Firebender – A Dead Simple Coding Assistant in Android Studio
I spent a couple months working on a fork of AOSP (Android operating system), creating OS baked apps, and I realized how bad the coding assistants were for Android Studio (ie. Gemini). So, I built a coding assistant plugin designed for Android Development. It's simple to use: hit `CMD+L`, and a chat window opens in a side panel on the right with context over any highlighted code or opened file. There’s options to pick the best LLMs for android development like o1, gpt-4o, and claude-3.5-sonnet. This is in its early stage, so feedback from other android developers would be super helpful - If…
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I spent a couple months working on a fork of AOSP (Android operating system), creating OS baked apps, and I realized how bad the coding assistants were for Android Studio (ie. Gemini). So, I built a coding assistant plugin designed for Android Development. It's simple to use: hit `CMD+L`, and a chat window opens in a side panel on the right with context over any highlighted code or opened file. There’s options to pick the best LLMs for android development like o1, gpt-4o, and claude-3.5-sonnet. This is in its early stage, so feedback from other android developers would be super helpful - If you’re in the bay area and want free lunch/coffee, pick a time that works for you https://cal.com/team/firebender/coffee-with-firebender
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