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:
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 theandroid-cliskill 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
Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add android/skills
/plugin install android-skills@android-skills
Codex:
codex plugin marketplace add android/skills
codex plugin add android-skills@android-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.
AI can make mistakes, so always double-check the results.
Submit a GitHub issue to provide feedback, report issues, or make new skill requests and changes.
Public contributions are not accepted at this time.
Android Skills is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE.txt file
for
details.
This project follows Google's Open Source Community Guidelines.