Do Android developers still need Android Studio, or just any IDE? With AI agents writing and navigating more of our code, the IDE’s role is changing. However some tools such as debuggers & profilers are hard to replace.
In this Fresh from the Oven episode, Nicola, Marco, and Paolo talk through that shift. Marco shares a preview of his upcoming droidcon London talk, “Do we still need Android Studio?”, and the three compare how they use IDEs, terminals, desktop agent apps, and command-line tools in their day-to-day work.
We dig into the features that still bring developers back to Android Studio, whether those tools should be available on their own, and how Android CLI is making more of the development workflow accessible to agents.
Enjoy the show 👨🍳
Show Notes
- 00.00 Intro
- 00.52 Episode Start
- 01.35 Do we still need Android Studio?
- 05.00 How AI is changing the role of IDEs
- 12.31 Where to run coding agents: terminal or desktop?
- 21.26 The Android Studio tools worth keeping
- 29.55 Should developer tools run outside the IDE?
- 32.18 Android CLI: built for agent workflows
- 38.41 Recipe of the week
- 45.30 Droidcon London and closing
Resources
- Marco Gomiero’s droidcon London speaker page - his talk, “Do we still need Android Studio?”
- droidcon London 2026 - December 10–11 in London
- Android CLI
- iTerm2 Session Status and Toolbelt - see which terminal sessions are working, waiting, or idle
- Herdr - a terminal workspace for running coding agents
- Moshi - a mobile terminal for coding agents and remote development
- Clean Code Revisited in the Age of AI — Danny Preussler - droidcon USA 2026 talk
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