Google says these AI models are best for coding Android apps

AI tools, love them or hate them, have been a big deal in coding and app development, and Google is now actively testing out what the best tools are for Android app development – here’s the full list.

The new “Android Bench” is a leaderboard of the best AI models to use for making Android apps. Google actively checks the top AI LLM models against a benchmark of tests that aim to figure out how these tools can handle building Android apps. Google says that it looks at how the models can work with Jetpack Compose for UI, Coroutines and Flows for asynchronous programming, room for persistence, and hilt for dependency injection. Other points include “navigation migrations, Gradle/build configurations, or the handling of breaking changes across SDK updates,” while Google says that it also measures how these tools work with core and more niche parts of Android such as camera, system UI, media, foldable adaptation, and more.

Google says that its goal is…