Five things that changed in Android today.

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   1. Android Studio Rabbit 2 is stable with your own coding agent built in

   You can now use the coding agent your team prefers inside the stable Android Studio, with the IDE's project context.

   Google released Android Studio Rabbit 2 in the stable channel, ready for production use. The release brings the coding agents developers already use into the IDE, and Google lists Bring Your Own agent support among its key features. It was announced alongside Android Dev Summit, where Google described tools for working with agents.

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   2. Glance gets adaptive widgets that target several surfaces

   Widget developers may soon describe one Glance widget that adapts to the home screen and other surfaces such as the watch.

   The details

   Jetpack Glance is Android's toolkit for building widgets with Compose-style code. Two merged AndroidX changes add an adaptive widget manager and new types for surfaces, widget instances and adaptive templates. A Dev Summit session also covers moving Wear Tiles to Wear Widgets with Glance. Nothing is released yet, so this is a direction, not an API to use today.

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   3. CameraX is building a low-light boost effect

   Camera apps may soon get brighter results in the dark by adding one CameraX effect instead of writing their own image processing.

   The details

   CameraX is the Jetpack library most apps use for the camera. Five merged AndroidX changes add a low-light boost effect, with a session manager, a frame router and an OpenGL rendering pipeline on the graphics chip. That suggests a software boost that brightens dark preview and video, which could work on phones without a hardware low-light mode. It is not released yet.

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   4. LiteRT in Play services gets faster GPU inference

   Apps with on-device AI features can get faster inference and a smaller download by switching to the Play services runtime.

   The details

   LiteRT is Google's runtime for running machine learning models on the device, the successor to TensorFlow Lite. When delivered through Google Play services, it now offers GPU inference powered by ML Drift, which Google says is about 1.4 times faster, plus a new CompiledModel API. Using the Play services version also keeps the runtime out of your app, so apps get smaller.

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   5. Navigation 3 adds type-safe deep links

   If your app is modular and uses deep links, Navigation 3 can catch broken routes before users hit them.

   The details

   Navigation 3 is the newest Jetpack library for moving between screens in Compose apps. A new Android Developers video explains its type-safe deep links, which check link routes at compile time. In apps split into many modules, deep links often break quietly when a screen moves. Type-safe routes turn those into build errors instead of runtime surprises.

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