Press kit

The short version

Pocket Studio is a full Android IDE that runs on the phone itself. Gradle, an OpenJDK runtime, the Android Gradle Plugin, the Kotlin compiler, language servers and a JDWP debugger all run as native processes on the device — with no emulation layer and no cloud build farm — so a developer can open a real Gradle project, edit it with real code intelligence, and produce an installable, signed APK without a computer.

One-liner

An Android IDE that runs on your phone and builds real APKs on-device.

Facts

The angle worth writing about

Not "an IDE on a phone" — that framing undersells it. The interesting story is the constraint:

Real Gradle builds on the phone in your pocket, with no computer and no cloud.

For what it does and what it needs, see the docs.

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Screenshots

Captured from a release build on a physical device — no mockups, no composited UI. Free to use when writing about Pocket Studio, unmodified and with the product named.

Email for full-resolution originals, shots of a specific screen, or a build to try yourself: nativeworksapp@gmail.com.

What not to write

A few corrections that get made often enough to list up front:

• It doesn't build in the cloud. Compilation happens on the device. (Builds do need a network connection, but only to check a build permit.)
• It isn't a Linux container or a terminal emulator running a desktop IDE. The toolchain runs as native Android processes.
• The bundled runtime is OpenJDK, independently built — not Oracle Java SE, and no Java SE compatibility is claimed.
• It is not affiliated with Google, and it is not related to Google's own Android developer tools.
• It doesn't require root.