android

Learn how to install and migrate to Jetpack Navigation 3, and how to implement features and patterns such as deep links, multiple backstacks, scenes (dialogs, bottom sheets, list-detail, two-pane, supporting pane), conditional navigation (such as logged-in navigation versus anonymous), returning results from flows, integration with Hilt, ViewModel, Kotlin, and view interoperability.

Use this skill to migrate your Jetpack Compose app to add adaptive edge-to-edge support and troubleshoot common issues. Use this skill to fix UI components (like buttons or lists) that are obscured by or overlapping with the navigation bar or status bar, fix IME insets, and fix system bar legibility.

Analyzes Android build files and R8 keep rules to identify redundancies, broad package-wide rules, and rules that subsume library consumer keep rules. Use this skill when developers want to optimize their Android app's size, remove redundant or overly broad keep rules, or troubleshoot ProGuard configurations. Don't use for general Gradle build errors, Compose UI performance, or runtime CPU profiling.

Provides instructions for installing and using the android CLI. The android command-line tool is a critical tool for Android development and helps you create new Android projects, install APKs onto devices and emulators and launch and run apps on them, manage and interact with Android virtual devices (including screenshots and UI inspection), manage Android SDK components, look up official Android documentation, and discover and install official Android skills.

Analyze and create a testing strategy for Android apps - install testing libraries, set up test infrastructure, create harnesses for unit tests, UI tests, screenshot tests, and end-to-end tests.

Instructions to make or update an app's UI so that it adapts to different Android devices including phones, tablets, foldables, laptops, desktop, TV, Auto, and XR. It includes how to handle different window sizes, pointing devices (such as mouse) and text entry devices (such as keyboard) using the Compose MediaQuery API, and how to preserve UI, navigation, scroll, and media playback state across configuration changes (such as folding/unfolding a foldable, rotating a device, or resizing a window). It also covers multi-pane layouts using Navigation3 Scenes, adaptive UI components (such as buttons) with varying target sizes, and adaptive layouts (including navigation areas - nav rails and nav bars) using the Compose Grid and FlexBox APIs. It also covers desktop experiences with keyboard shortcuts, tooltips and custom cursors.

Provides a structured workflow for migrating an Android XML View to Jetpack Compose. This skill details the step-by-step process, from planning and dependency setup, to theming and layout migration, validation and XML cleanup. Use this skill when you need to migrate an XML View to Jetpack Compose in an Android project. It solves the problem of converting the UI of a legacy XML View into modern, declarative Compose components while maintaining interoperability.

Use this skill to integrate the Jetpack Compose Styles API into an Android project. This skill guides you through upgrading dependencies, setting up component themes, making custom components styleable, and migrating existing layout properties to use unified styles. Migrate custom design system components, replace hard coded parameters with Style attributes, and use Modifier.styleable for interaction states.

Use this skill when upgrading or migrating an Android project from any legacy Google Play Billing Library (PBL) version to the latest stable version of PBL.

Best practices for Android Intent security. Use this skill when auditing component configurations in AndroidManifest.xml activities, services, receivers) or source code handling incoming Intents (getIntent, getParcelableExtra) to prevent Intent Redirection and unauthorized access.

Analyzes Android apps to identify key user workflows for AppFunctions such as creating a note, playing media, or sending an automated or AI agent triggered message, voice commands, or system shortcuts, without needing to open the app UI. Generates Kotlin code to expose these workflows to the Android system, allowing agents to discover and execute them on-device. Also refines KDoc documentation to ensure AI agents correctly understand and use the provided functionality.

Provides guidelines for developing projected Android XR apps for display glasses using the Jetpack Compose Glimmer UI toolkit. Covers Glimmer design principles, workflows, and interaction models for the glasses form factor. Use this skill to build an Android XR Augmented Experience app with Jetpack Compose Glimmer. Don't use for audio-only AI glasses without a display, non-glasses Android XR headsets (spatial panels or 3D volumes with Jetpack Compose for XR), or phone and tablet Material 3 UIs.

Helps developers integrate, debug, and resolve Play Engage SDK implementation issues. Use when adding Engage SDK support, generating publishing code, mapping data classes to entities, or fixing SDK-related errors.

