Posted by Matthew McCullough – VP of Product Administration, Android Developer
At present at Google I/O, we introduced the various methods we’re serving to you construct glorious, adaptive experiences, and serving to you keep extra productive by updates to our tooling that put AI at your fingertips and all through your growth lifecycle. Right here’s a recap of 16 of our favourite bulletins for Android builders; you can too see what was introduced final week in The Android Present: I/O Version. And keep tuned over the following two days as we dive into the entire matters in additional element!
Constructing AI into your Apps
1: Constructing clever apps with Generative AI
Generative AI enhances apps’ expertise by making them clever, personalised and agentic. This 12 months, we introduced new ML Equipment GenAI APIs utilizing Gemini Nano for frequent on-device duties like summarization, proofreading, rewrite, and picture description. We additionally offered capabilities for builders to harness extra highly effective fashions corresponding to Gemini Professional, Gemini Flash, and Imagen by way of Firebase AI Logic for extra complicated use instances like picture era and processing in depth information throughout modalities, together with bringing AI to life in Android XR, and a brand new AI pattern app, Androidify, that showcases how these APIs can remodel your selfies into distinctive Android robots! To start out constructing clever experiences by leveraging these new capabilities, discover the developer documentation, pattern apps, and watch the overview session to decide on the proper answer in your app.
New experiences throughout units
2: One app, each display: assume adaptive and unlock 500 million screens
Cellular Android apps kind the muse throughout telephones, foldables, tablets and ChromeOS, and this 12 months we’re serving to you deliver them to vehicles and XR and increasing usages with desktop windowing and related shows. This growth means tapping into an ecosystem of 500 million units – a major alternative to interact extra customers while you assume adaptive, constructing a single cellular app that works throughout kind elements. Assets, together with Compose Layouts library and Jetpack Navigation updates, assist make constructing these dynamic experiences simpler than earlier than. You possibly can see how Peacock, NBCUniveral’s streaming service (out there within the US) is constructing adaptively to fulfill customers the place they’re.
3: Materials 3 Expressive: design for instinct and emotion
The brand new Materials 3 Expressive replace supplies instruments to reinforce your product’s enchantment by harnessing emotional UX, making it extra partaking, intuitive, and fascinating for customers. Take a look at the I/O speak to be taught extra about expressive design and the way it conjures up emotion, clearly guides customers towards their targets, and affords a versatile and personalised expertise.
4: Smarter widgets, partaking reside updates
Measure the return on funding of your widgets (out there quickly) and simply create personalised widget previews with Look 1.2. Promoted Stay Updates notify customers of essential ongoing notifications and include a brand new Progress Model standardized template.
5: Enhanced Digital camera & Media: low gentle enhance and battery financial savings
This 12 months’s I/O introduces a number of digital camera and media enhancements. These embrace a software program low gentle enhance for improved images in dim lighting and native PCM offload, permitting the DSP to deal with extra audio playback processing, thus conserving person battery. Discover our detailed periods on built-in results inside CameraX and Media3 for additional info.
6: Construct next-gen app experiences for Vehicles
We’re launching expanded alternatives for builders to construct in-car experiences, together with new Gemini integrations, help for extra app classes like Video games and Video, and enhanced capabilities for media and communication apps by way of the Automobile App Library and new APIs. Alongside up to date automobile app high quality tiers and simplified distribution, we’ll quickly be offering improved testing instruments like Android Automotive OS on Pixel Pill and Firebase Check Lab entry that can assist you deliver your revolutionary apps to vehicles. Be taught extra from our technical session and weblog put up on new in-car app experiences.
7: Construct for Android XR’s increasing ecosystem with Developer Preview 2 of the SDK
We introduced Android XR in December, and right this moment at Google I/O we shared a bunch of updates coming to the platform together with Developer Preview 2 of the Android XR SDK plus an increasing ecosystem of units: along with the primary Android XR headset, Samsung’s Mission Moohan, you’ll additionally see extra units together with a brand new transportable Android XR machine from our companions at XREAL. There’s heaps extra to cowl for Android XR: Watch the Compose and AI on Android XR session, and the Constructing differentiated apps for Android XR with 3D content material session, and be taught extra about constructing for Android XR.
