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Android Studio Quail 4 Bundles Gemma 4 Locally With 23 Pre-Loaded Android Skills
Google shipped Android Studio Quail Feature Drop 4 to stable on September 1, 2026 with Gemma 4 natively integrated for on-device inference, requiring 12GB RAM minimum and 32GB+ for reasonable performance, with one-click model selection and automatic downloads. The local model supports offline agentic tool-calling for multi-file refactoring, and the IDE now ships 23 curated Android skills covering workflows like AGP 9 upgrades, Android Profiler and Navigation3. Parallel agents also gained hyperlinked code symbols in responses, background task notifications in Recent Chats, and a consolidated Summary of Changes tab.
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