Agents on real phones: Simona Milanovic shows Android CLI's new skills

Three videos went up on October 2, all about teaching AI coding agents to check Play policy, chase memory leaks and build for Wear OS.

Channel: Android DevelopersStory of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Android CLI and skills to improve your development

Twelve hours after it went up, Simona Milanovic's walkthrough of Android CLI and its new skills had close to 5,000 views, and it is the one carrying the channel right now. The idea is simple to state: give a developer's AI agent a set of official, ready-made abilities, such as auditing an app for Play policy compliance before submission or running the Android profiler to hunt down memory leaks. The description promises the whole catalog arrives with a single command.

Two shorter companions went up the same day. Garan Jenkin takes the Wear Compose Material 3 skill to the wrist, steering agents through watch components like TransformingLazyColumn, SwipeToReveal and EdgeButton. The third video stays in the terminal and puts the agent on real phones through Android Device Streaming, deploying builds and grabbing logs and screenshots from hardware as if it were plugged in by USB.

The comments are a very developer mix. One viewer worries that a single question about devices eats a whole free tier, another wonders whether builds could speed up on an old i5 laptop with 8 GB of RAM, and someone simply asks if this really is Google's official channel. It is.

The channel is running a little above its usual daily pace, while its subscriber count held still. Among similar tech channels it ranks second by subscribers but sits near the bottom for views gained this week; its sibling channel Android is having an enormous few days, and Low Level and Nate Herk's AI automation channel are busy too. For a channel built on tutorials, an agent-and-terminal week is a fitting place to be.

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The videos drawing views on Android Developers right now

Build better Wear OS apps with the Wear Compose Material 3 Android sk…1,196 views · 2026-10-02 Test on real hardware through Android CLI778 views · 2026-10-02

The numbers

Here is how the Android Developers channel's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

Android

4,754,419

Low Level

2,157,933

Nate Herk | AI Automation

1,950,489

Tina Huang

1,052,553

Dave's Garage

547,261

Teacher's Tech

346,466

Windows

227,317

Android Developers

76,232

AWS Developers

53,479

subscribers

1,430,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,915,443,651

views per day

16,337

typical day: 11,989

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

AWS Developers

1,720,000

Android Developers

1,430,000

Tina Huang

1,330,000

Android

1,280,000

Teacher's Tech

1,190,000

Windows

1,180,000

Low Level

1,170,000

Dave's Garage

1,150,000

Nate Herk | AI Automation

1,050,000

As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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