28 October 2026
Google opens Android tools to rival AI agents and launches Connected Apps
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- Google's Android Studio now lets developers run more than 40 third-party coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex, inside its development environment.
- Google's new Connected Apps Platform lets businesses link their apps to Gemini and Google Search, with more than 50 partners such as Adobe and Peloton already live in Gemini.
- The Connected Apps Platform is in public beta for US developers who join a waitlist, and Google has not said when it will be broadly available.
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