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Firebender - Android Studio's most powerful AI assistant

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Firebender is the most powerful AI assistant for Android Studio. Their plugin offers AI chat over codebases, logs & emulators, quick file edits, and models with up-to-date Android knowledge.

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Aman Gottumukkala
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TLDR: Firebender is the most powerful AI assistant for Android Studio. We are privacy first - we don't log, store, or persist your code. Try it out at https://firebender.com/! Hey Product Hunt! Aman here, co-founder of Firebender (YC W24) with Kevin. We're extremely excited to launch Firebender, but our journey here took an unexpected turn. A few months ago, we were developing Firebender OS, an AI-powered fork of Android. Inspired by the failed launches of Humane Pin and Rabbit R1, we aimed to build better functionality by focusing on AI software and leveraging existing superior hardware. We rooted Pixel 8s and created an AI assistant activated by holding the power button. It automated tasks like drafting calendar invites and messages, opening relevant transportation apps based on location and schedule, and overriding the Google Gemini assistant with the best AI models. Despite using it every day, we didn't LOVE the product, which led us to consider a new direction. Throughout this process, we constantly struggled without a good AI coding assistant for Android development. We discovered that Android developers are often overlooked regarding AI-powered development tools. This became clear as we heard from frustrated devs about existing tools: "GPT4 and Claude were clueless about the Android UI framework we use." - Senior Staff Android Eng at Airbnb "Gemini and Copilot are comically bad. I never use them" - Android Tech Lead at GoodRx This revealed a clear opportunity, so we pivoted to Firebender, the most powerful AI coding assistant for Android developers. Firebender offers: šŸš€ Lightning-fast assistance right in Android Studio šŸ’” Up-to-date Android knowledge šŸ—Øļø Contextual understanding of your codebase, logs, and emulator āœļø Intelligent code suggestions and modifications And the best part? It's free and privacy-first - we don't log, store, or persist your code. šŸ™ Our Asks Try Firebender for Android Studio at https://firebender.com/ Chat with us in whatever way works best for you - We'll buy coffee or lunch for any Android developer in the Bay Area, text or call us at 469-347-0830 - Schedule a call here: https://calendly.com/d/cp47-gp4-... - Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/WB4VnjR4RA - Email: founders@firebender.com Thanks!!
Tae Kim
cracked team, let's goo Firebender šŸ”„
Aman Gottumukkala
Maker
@taehnkim Thanks <3
Kevin Tang
Maker
@taehnkim love you tae
Chris Siegler
So you use your own API keys?
Aman Gottumukkala
Maker
@chris_siegler We currently use our own API keys but also provide the ability to bring your own API key and set a custom endpoint. We don't store, log, or persist any sensitive information and API calls get sent straight to the LLM providers. Just waiting on intellij plugin verification to ship.
Nikola Djordjevic
Congrats on the launch, @amangotchu ! It's exciting to see a solution focused on Android developers, especially one that prioritizes privacy.
Aman Gottumukkala
Maker
@djordjevic_nikola A majority of Android users work at companies that are privacy-sensitive so this was a no brainer for us!
dhaouadi kassem
@amangotchu Do you think about any platform risks? What if Google implements this as a feature in Android Studio? I know that big corporations are slow to implement features.
Aman Gottumukkala
Maker
@dhaouadi_kassem While the risk is real that's the game we're willing to play. Google has failed to push a usable version Gemini assistant in Android Studio for almost 2 years and we were able to build a better experience in only a few weeks. We have ideas around building a new AI mobile development IDE forked from Android Studio to remove some of this platform risk as well.
Kevin Tang
Maker
@dhaouadi_kassem @amangotchu basically what amans saying is gemini is shit, and they have bigger problems to worry about (e.g. openai chatgpt beating search)
Sarthak Srinivas
Just picked up Android after 5+ years, and Firebender is the only reason I was able to deploy a basic crud app in 2 hours :) well done @kevo1ution @amangotchu looking forward to see what's next
Kevin Tang
Maker
@amangotchu @sarthak_srinivas Thats awesome! really happy the tool was useful for you
Ezana Habtegiorgiss
Android dev is so painful to me, this is SUPER SUPER HELPFUL. CONGRATS šŸ„³šŸ„³šŸ„³
Kevin Tang
Maker
@ezoulemma yep now you can use AI and 10x with one click. thanks for the support Ezana!!!
Alessandro Puppo
Hey guys, love the product - congrats!!
Aman Gottumukkala
Maker
@alessandro_puppo1 Thanks Alessandro!
Charlie Greene
This launch sounds like an exciting leap forward for Android developers. Congratulations!
Kevin Tang
Maker
@charlie_greene3 yessir! we hope to make every android developer proud
Sandeep Kumar
I encountered a small issue with the website when trying to sign up it might need a little tweaking for smoother access!
Kevin Tang
Maker
@sandeep__kum__ar there's no sign up flow in our product! if you can send a screenshot of what you're seeing to kevin@firebender.com I'll take a look asap
Jackieline Cosares
I love the focus on contextual understanding of code, logs, and even the emulator, so practical! How does Firebender handle more complex debugging tasks?
Aman Gottumukkala
Maker
@jackielinecosares Debugging is an important, open research problem in the AI coding assistant space! We currently are limited by how well the base model can fix a problem with a human in the loop, but we're working on improvements!
Dmytro Sokolov
Firebender seems like a major time-saver for Android developers! Awesome! I love the idea of AI-powered code insights and automated debugging directly within Android Studio. How well does the log analyzer work with large projects, and can it handle complex errors efficiently?
illiana reed
This is so helpful for app development. I wish this existed for XCode :')
Kevin Tang
Maker
@illiana_reed time to learn how to build android apps and jetpack compose multiplatform ;) but yeah building for android developers is way more fun for us. wouldn't be surprised to see something like this coming out for XCode in the future
Jordan Dearsley
Hell yes! Awesome team- necessary product.
Kevin Tang
Maker
@jordan_dearsley Learned from the best enterprise salesman east of the pacific ocean
Sasha Orloff
Hell yes! Finally itā€™s live!
Kevin Tang
Maker
@sasha_orloff HAHA thanks so much Sasha!
Samantha Den
It could actually make my code work without throwing a tantrum.
Tiss Tim
congratulations on your new journey.love the focus on contextual understanding of code, logs, and even the emulator, so practical.
Jahanzaib Ara
It's nice to see a tool that cares about user security while providing powerful features.
Chandan Jadhav
Launching soon!
good one! and good luck ahead.
Kevin Tang
Maker
@chandan_jadhav thx so much!
Srijan
Great product! Congrats on the launch Aman and team :)šŸš€