8: Categorical your self on Put on OS: meet Materials Expressive on Put on OS 6
This 12 months we’re launching Put on OS 6: probably the most highly effective and expressive model of Put on OS. Put on OS 6 options Materials 3 Expressive, a brand new UI design with personalised visuals and movement for person creativity, coming to Put on, Android, and Google apps later this 12 months. Builders achieve entry to Materials 3 Expressive on Put on OS by using new Jetpack libraries: Put on Compose Materials 3, which supplies parts for apps and Put on ProtoLayout Materials 3 which supplies parts and layouts for tiles. Get began with Materials 3 libraries and different updates on Put on.
9: Interact customers on Google TV with glorious TV apps
You possibly can leverage extra assets inside Compose’s core and Materials libraries with the steady launch of Compose for TV, empowering you to construct glorious adaptive UIs throughout your apps. We’re additionally thrilled to share thrilling platform updates and developer instruments designed to spice up app engagement, together with bringing Gemini capabilities to TV within the fall, opening enrollment for our Video Discovery API, and extra.
Developer productiveness
10: Construct stunning apps sooner with Jetpack Compose
Compose is our large wager for UI growth. The newest steady BOM launch supplies the options, efficiency, stability, and libraries that you have to construct stunning adaptive apps sooner, so you may concentrate on what makes your app useful to customers.
11: Kotlin Multiplatform: new Shared Template helps you to construct throughout platforms, simply
Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) allows groups to succeed in new audiences throughout Android and iOS with much less growth time. We’ve launched a brand new Android Studio KMP shared module template, up to date Jetpack libraries and new codelabs (Getting began with Kotlin Multiplatform and Migrating your Room database to KMP) to assist builders who wish to get began with KMP. Shared module templates make it simpler for builders to craft, keep, and personal the enterprise logic. Learn extra on what’s new in Android’s Kotlin Multiplatform.
12: Gemini in Android Studio: AI Brokers that can assist you work
Gemini in Android Studio is the AI-powered coding companion that makes Android builders extra productive at each stage of the dev lifecycle. In March, we launched Picture to Code to bridge the hole between UX groups and software program engineers by intelligently changing design mockups into working Compose UI code. And right this moment, we previewed new agentic AI experiences, Journeys for Android Studio and Model Improve Agent. These improvements make it simpler to construct and take a look at code. You possibly can learn extra about these updates in What’s new in Android growth instruments.
13: Android Studio: smarter with Gemini
On this newest launch, we’re empowering devs with AI-driven instruments like Gemini in Android Studio, streamlining UI creation, making testing simpler, and guaranteeing apps are future-proofed in our ever-evolving Android ecosystem. These improvements speed up growth cycles, enhance app high quality, and allow you to keep forward in a dynamic cellular panorama. To take benefit, improve to the most recent Studio launch. You possibly can learn extra about these improvements in What’s new in Android growth instruments.
And the most recent on driving enterprise development
14: What’s new in Google Play
Prepare for thrilling updates from Play designed to spice up your discovery, engagement and income! Learn the way we’re persevering with to develop into a content-rich vacation spot with enhanced personalization and contemporary methods to showcase your apps and content material. Plus, discover highly effective new subscription options designed to streamline checkout and cut back churn. Learn I/O 2025: What’s new in Google Play to be taught extra.
15: Begin migrating to Play Video games Providers v2 right this moment
Play Video games Providers (PGS) connects over 2 billion gamer profiles on Play, powering cross-device gameplay, personalised gaming content material and rewards in your gamers all through the gaming journey. We’re shifting PGS v1 options to v2 with extra superior options and a better integration path. Be taught extra in regards to the migration timeline and new options.
16: And naturally, Android 16
We unpacked a few of the newest options coming to customers in Android 16, which we’ve been previewing with you for the previous few months. When you haven’t already, make sure that to take a look at your apps with the most recent Beta of Android 16. Android 16 consists of Stay Updates, skilled media and digital camera options, desktop windowing and related shows, main accessibility enhancements and rather more.
Take a look at the entire Android and Play content material at Google I/O
This was only a preview of a few of the cool updates for Android builders at Google I/O, however keep tuned to Google I/O over the following two days as we dive into a variety of Android developer matters in additional element. You possibly can take a look at the What’s New in Android and the full Android monitor of periods, and whether or not you’re becoming a member of in particular person or all over the world, we will’t wait to interact with you!
Discover this announcement and all Google I/O 2025 updates on io.google beginning Could 22.
