Gemini puts Android App development on turbo-charge

Gemini is integrated with Android Studio (the latest version) as a plugin. There are very many plugins. Scroll down to see Gemini.

How does Gemini help Android Studio?:

In its present embodiment, it can do the following with some exceptions:

Code Generation: Analyze your code and suggest code completion like most other programming software IDEs. Code refactoring suggestions. It can suggest alternative approaches to achieve end result.

Error Analysis: Spotting errors related to code both in scripts and UI. UI integration being very important, this may be an extremely useful help.

Search and Navigation: They are strong points of Gemini and it will wade through the code and take you t specific part of your code. You should find it useful troubleshooting code not of your own but you got ownership. UI/Code interaction will get a great benefit from this feature. 

As can be seen, Gemini can greatly assist in App development. Some of these are also parts of what Android Studio do. We will come to the overlap later.

Do you have to do anything to get the Gemini to work with your code.?

This is a great question. You do not have to do anything special. Gemini works in the background and unless you look for it carefully you may not even notice it. Looking at suggestions you may infer it is coming form Gemini.

Take your suggestions from Gemini:

The previous paragraphs emphasizes the fact that Gemini can only suggest and it is up to the developer to implement or take action. This is very important presently because Gemini is still in the 'Learning' mode and it could make mistakes. However, as its suggestions are based on studied analysis, it can add to the repertoire of the developer. As Gemini goes through analysis, it can point to deficiencies in the project that can greatly improve the quality.

Gemini is your friend working in the background and no need to import anything extra. It only offers contextual help based on what you are doing.

There is an overlap between what Gemini brings to the project and what Android Studio already has but Code analysis for code improvement and refactoring are in the realm of Gemini.

I am indebted to Gemini for some of the above.