Posted by Meghan Mehta – Android Developer Relations Engineer

#1 Agentic AI is offered for Gemini in Android Studio

Gemini in Android Studio is the AI-powered coding companion that makes you extra productive at each stage of the dev lifecycle. At Google I/O 2025 we previewed new agentic AI experiences: Journeys for Android Studio and Model Improve Agent. These improvements make it simpler so that you can construct and take a look at code. We additionally introduced Agent Mode, which was designed to deal with advanced, multi-stage improvement duties that transcend typical AI assistant capabilities, invoking a number of instruments to perform duties in your behalf. We’re excited to see the way you leverage these agentic AI experiences which at the moment are accessible within the newest preview model of Android Studio on the canary launch channel.

You too can use Gemini to mechanically generate Jetpack Compose previews, in addition to remodel UI code utilizing pure language, saving you effort and time. Give Gemini extra context by attaching pictures and mission information to your prompts, so you will get extra related responses. And in the event you’re searching for enterprise-grade privateness and safety features backed by Google Cloud, Gemini in Android Studio for companies is now accessible. Builders and admins can unlock these options and advantages by subscribing to Gemini Code Help Customary or Enterprise editions.

#2 Construct higher apps sooner with the newest steady launch of Jetpack Compose

Compose is our beneficial UI toolkit for Android improvement, utilized by over 60% of the highest 1K apps on Google Play. We launched a new model of our Jetpack Navigation library: Navigation 3, which has been rebuilt from the bottom as much as provide you with extra flexibility and management over your implementation. We unveiled the brand new Materials 3 Expressive replace which gives instruments to reinforce your product’s enchantment by harnessing emotional UX, making it extra participating, intuitive, and fascinating to your customers. The newest steady Invoice of Supplies (BOM) launch for Compose provides new options resembling autofill assist, auto-sizing textual content, visibility monitoring, animate bounds modifier, accessibility checks in checks, and extra! This launch additionally consists of vital rewrites and enhancements to a number of sub-systems together with semantics, focus and textual content optimizations.

These optimizations can be found to you with no code modifications aside from upgrading your Compose dependency. In the event you’re seeking to check out new Compose performance, the alpha BOM provides new options that we’re engaged on together with pausable composition, updates to LazyLayout prefetch, context menus, and others. Lastly, we have added Compose assist to CameraX and Media3, making it simpler to combine digicam seize and video playback into your UI with Compose idiomatic parts.

#3 The brand new Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) shared module template helps you share enterprise logic

KMP permits groups to ship high quality Android and iOS apps with much less improvement time. The KMP ecosystem continues to develop: final 12 months alone, over 900 new KMP libraries had been printed. At Google I/O we launched a brand new Android Studio KMP shared module template that will help you craft and handle enterprise logic, up to date Jetpack libraries and new codelabs (Getting began with Kotlin Multiplatform and Migrating your Room database to KMP) that will help you get began with KMP. We additionally shared extra bulletins at KotlinConf.

Be taught extra about what we introduced at Google I/O 2025 that will help you construct higher apps, sooner.