Everything announced at The Android Show: I/O 2026 edition

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Google I/O, nan company's large yearly developer conference, is almost upon us. But nan institution isn't waiting until past to uncover what it has successful shop for Android. There was conscionable acold excessively overmuch news connected that beforehand to compression into nan I/O keynote, truthful Google revealed nan specifications successful nan latest version of The Android Show today. And, my goodness, were location a batch of specifications to reveal.

From Gemini Intelligence and caller laptops successful nan shape of Googlebooks to an AirDrop-related update and Instagram editing devices successful Android, Google had plentifulness of announcements to make.

So, without further ado, here's an overview of everything Google announced during The Android Show: I/O edition.

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Somehow, adjacent period marks nan 15th day of nan first Chromebook. Google is now looking to build connected that instrumentality family pinch a caller lineup: Googlebooks. Not to beryllium confused pinch Google Books, I presume.

These systems are built for Gemini Intelligence, a suite of afloat integrated generative AI features (more connected that successful a moment). If this sounds a small familiar, you mightiness beryllium reasoning of Copilot+, an inaugural Microsoft debuted successful 2024 to item a activity of Windows laptops that tin grip much Copilot tasks locally alternatively than successful nan cloud. The conception didn't precisely drawback fire — data indicated consumers weren't rushing retired to bargain Copilot+ PCs successful expansive numbers.

In fact, Microsoft has started stripping Copilot features out of Windows apps aft users revolted against nan institution for cramming generative AI junk into each imaginable portion of nan operating system. Whether folks will beryllium much accepting of Gemini Intelligence and Googlebooks is thing to support an oculus connected complete nan adjacent mates of years.

In immoderate case, Googlebook laptops will beryllium "seamlessly compatible pinch Android phones," nan institution said. Google has been moving connected a level that unifies ChromeOS and Android, and this is nan adjacent step. For 1 thing, you'll beryllium capable to entree files connected your Android telephone from nan record browser connected your Googlebook. Google is acold down Apple erstwhile it comes to interoperability betwixt its products, and it's trying to drawback up.

Google will uncover much specifications astir Googlebooks successful nan coming months. The first specified laptops will beryllium made by nan likes of Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo, and will deed shelves this fall. 

Google is injecting moreover much Gemini into Android and ChromeOS devices with Gemini Intelligence. "It integrates premium hardware and innovative package to thief you enactment a measurement up by moving proactively to get things done passim your time — each while keeping your information private, and keeping you successful control," nan institution said successful a property release. It's an effort to bring much agentic AI features to much devices that tally connected Google software.

Google is pitching this arsenic a much streamlined measurement to get things done. It suggests that, erstwhile you agelong property connected a market database successful your notes app, you tin inquire Gemini to create a shopping cart pinch each of nan items truthful you tin cheque retired faster. The institution says Gemini will activity successful nan inheritance to do things for illustration locking successful a spot successful a rotation class. You'll still request to corroborate actions earlier Gemini, for instance, books a travel for you.

There's much to Gemini Intelligence than that, though. For Googlebooks, nan Google Deepmind squad helped build a instrumentality called Magic Pointer, which is simply a gesture-based characteristic baked into your cursor. Every clip you wiggle your rodent astatine thing connected your display, Gemini-powered contextual suggestions for what to do pinch it will popular up. For instance, wiggle astatine a day successful an email, and Magic Cursor mightiness propose that you group up a meeting. It sounds for illustration Clippy, but perchance 1,000 times much annoying.

Google is doubling down connected widgets arsenic well, including by bringing them to Googlebooks and Wear OS. Using nan Create My Widget tool, you'll beryllium capable to make civilization widgets pinch a Gemini Intelligence prompt. You mightiness usage this to present caller look suggestions to your telephone each week aliases to bring each of nan accusation astir a travel from sources for illustration Gmail and Calendar into 1 place.

One different point that Gemini Intelligence will beryllium capable to do is link to Autofill pinch Google (the institution says this is wholly optional and you tin opt backmost retired astatine immoderate time). The AI strategy will capable retired forms for you utilizing applicable specifications from connected apps. Google suggests this will travel successful useful erstwhile you're faced pinch punching successful specifications into mini matter boxes connected mobile devices to complete a form.

Gemini Intelligence will bring a refreshed look to your devices arsenic well. Google says this builds connected nan creation connection of Material 3 Expressive, which debuted past year.

Google is promising that you'll person granular power complete Gemini Intelligence, including nan expertise to disable definite features and what information is shared pinch Gemini and definite apps. Gemini Intelligence will only tally successful apps that you licence it to and won't commencement automating immoderate tasks until you show it to.

Along pinch Googlebooks, Gemini Intelligence is coming to devices moving Wear OS, Android Auto, Android XR and, of course, Android. These features will first look connected nan latest Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones, and Google will commencement deploying them starting this summer.

As desktop users whitethorn beryllium good alert by this point, Chrome isn't sheltered from Gemini. The institution will soon bring Gemini successful Chrome to nan web browser connected Android devices arsenic well.

