Android Studio adds ‘agentic AI’ with Journeys feature, Agent Mode

Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. In addition to the rollout of the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro model, Android Studio is gaining a new “agentic AI” capability called Journeys and will soon introduce an “Agent Mode” for more complex development tasks. Using Gemini, journeys will allow developers to test their app by describing the actions and assertions in natural language for the user journeys across the app. Gemini will then perform the tests for you. Image Credits:Google The feature, explains Google, will let developers test their apps more easily, without having to write extensive code to do so. The company cautioned that this is still experimental, but ultimately, the goal is to increase the speed of shipping high-quality code while reducing the time it takes to test, validate, or reproduce issues. The tests can run on physical o ... Read full article.