Posted by Matthew McCullough – VP of Product Administration, Android Developer

At this time 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 via updates to our tooling that put AI at your fingertips and all through your improvement lifecycle. Right here’s a recap of 16 of our favourite bulletins for Android builders; you may as well 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 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 12 months, 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 complicated use circumstances like picture era and processing in depth knowledge 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 begin constructing clever experiences by leveraging these new capabilities, discover the developer documentation, pattern apps, and watch the overview session to decide on the fitting answer on your app.

New experiences throughout units

2: One app, each display: suppose adaptive and unlock 500 million screens

Cell Android apps kind the muse throughout telephones, foldables, tablets and ChromeOS, and this 12 months we’re serving to you convey them to vehicles and XR and increasing usages with desktop windowing and linked shows. This growth means tapping into an ecosystem of 500 million units – a big alternative to have interaction extra customers while you suppose adaptive, constructing a single cellular app that works throughout kind components. 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 (obtainable 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 offers instruments to boost your product’s attraction by harnessing emotional UX, making it extra partaking, intuitive, and fascinating for customers. Try 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 dwell updates

Measure the return on funding of your widgets (obtainable quickly) and simply create personalised widget previews with Look 1.2. Promoted Stay Updates notify customers of vital ongoing notifications and include a brand new Progress Fashion standardized template.

5: Enhanced Digital camera & Media: low gentle increase and battery financial savings

This 12 months’s I/O introduces a number of digicam and media enhancements. These embrace a software program low gentle 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 periods 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, assist 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 convey your progressive apps to vehicles. Study extra from our technical session and weblog publish 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 this time 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 Venture Moohan, you’ll additionally see extra units 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 be taught extra about constructing for Android XR.

8: Specific 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 offers elements for apps and Put on ProtoLayout Materials 3 which offers elements 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 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 stunning apps sooner with Jetpack Compose

Compose is our large guess for UI improvement. The newest secure BOM launch offers the options, efficiency, stability, and libraries that it is advisable construct stunning adaptive apps sooner, so you may deal with what makes your app precious to customers.

11: Kotlin Multiplatform: new Shared Template permits you to construct throughout platforms, simply

Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) permits groups to achieve new audiences throughout Android and iOS with much less improvement 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, 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 this time, 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 improvement 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 improvement cycles, enhance app high quality, and allow you to keep forward in a dynamic cellular panorama. To take benefit, improve to the newest Studio launch. You possibly can learn extra about these improvements in What’s new in Android improvement 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! Find out how we’re persevering with to turn out 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 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 at this time

Play Video games Providers (PGS) connects over 2 billion gamer profiles on Play, powering cross-device gameplay, personalised gaming content material and rewards on your gamers all through the gaming journey. We’re transferring PGS v1 options to v2 with extra superior options and a neater integration path. Study extra in regards to the migration timeline and new options.

16: And naturally, Android 16

We unpacked among the newest options coming to customers in Android 16, which we’ve been previewing with you for the previous couple of months. Should you haven’t already, be sure to take a look at your apps with the newest Beta of Android 16. Android 16 contains Stay Updates, skilled media and digicam options, desktop windowing and linked shows, main accessibility enhancements and rather more.

Try the entire Android and Play content material at Google I/O

This was only a preview of among 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 subjects in additional element. You possibly can take a look at the What’s New in Android and the full Android observe of periods, and whether or not you’re becoming a member of in particular person or all over the world, 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 Could 22.