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Android Skills: a Claude Code skill by Android

Official

For Android developers who want official step-by-step guidance for Compose layout, upgrades, security and performance work. Skip it if you don't build Android apps.

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Score
71of 100
Rank
#171of 239
Installs
3.8Kon skills.sh
Stars
10.5Kon GitHub
Security
Clear 4 scanners
Updated
2026
Context
~78tokens always

Install

npx skills add https://github.com/android/skills

Run it in your terminal. View the source

Most people install it straight from GitHub, where it has 10.5K stars, so its skills.sh count understates how widely it is used.

Using the Claude app rather than Claude Code? You can add a skill there too. How to add it in the app

What does Android Skills do?

Android Skills is a set of 36 official skills from the Android team that give agents exact steps for Android tasks where models tend to stumble. The edge-to-edge member we read migrates a Jetpack Compose app: it finds every Activity, adds enableEdgeToEdge before setContent, sets adjustResize for screens with a keyboard, and applies insets through Scaffold padding, Material 3 components or safe drawing modifiers so buttons and lists clear the status and navigation bars. It raises the target SDK to 35 if needed. Other members cover AGP 9 upgrades, ANR audits, the profiler, CameraX, intent and permission security, R8 analysis, Wear OS and Android for cars.

It comes as a set of skills that work together:

  • adaptive
  • agp-9-upgrade
  • android-cli
  • android-for-cars-parked-apps
  • android-intent-security
  • android-permissions-security
  • android-profiler
  • anr-audit-and-fix
  • appfunctions
  • camerax
  • display-glasses-with-jetpack-compose-glimmer
  • edge-to-edge

When should you use Android Skills?

Use it when

  • Buttons or lists hide behind the navigation or status bar
  • You are upgrading a project to Android Gradle Plugin 9
  • You need to track down ANRs or tighten intent security

Skip it when

  • You don't work on Android apps
  • Your app still uses XML views and can't move to Compose

What it needs and what it can touch

You need

  • An Android project with the Android SDK (Jetpack Compose for edge-to-edge)
  • The Android CLI, only if you install skills with it

What it can do

  • Reads and edits Kotlin, Gradle and AndroidManifest.xml files

From reading its instructions, not from running it.

Why it scores 71

Strongest on upkeep (100 of 100), weakest on adoption (25).

  • Adoption35 points 25
  • Upkeep20 points 100
  • Trust20 points 100
  • Quality15 points 100
  • Reader answers10 points Not enough answers yet, so this does not count

How the formula works

Is Android Skills safe to install?

Every scanner that checked it passed it. Scanners often miss what other scanners catch, and a skill can change after a scan. Read its source before you install it.

ScannerResultDate
Gen Agent Trust HubPassedSep 14, 2026
SocketPassedSep 14, 2026
SnykLow riskSep 14, 2026
ZeroLeaksPassedApr 16, 2026

Details

Installs
3,756
Repository stars
10,467
Last repository change
Tokens always loaded
about 78
Tokens when used
about 3,470
License
Apache-2.0
Data confidence
High

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