It says this tool, which is built connected Gemini 3.1, "can thief you research, summarize and comparison contented crossed nan web." You tin pat nan Gemini icon astatine nan apical of nan surface to bring up a chatbot and inquire it questions related to nan webpage aliases get explanations for analyzable issues. Gemini successful Chrome tin besides link to different apps, truthful it will beryllium capable to excavation up accusation from Gmail, create events successful Calendar and make notes successful Keep. Gemini successful Chrome features Nano Banana integration arsenic well, truthful you tin make images correct successful your browser aliases customize images from nan web.

An auto-browsing action is said to beryllium capable to transportation retired definite tasks for you, for illustration reserving a parking spot adjacent to an arena you're attending. This will initially beryllium disposable for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers successful nan US. As pinch different Gemini Intelligence agentic features, you'll beryllium prompted for a confirmation earlier nan instrumentality purchases thing aliases carries retired different delicate task, for illustration posting thing connected societal media.

The auto-browsing instrumentality will commencement rolling retired astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic nan remainder of Gemini successful Chrome. Google said it will commencement deploying these astatine nan extremity of June to prime devices successful nan US that are moving astatine slightest Android 12.

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Google has mostly shifted distant from large yearly operating strategy updates successful favour of much predominant Pixel Drops. Still, nan pre-I/O version of The Android Show gives nan institution a chance to springiness you a peek astatine what's coming via Android 17.

The astir breathtaking update for galore will beryllium nan preamble of 3D emoji. Google is calling this postulation Noto 3D. Pixel phones will beryllium nan first to summation entree to these emoji later this year. Google says they'll beryllium disposable crossed its products.

A caller Gemini Intelligence-powered speech-to-text characteristic called Rambler will purpose to region filler words and explain what it seems you're trying to say. "You tin speak people and it will return nan important parts, past fresh them each together into a concise message," Google says. The institution claims that Rambler will moreover relationship for switching betwixt languages mid-sentence. The instrumentality won't prevention aliases shop your speech, which is only utilized for transcription.

A characteristic called Pause Point is designed to thief you usage your telephone much intentionally, fixed really easy it is to disregard things for illustration app timers. If you alteration Pause Point and a time-sucking app, location will beryllium a 10-second hold during which you'll beryllium prompted to see conscionable why you're trying to usage it. Pause Point mightiness propose a breathing exercise, mounting a timer, immoderate photos for you to look astatine aliases a different app that mightiness yet beryllium much edifying.

It won't beryllium ace easy to move disconnected Pause Point wholly either. You'll request to restart your telephone to do so, which could beryllium capable of a sticking constituent for galore group to see whether that's a bully idea. Anything that tin thief much group trim nan clip they walk doomscrolling has to beryllium a affirmative step.

There are features connected nan measurement for creators too, including Screen Reactions. The thought pinch this is that you'll beryllium capable to grounds yourself and your surface simultaneously. This could make it easier for you to respond to a caller opus aliases thing absorbing connected nan web and station a video astir it. Pixel devices will first get entree to Screen Reactions this summer. Also successful nan coming months, expect to spot an Adobe Premiere app deed Android. This will characteristic exclusive templates and effects, Google says, on pinch nan action to station YouTube Shorts without having to move apps.

Elsewhere, Google says it teamed up pinch Apple to make nan process of switching from iOS to Android easier by wirelessly transferring information including passwords, photos, messages, apps, contacts and moreover your eSIM. Pixel and Samsung Galaxy devices will beryllium nan first to support this option, starting later this year.

In addition, Google is making Quick Share compatible pinch Apple's AirDrop crossed Android handsets from partners including Samsung, Oppo, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi and Honor later this year. Plus, starting today, you'll beryllium capable to make a QR codification connected immoderate Android telephone via speedy share, and usage this to stock accusation to iOS devices via nan cloud. It's a workaround, but it could do nan instrumentality for now. On apical of that, Quick Share will soon beryllium disposable successful much apps, including Whatsapp.

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There was plentifulness of news for Instagram users successful The Android Show. Google says nan Instagram app is now afloat optimized for Android tablets. It took Meta 15 years to make a due iOS app, truthful it's bully to spot that nan Android type has been fixed nan aforesaid treatment.

Google and Meta person besides brought Instagram seizure and editing devices to Android arsenic well. You'll beryllium capable to seizure and position ultra HDR video connected higher-end Android devices, and nan app will connection built-in video stabilization. There will beryllium nighttime show features too.

The Instagram Edits app for Android is besides getting an upgrade. AI models moving connected your instrumentality will beryllium capable to upscale photos and videos pinch a azygous tap. One different neat characteristic successful nan app will create abstracted audio tracks truthful you can, for instance, summation nan measurement of euphony and return retired upwind noises.

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As companies for illustration Google proceed to nudge america toward utilizing agentic AI systems and grow their capabilities, concerns regarding privateness and information proceed to grow. The institution claims that galore of nan Gemini Intelligence features harness nan aforesaid systems that protect different Google products, and that your information will stay wrong its ecosystem.

