Google AI Studio lets you prompt-build Android apps, but quality still lags behind speed
By
Sean Hollister
Sesame, salt, and substance. A flagship bake.
Summary
The article describes the author's experience using Google AI Studio to build Android apps by simply typing prompts. The author created three apps in one afternoon with minimal effort — just 148 words of text and enabling USB debugging. However, the resulting apps (a calorie counter and two games) were of poor quality. The piece explores the promise and current limitations of AI-powered app development, highlighting how easy it is to generate apps but how difficult it is to make them genuinely useful or polished.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI literally typed 148 words into my web browser and walked away. Ten minutes later, I had an entire new app on my actual Android phone.
Google's AI Studio did literally everything else for me.
They were kind of bad.
Just when I started to enjoy iterating on them, trying to make them better, AI Studio informed me
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