Posted by Matthew McCullough – VP of Product Administration, Android Developer
At the moment at Google I/O, we introduced the various methods we’re serving to you construct wonderful, 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 too can 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 subjects 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 yr, we introduced new ML Package GenAI APIs utilizing Gemini Nano for widespread 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 advanced use instances like picture technology 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 rework 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 in your app.
New experiences throughout gadgets
2: One app, each display screen: assume adaptive and unlock 500 million screens
Cell 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 related shows. This growth means tapping into an ecosystem of 500 million gadgets – a major alternative to have interaction extra customers whenever you assume adaptive, constructing a single cell 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’ll be able to 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 discuss to study extra about expressive design and the way it evokes emotion, clearly guides customers towards their targets, and provides a versatile and personalised expertise.
4: Smarter widgets, partaking stay updates
Measure the return on funding of your widgets (out there quickly) and simply create personalised widget previews with Look 1.2. Promoted Dwell Updates notify customers of necessary ongoing notifications and include a brand new Progress Fashion standardized template.
5: Enhanced Digital camera & Media: low mild increase and battery financial savings
This yr’s I/O introduces a number of digicam and media enhancements. These embrace a software program low mild increase for improved pictures 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 info.
6: Construct next-gen app experiences for Automobiles
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 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 progressive apps to vehicles. Study extra from our technical session and weblog submit 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 in the present day 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 Venture Moohan, you’ll additionally see extra gadgets 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 study extra about constructing for Android XR.
8: Specific 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 personalised 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 supplies elements for apps and Put on ProtoLayout Materials 3 which supplies elements and layouts for tiles. Get began with Materials 3 libraries and different updates on Put on.
9: Interact customers on Google TV with wonderful TV apps
You’ll be able to leverage extra assets inside Compose’s core and Materials libraries with the steady launch of Compose for TV, empowering you to construct wonderful 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 sooner with Jetpack Compose
Compose is our massive guess for UI growth. The most recent steady BOM launch supplies the options, efficiency, stability, and libraries that you must construct lovely adaptive apps sooner, so you may deal with what makes your app beneficial to customers.
11: Kotlin Multiplatform: new Shared Template helps you to construct throughout platforms, simply
Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) allows groups to achieve 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, 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 in the present day, 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’ll be able to 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 show you how to keep forward in a dynamic cell panorama. To take benefit, improve to the most recent Studio launch. You’ll be able to 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! Find out how we’re persevering with to grow to be 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 scale back churn. Learn I/O 2025: What’s new in Google Play to study extra.
15: Begin migrating to Play Video games Companies v2 in the present day
Play Video games Companies (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 transferring PGS v1 options to v2 with extra superior options and a better integration path. Study 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. If you happen to haven’t already, make certain to take a look at your apps with the most recent Beta of Android 16. Android 16 contains Dwell Updates, skilled media and digicam options, desktop windowing and related shows, main accessibility enhancements and far 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 spread of Android developer subjects in additional element. You’ll be able to 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 around the globe, we are able to’t wait to have interaction with you!
Discover this announcement and all Google I/O 2025 updates on io.google beginning Might 22.
