Posted by Matthew McCullough – VP of Product Administration, Android Developer
In the present day at Google I/O, we introduced the numerous methods we’re serving to you construct glorious, adaptive experiences, and serving to you keep extra productive by way of 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 too can see what was introduced final week in The Android Present: I/O Version. And keep tuned over the subsequent 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, customized and agentic. This yr, we introduced new ML Package GenAI APIs utilizing Gemini Nano for frequent on-device duties like summarization, proofreading, rewrite, and picture description. We additionally supplied capabilities for builders to harness extra highly effective fashions resembling Gemini Professional, Gemini Flash, and Imagen through Firebase AI Logic for extra complicated use circumstances like picture era and processing intensive 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 suitable answer to your app.
New experiences throughout gadgets
2: One app, each display screen: assume adaptive and unlock 500 million screens
Cellular Android apps kind the inspiration throughout telephones, foldables, tablets and ChromeOS, and this yr we’re serving to you carry them to vehicles and XR and increasing usages with desktop windowing and linked shows. This enlargement means tapping into an ecosystem of 500 million gadgets – a big alternative to interact extra customers once 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 may see how Peacock, NBCUniveral’s streaming service (out there within the US) is constructing adaptively to satisfy customers the place they’re.
3: Materials 3 Expressive: design for instinct and emotion
The brand new Materials 3 Expressive replace gives instruments to boost 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 study extra about expressive design and the way it conjures up emotion, clearly guides customers towards their objectives, and gives a versatile and customized expertise.
4: Smarter widgets, partaking reside updates
Measure the return on funding of your widgets (out there quickly) and simply create customized widget previews with Look 1.2. Promoted Reside Updates notify customers of essential ongoing notifications and include a brand new Progress Fashion standardized template.
5: Enhanced Digicam & Media: low gentle increase and battery financial savings
This yr’s I/O introduces a number of digital camera and media enhancements. These embrace a software program low gentle increase 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 classes on built-in results inside CameraX and Media3 for additional data.
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, assist for extra app classes like Video games and Video, and enhanced capabilities for media and communication apps through the Automotive App Library and new APIs. Alongside up to date automotive 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 carry your revolutionary apps to vehicles. Study 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 at present 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 gadgets: along with the primary Android XR headset, Samsung’s Undertaking Moohan, you’ll additionally see extra gadgets together with a brand new moveable Android XR system 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 study extra about constructing for Android XR.
8: Categorical your self on Put on OS: meet Materials Expressive on Put on OS 6
This yr 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 customized visuals and movement for person creativity, coming to Put on, Android, and Google apps later this yr. Builders achieve entry to Materials 3 Expressive on Put on OS by using new Jetpack libraries: Put on Compose Materials 3, which gives parts for apps and Put on ProtoLayout Materials 3 which gives 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 may leverage extra sources inside Compose’s core and Materials libraries with the secure 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 lovely apps quicker with Jetpack Compose
Compose is our large wager for UI growth. The newest secure BOM launch gives the options, efficiency, stability, and libraries that you might want to construct lovely adaptive apps quicker, so you’ll be able to concentrate on what makes your app precious to customers.
11: Kotlin Multiplatform: new Shared Template allows you to construct throughout platforms, simply
Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) permits 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 want to get began with KMP. Shared module templates make it simpler for builders to craft, preserve, 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 at present, we previewed new agentic AI experiences, Journeys for Android Studio and Model Improve Agent. These improvements make it simpler to construct and check code. You may 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 making certain apps are future-proofed in our ever-evolving Android ecosystem. These improvements speed up growth cycles, enhance app high quality, and provide help to keep forward in a dynamic cellular panorama. To take benefit, improve to the newest Studio launch. You may learn extra about these improvements in What’s new in Android growth instruments.
And the newest on driving enterprise progress
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 turn into a content-rich vacation spot with enhanced personalization and recent 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 study extra.
15: Begin migrating to Play Video games Companies v2 at present
Play Video games Companies (PGS) connects over 2 billion gamer profiles on Play, powering cross-device gameplay, customized gaming content material and rewards to your gamers all through the gaming journey. We’re shifting PGS v1 options to v2 with extra superior options and a neater integration path. Study extra concerning the migration timeline and new options.
16: And naturally, Android 16
We unpacked a number of the newest options coming to customers in Android 16, which we’ve been previewing with you for the previous couple of months. If you happen to haven’t already, be sure to check your apps with the newest Beta of Android 16. Android 16 contains Reside Updates, skilled media and digital camera options, desktop windowing and linked 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 number of the cool updates for Android builders at Google I/O, however keep tuned to Google I/O over the subsequent two days as we dive into a variety of Android developer matters in additional element. You may take a look at the What’s New in Android and the full Android monitor of classes, and whether or not you’re becoming a member of in individual 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.