Google announced updates to its Android CLI command-line tooling that let AI agents access real physical devices remotely through Android Device Streaming over a secure ADB over SSL connection, enabli…
Instagram Direct engineers rebuilt the messaging surface's UI on Jetpack Compose as an AI-native codebase, producing a 50% smaller codebase, a 35% reduction in AI agent execution time, 32% fewer engin…
Google Play is rolling out new subscription capabilities for developers, including Multi-Quantity Subscription Purchase for seat-based team or student access, Usage-Based Billing with prepaid metered …
Google published a tutorial showing Android developers how to build cloud-hosted in-app agentic workflows using the Agent Development Kit (ADK), the AG-UI transport protocol, and the A2UI protocol to …
Google introduced Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA) support in Android Studio, letting developers integrate third-party coding agents including Anthropic's Claude Agent, OpenAI's Codex, and Google's Antigra…
Google released Android Bench 2.0, adding long-horizon tasks (LHT) and agentic evaluation to its benchmark for large language models assisting Android developers. The highest pass rate on the new mult…
Android Studio Quail 4 is now stable, bundling 23 curated Android skills and native integration of Google's Gemma 4 open model for private, offline AI coding assistance. The release adds one-click mod…
Google Play announced enhanced safety measures to prevent generative AI apps from facilitating non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including multi-layered defenses, monetization blocks for violato…
Google announced that Android apps can integrate with the platform's intelligence system using AppFunctions, enabling voice and text commands to perform tasks like expense tracking, itinerary manageme…
Google's Firebase AI Logic SDK now supports cloud and hybrid inference for Android apps, enabling developers to build intelligent features that combine on-device Gemini Nano models with cloud fallback…
Google has open-sourced Jetpacker, a demo travel app built for Google I/O that showcases how to integrate generative AI features into Android apps using on-device and cloud models. The app uses Gemini…
Google announced that its Gemini Nano 4 model, now running on over 140 million devices, can be used through ML Kit's Prompt API to build on-device intelligent features in Android apps, such as summari…
Android Studio Quail 2 is now stable, introducing concurrent agentic workflows, native LeakCanary integration for up to five times faster memory leak tracing, and context-aware crash remediation via A…
Google has updated its Android Bench LLM leaderboard with the Harbor framework, adding new models such as Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.5, and inviting community contributions to the benchmark. The changes…
Google released Android 17, transforming the platform from an operating system into an 'intelligence system' with deep AI integration. The update introduces mandatory large-screen resizability, AppFun…
Google announced at I/O that the Geospatial API is now available as a preview in ARCore for Jetpack XR, enabling sub-meter accurate anchoring of digital content to the physical world. The company demo…
Google announced at I/O 2025 the stable release of Android CLI v1.0 with new features like programmatic version lookup and direct integration with Android Studio. The company also expanded its reposit…
Google announced new AI features for Android at Google I/O 2026, including AppFunctions and tools to integrate Google's AI into apps. Developers can access code snippets, samples, and guides on the An…