Google ranks the best AI for building Android apps, and the winner isn’t Gemini

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Google expanded Android Bench to include open-weight models plus latency, token, and cost metrics.
The latest leaderboard ranks GPT 5.5 above Gemini 3.1 Pro for Android app development tasks.
The benchmark gives Android developers a public way to compare AI coding tools.
It also pressures model makers to improve Android-specific code generation and efficiency.
