AWS Launches Kiro Android App for Mobile Cloud Coding Sessions and Integrates Grok 4.7
AWS released 'Kiro for Android', allowing paid users to start, monitor, and instruct cloud-based AI coding tasks from smartphones, while adding SpaceX's Grok 4.7 model to its IDE.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched 'Kiro for Android' on November 13, 2026, an application for its AI development environment Kiro. The app enables paid users to start, check, and continue instructions for AI coding tasks running in the cloud via smartphone. This update addresses the limitation of managing long-running AI agent tasks when away from a desktop.
The core mechanism is the 'Cloud Session'. All coding work executes in a cloud sandbox, with conversation history and state synchronized in real-time across Kiro CLI, Web interface, IDE, and the Android app. Background tasks do not stop even if the phone screen is off. On Android, users can view lists of running, completed, or pending-response sessions. New tasks can be started by connecting a repository and entering instructions, with support for attaching screenshots. When Kiro requires a decision (such as branch selection), users can reply directly on their phone. Change diffs are displayed in mobile-optimized cards, and upon confirmation, Kiro automatically creates a Pull Request.
For enterprise customers using IAM Identity Center, administrators must manually enable cloud sessions. Currently, the service is only available in the US East (N. Virginia) region, with an iOS version in preview.
Additionally, AWS announced the integration of SpaceX's 'Grok 4.7' model into Kiro's IDE, CLI, Crew, and Web interfaces. According to SpaceX-published data, compared to the previous Grok 4.6, Grok 4.7 improved success rates on Terminal-Bench 4.0 from 20.3% to 37.6%, and on DeepSWE v1.1 from 65.2% to 71.0%. The model is designed for tasks taking hours that require step-by-step verification, compatible with Kiro's 'spec-driven development' mode. Pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with a 500,000-token context window. In Kiro Pro and higher plans, Grok 4.7 is offered as an experimental feature consuming 2.7x credits.