android-dev

A development guide for Android applications, including native Kotlin or Java apps and cross-platform apps made with Flutter, React Native, or Kotlin Multiplatform. It covers work from project setup through release and maintenance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing Android app architecture and screens, improving code quality, debugging crashes, planning tests, configuring builds, releasing the app, or checking performance.
Why use it?
It gives a single reference for choosing a technology stack, structuring the app, testing it, handling errors, and preparing builds and releases.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frogobox/frogo-sdk/android-dev
Any agent
npx skills add frogobox/frogo-sdk --skill android-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frogobox/frogo-sdk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,252 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00031 $0.05252
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02626
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00525

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5d26aea482f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

android-dev scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/android-dev/SKILL.md · 525 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 525 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Android App Development Skill

Overview

This skill guides production-grade Android and cross-platform (non-iOS) app development following practices used at big tech companies. It covers the entire development lifecycle — architecture, UI, code quality, testing, error handling, release, and maintenance.

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when deciding on a tech stack (see §1 Stack Selection)
  • Use when setting up project architecture (see §2 Architecture)
  • Use when designing UI, screens, or a design system (see §3 UI & Design)
  • Use when ensuring code quality, patterns, or APIs (see Best Practices)
  • Use when implementing error handling or debugging crashes (see §5 Error Handling)
  • Use when planning testing strategy (see §6 Testing)
  • Use when configuring build, CI/CD, or release pipelines (see §7 Build & Release)
  • Use when optimizing performance or memory (see §8 Performance)
  • Use when debugging or fixing bugs (see §9 Debugging)
  • Use when following the full development roadmap (see §10 Development Roadmap)
  • Use when needing deep reference for a stack (see references/ directory)

§1 Stack Selection

Choose based on team, requirements, and platform targets. Do not recommend iOS-specific paths.

Native Android — Kotlin + Jetpack Compose

Best for: Android-only apps, hardware-intensive features, best-in-class UX, new projects.

  • Language: Kotlin
  • UI: Jetpack Compose (modern declarative UI)
  • Key libs: Room, Retrofit/Ktor, Hilt, WorkManager, DataStore, Navigation Compose
  • Reference: references/native-android.md

Native Android — Java + XML Views

Best for: Existing Java codebases, teams without Kotlin experience, legacy app maintenance, incremental Kotlin migration.

  • Language: Java (fully supported by Google, not deprecated)
  • UI: XML Layouts (ConstraintLayout, RecyclerView, ViewBinding)
  • Key libs: Room, Retrofit, Hilt, WorkManager, LiveData, ViewModel
  • Java and Kotlin coexist seamlessly in the same project — migrate incrementally
  • Reference: references/java-android.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 525 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 525 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 5d26aea482f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

android-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository frogobox/frogo-sdk (21 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 5,252 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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