_Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer_

Today we're releasing Android 17 and making it available on most supported Pixel devices. Look for new devices running Android 17 in the coming months.

Android 17 marks the start of our transition to an intelligence system, putting your apps at the center. It's shifting to an adaptive-first development standard by…

Coding agents are here, and they are not going away. But after months of using them —Antigravity, AmpCode, Opencode, Zed’s built-in agent— I have reached an uncomfortable conclusion: the problem is usually not the agent, it is the project. A poorly prepared repository will defeat any agent, regardless of how advanced its underlying model is.

I wrote about context engineering before, and…