In an effort to unify all artificial intelligence (AI) products under a unified framework, Google on Monday renamed its experimental artificial intelligence tool Studio Bot to Gemini in Android Studio. The AI ​​chatbot debuted last year as a tool for Android app developers to help code and answer queries related to Android libraries and features. Additionally, the tech giant has also upgraded its AI chatbot, adding support for Gemini 1.0 Pro.

Android Studio product manager Sandhya Mohan announced the news in a statement postal on the Android Developers Blog. Mohan explained that the AI-powered coding assistant, which can be accessed directly within the integrated development environment (IDE), “helps you generate code for your application and provides complex code completion, thereby improving your ability to develop high-quality Android faster. app capabilities, answer your questions, find related resources, add code comments, and more—all without leaving Android Studio. “

Gemini in Android Studio is a specific AI tool designed to help developers solve specific queries in natural language, such as “What is the best way to get location on Android” and “How to add camera support to my application using CameraX in the application”. But it can do much more. Chatbots can also write code, complete multiple lines of code, provide suggestions, and more.

With the addition of Gemini 1.0 Pro, chatbots can remember the context of conversations, allowing developers to ask follow-up questions without repeating the original keywords. Additionally, Google said it developed the tool with a primary focus on privacy. While the tool is only active when the user is logged in and enabled, and most features do not require any code context to be sent, users also have the option to control what the chatbot reads when they share context code.

These options are given in the settings and allow developers to have fine control over the tool. Additionally, using an .aiexclude file will allow users to customize files and folders that Gemini cannot access. Gemini in Android Studio is currently in preview, but is accessible in more than 180 countries, and users can try it out in Android Studio Jellyfish.

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