Google Antigravity for Googlebook: Build Your Own Android Apps With AI Agents

What Antigravity does on a Googlebook

Antigravity is Google’s agent-first platform for building software. Instead of one chatbot answering one question, you hand a task to an agent, and it can split the work between subagents that run at the same time. You watch progress, read its plan and approve changes.

On Googlebook, Google’s help page says Antigravity can create personal apps for your laptop, run system commands, read and write files, search the web, connect to other tools with skills and MCP servers, and create artifacts such as implementation plans.

The Play Store listing sums it up as creating and deploying apps right on your Googlebook. That is the key difference from the desktop versions: the app you build can run on the same machine a minute later, as a normal Android window.

Pick your model

A menu under the prompt box lets you choose the model for each conversation. Google’s Play Store screenshot shows several Gemini Flash and Pro models, plus Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus and GPT-OSS. Antigravity’s plans page says third-party models are a Google AI Ultra perk, so what you see depends on your plan.

Gemini 4 Argon is available in Antigravity for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Our Gemini 4 Argon guide covers what it is good at.

How to set up Antigravity on Googlebook

Antigravity is already installed. The first launch walks you through a short checklist:

Build your first app

Create a project, then type what you want. Google’s own example is a good first test: Create a simple Android calculator app for this device.

Plans and limits

Antigravity measures usage by how much work the agent does, so simple tasks use less quota than big ones. Here is how the plans compare:

Antigravity CLI on Googlebook

Antigravity also has a terminal version called agy. It runs the same agents and uses the same account, but it lives inside the Linux Terminal instead of its own window. It is the lighter option if you already work in a terminal.

To install it, open the Terminal app and paste the official install command:

curl -fsSL https://antigravity.google/cli/install.sh | bash

Then move into a project folder and start it:

mkdir agy-demo && cd agy-demo
agy

On first launch it asks for a color scheme, a display mode and whether you trust the folder. Useful commands: /agents to switch between subagents, /usage to check your quota, Ctrl + R to review plans and changes, and /exit to quit.

Tips for using it safely

Read the plan first: Antigravity shows its plan and changes before it acts. Take a few seconds to check them, especially for commands that delete or move files.

Share only what it needs: the Linux VM only sees folders you allow. Manage them in the Terminal under More, Settings, Shared folders. Google’s Terminal help page has the details.

Reset when things get messy: you can reset the Linux VM from the Terminal’s Recovery settings and keep your files on the Googlebook itself.

Check your chip: apps you build run best when they match your processor. Our Intel vs Snapdragon Googlebook explainer explains why.

Frequently asked questions

Support and resources

• Build and automate with Antigravity on Googlebook, Google’s official setup guide.
• Antigravity documentation, for the app, CLI and plugins.
• Antigravity FAQ, including country availability.
• Googlebook Help Community, to ask other owners.
• r/Googlebook on Reddit, which Google says its team reads.