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🔥 Firebender - The best AI assistant for Android Studio

Meet Firebender, Android Studio's missing AI assistant.

Aman Gottumukkala
Firebender
 
https://firebender.com
#enterprise#ai_assistant#developer_tools#artificial_intelligence

Hey everyone! We’re Aman and Kevin from Firebender, building the best AI tools for Android developers.

TLDR: Firebender is a free and privacy-first Android Studio AI assistant.

🎥 Firebender in Action

https://youtu.be/It-TD_95yNk

🛠️ Problem

  • Inefficient Workflows: Constantly switching between Android Studio and ChatGPT is annoying, disrupts your development flow, and reduces productivity.

  • AI Assistants are shit: General-purpose AI coding tools don't integrate relevant Android-specific contexts like Logcat and the emulator. Some flat-out don’t work in Android Studio at all.

    “Gemini and Copilot are comically bad. I never use them” - Android Tech Lead at GoodRx

  • Outdated Android Training Data: Leading AI models have a knowledge cutoff that lags behind Android's fast-paced, often backward-incompatible changes. This gap leads to incorrect AI code suggestions for updated SDKs, libraries, architecture patterns, and UI frameworks like Jetpack Compose.

    “GPT4 and Claude were clueless about the Android UI framework we use. We had to build an in-house context retrieval system to make AI coding useful.” - Senior Staff Android Eng at Airbnb

🔥 Our Solution - Firebender

  • Android Studio Plugin: One click install from IntelliJ marketplace.

  • Talk to your codebase: AI chat window for comprehensive assistance with your codebase, logs, profiler, and emulator.

  • Fast Edit: Enables quick, context-aware code modifications directly in your current file.

  • Up-to-date Android Knowledge: Firebender scrapes real-time knowledge from the latest SDKs, libraries, repos, and docs into context.

  • Free & Privacy First: We do not log, store, or persist your code.

An iOS developer with 10 years of experience built his first Android app in just 3 weeks using Firebender—a task that had taken him 3 months for iOS.

"There was no way I could've built it as fast as I did without Firebender" - iOS Eng at Sinai Health

🤷 Why we built Firebender

A few months ago, we were developing Firebender OS - an AI-powered fork of Android. We rooted Pixel 8s and created an AI assistant that activates by holding the power button. It automated tasks like drafting calendar invites from messages and opening relevant apps based on your location and schedule. Despite using it every day, we realized the added value wasn't sufficient. We didn’t love the product.

Throughout this process, we constantly struggled without a good AI coding assistant for Android development. Existing tools have shockingly poor Android support, focusing instead on other IntelliJ IDEs and languages. This gap revealed a clear opportunity so we pivoted immediately to building Firebender, the best AI coding assistant for Android developers.

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