Android Skills

Android skills

Android skills are a dedicated repository of AI-optimized, modular instructions and resources, to help agents better understand and execute specific patterns that follow the best practices and guidance on Android development from developer.android.com.

Android skills follow the open-standard agent skills - markdown files (SKILL.md) that provide a technical specification of a task, and ground LLMs with information on specialized domains and workflows.

Our Android skill development focuses on use cases and workflows where evaluations show LLMs underperform. We aren't prioritizing well-established areas where LLMs are already proficient, such as basic Jetpack Compose best practices.

To learn more, read the official documentation:

• Android skills
• Android CLI
• Android Studio

Install Android skills

Use Android CLI to install a specific skill into the current directory:

android skills add r8-analyzer --project=.

Use Android CLI to install all Android skills to directories for all detected agents:

android skills add --all

If you don't have any existing agent directories and don't specify particular agents, the skills will be installed for Gemini and Antigravity at ~/.gemini/antigravity/skills.

Options:

• --all - Add all Android skills. If omitted, only the android-cli skill will be installed.
• --agent - A comma-separated list of agents to install the skill for. If omitted, the skill will be installed for all detected agents.
• --project - Path to a project root in which to install the skills.

To update all skills or specific ones, run:

android skills update --all
android skills update wear-compose-m3

Install as an agent plugin

Claude Code:

/plugin install android-skills --marketplace android/skills

Codex:

codex plugin marketplace add android/skills
codex plugin add android-skills@android-skills

Activate skills

Your agent automatically activates skills that are relevant to your task. To use a skill, prompt your agent to complete a task that is related to the skill, for example "Make my app UI edge-to-edge." The agent should automatically find and use the skill if it has been installed.

Disclaimer

AI can make mistakes, so always double-check the results.

Contributing

Submit a GitHub issue to provide feedback, report issues, or make new skill requests and changes.

Public contributions are not accepted at this time.

License

Android Skills is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE.txt file for details.

Review our community guidelines

This project follows Google's Open Source Community Guidelines.