Provides a complete workflow for implementing verified email retrieval on Android Credential Manager API. Use this skill to integrate a secure, OTP-less email verification flow into an Android app. This skill solves the problem of high-friction sign-up processes by leveraging cryptographically verified credentials from trusted providers like Google.

Automated auditor designed to verify Android applications against Google Play Policy domains. It cross-references static code analysis with Play Store declarations to generate deterministic compliance reports, identifying undeclared data collection, architectural risks, and missing disclosures across Permissions and APIs Hygiene, User Account and Identity, and Data Safety and Privacy domains.

Upgrades, or migrates, an Android project to use Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) version 9. Do not use this skill for migrating Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) projects.

Provide technical guidance for Android camera development with CameraX. Use when implementing camera features, handling asynchronous recording lifecycles, wiring low-level hardware interop using CameraX, or integrating ML Kit or Media3 effects.

Guidance for Wear OS Compose Material3 (Wear Compose Material 3 / Wear Compose Material3) watch and wearable apps. Covers creating, updating, and migrating projects (Material 2.5 and Horologist migration) using androidx.wear.compose.material3, androidx.wear.compose.foundation, and androidx.wear.compose.navigation3, including AppScaffold, ScreenScaffold, TransformingLazyColumn, ambient mode, and previews.

Records and analyzes Android performance data and diagnoses performance bottlenecks across user apps, system apps, and system services, even if the user does not explicitly mention profiling or traces. Use when: recording system traces, CPU call stacks, Vulkan GPU/DRM memory, or Java/native heap profiles; analyzing Perfetto traces for UI jank, frame drops, ANRs, or app startup latency issues; investigating CPU bottlenecks, IPC/Binder storms, or thread scheduling stalls; diagnosing battery drain, modem power rails, and kernel wake locks; debugging memory pressure, Low Memory Kills (LMK), OOMs, leaks, and allocation churn; performing A/B baseline trace comparisons to find regressions; executing ad hoc PerfettoSQL queries on Android traces.

Analyzes Perfetto traces to find the root cause of latency, memory, or jank issues in Android apps. Use when the user provides a Perfetto trace file and asks any question, ongoing investigation, or open-ended request to analyze its contents.

Translates natural language data intents into syntactically valid Perfetto SQL queries and executes them against a local trace file. Use this skill to extract slice, thread, or memory data from Android Perfetto traces using traceprocessor.

Provides instructions and architectural patterns for migrating Android TV applications from legacy Leanback UI Toolkit, Android Views, or Support Fragments to Jetpack Compose for TV (androidx.tv). Use this skill for Leanback to Compose migrations, including browse screen, settings screen, authentication screen, login screen, or video playback screen migrations, or when replacing BrowseSupportFragment, LeanbackSettingsFragment, PreferenceFragment, BaseLeanbackPreferenceFragmentCompat, VideoSupportFragment, GuidedStepSupportFragment, SearchSupportFragment, VerticalGridSupportFragment, Presenter, ArrayObjectAdapter, or CursorMapper with modern Compose equivalents, implementing immersive carousels with focus memory, Media3 video playback with PlayerSurface, or custom 10-foot hero layouts.

Implements Google Cast support in Android apps using Jetpack Media3. Handles adding build dependencies, updating manifest, configuring OptionsProvider, and managing CastPlayer or RemoteCastPlayer for playback in both Compose and View-based UIs. Use when adding Cast functionality or migrating from legacy Cast SDK to Media3 Cast.

Provides knowledge and workflows to implement Android's Restore Credentials feature using the androidx.credentials library. Use this skill to create, sign in with, and delete restore keys, enabling silent user sign-in on new devices after a restore. It covers version compatibility, dependencies, server-side prerequisites, and the complete client-side implementation for creating, retrieving, and clearing restore keys.

Intercept back gestures and run Predictive Back animations using the NavigationEvent (androidx.navigationevent) library in Compose Android. Handles Activity setup, parent-child dispatcher scoping in ViewPagers or tabs, Compose NavigationBackHandler, and migration from legacy BackHandler on SDK 36+.

Audits, detects gaps, and remediates Android permissions and IPC component security vulnerabilities. Use when reviewing AndroidManifest.xml, defining custom permissions, securing Services, Receivers, and Providers, verifying caller signatures and UID using Binder, or implementing runtime permission flows.