility and control for how you use AI to help you build Android apps. • - Bring Your Own Model: You can now use any LLM to power the AI functionality in Android Studio. • - Agent Mode Enhancements: You can now more easily have Agent Mode interact with your app on devices, review and accept suggested changes, and have multiple conversations threads. • - Run user journey tests using natural language: with Journeys in Android Studio. • - Enable Agent Mode to connect to more tools: including the ability to connect to remote servers via MCP.
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- Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop has been released as a stable update, adding extensive AI‑powered workflow enhancements. The new “Bring Your Own Model” (BYOM) option lets developers plug in any LLM-remote services such as OpenAI GPT or Anthropic Claude, or local models from LM Studio or Ollama-while still offering the default Gemini model tuned for Android. Agent Mode now supports multi‑threaded conversations, device interaction, and expanded tool connectivity, including remote servers via MCP. Additional features include natural‑language user‑journey testing, UI agentic experiences, a natural‑language app‑links assistant, automatic Logcat retracing for R8 code, and a fused library plugin to simplify module management.
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