It said that it's adding further protections to Android for erstwhile nan AI systems transportation retired actions connected your behalf to adhd much protection against risks for illustration punctual injection. Google added successful a property merchandise that it's utilizing "technologies for illustration Private Compute Core, Private AI Compute aliases protected KVM to safeguard ambient information processed by proactive assistance features, for illustration Magic Cue." The institution besides said that third-party experts person audited "key parts of our AI information architecture," which are unfastened source.

The institution is touting transparency into what Gemini Intelligence is doing for you arsenic good arsenic really your information is used. For instance, erstwhile you're utilizing Rambler speech-to-text, location will beryllium an parameter that makes it clear nan characteristic is enabled. In addition, you'll beryllium capable to spot erstwhile Gemini Intelligence is moving (thanks to an icon successful nan notification bar) and watch its advancement connected a task successful real-time by opening nan app it's automating. What's more, you'll soon beryllium capable to spot connected Android Privacy Dashboard which AI assistants were enabled and nan apps they tapped into successful nan erstwhile 24-hour period.

Google is besides enhancing information successful different ways connected Android, specified arsenic pinch stronger protections against spoofed telephone calls that look to beryllium from a financial institution. The institution has collaborated pinch immoderate banks and different institutions to create a characteristic that verifies whether a telephone is really from 1 of them and automatically hangs up if not. Android will usage respective methods to verify specified calls if you person an app from an eligible institution installed and you're signed into it. Google's first partners for this characteristic are Revolut, Itaú and Nubank, pinch much to follow. It will beryllium disposable connected devices moving astatine slightest Android 11.

The institution is besides expanding its unrecorded threat discovery tools, including pinch warnings astir perchance harmful actions. For instance, connected Android 17, a characteristic called move awesome monitoring will beryllium connected nan lookout for apps that prosecute successful suspicious activity "like changing aliases hiding their icon and past launching from nan inheritance aliases abusing accessibility permissions," Google said.

Those who sideload apps by downloading them connected Chrome connected Android should beryllium amended protected if they person Safe Browsing turned on. Google will scan nan record for known malware and extremity you earlier downloading nan app if it detects any.

On nan instrumentality level, Google is reducing nan number of times personification tin incorrectly participate a password aliases PIN connected an Android 17 telephone aliases tablet and adding a longer hold betwixt attempts aft failures. By default, nan device's IMEI will beryllium accessible done nan fastener surface connected devices moving Android 12 and supra (though you tin move this disconnected if you prefer). Manufacturers, web operators and constabulary tin usage this number to verify that you're nan proprietor of a instrumentality and hopefully return it.

You'll person much granular power complete really apps usage your location successful Android 17. It'll beryllium imaginable to only alteration your precise location for definite tasks erstwhile nan app is unfastened to minimize its knowledge of wherever you are and what you're doing. Google is besides yet giving developers a measurement to inquire for a circumstantial interaction to thief you find a definite friend successful their apps, alternatively than you having to fork complete your full interaction list.

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Google is overhauling Android Auto and cars pinch Google built-in systems. Gemini, of course, is profoundly rooted successful nan new-look Android Auto, which has a refreshed quality based connected nan Material 3 Expressive design. Google has retooled Android Auto to fresh immoderate style of infotainment strategy display.

The institution is revamping a drawstring of apps too, including Google Maps. Google is bringing what it calls Immersive Navigation to nan app. This is simply a 3D position that shows structures and terrain, on pinch specifications for illustration roadworthy lanes, signs and postulation lights. You'll beryllium capable to create civilization widgets for Android Auto, while media apps for illustration YouTube Music and Spotify are getting a ocular refresh.

When you're parked — possibly while waiting for your EV to recharge — you'll beryllium capable to watercourse video connected YouTube and different apps successful 60fps afloat HD. Google says it will commencement offering this later this twelvemonth successful supported models from BMW, Ford, Genesis, Hyundai, Kia, Mahindra, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Škoda, Tata and Volvo.

When you deed nan roadworthy again, nan videos will move to audio-only mode arsenic agelong arsenic nan app supports inheritance audio. Spatial audio is connected nan measurement to Android Auto arsenic well, pinch Dolby Atmos support successful prime apps and cars, specified arsenic BMW, Genesis, Mahindra, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Škoda, Tata and Volvo models.

If your telephone supports Gemini intelligence, you'll beryllium capable to usage that successful Android Auto. Google says that a characteristic called Magic Cue will beryllium capable to woody pinch thing for illustration a friend texting you astir an reside by looking astatine different matter messages, Gmail and Calendar for nan applicable information. If it finds nan correct details, it will make a reply, which you tin nonstop pinch a tap. Gemini will besides fto you bid a repast for pickup aliases transportation utilizing sound commands. Doordash is Google's first partner for this feature.

As for cars pinch Google built-in, Google is presently deploying Gemini to those systems. Immersive Navigation successful Google Maps will person a small thing other successful prime cars pinch Google built-in, arsenic it will pat into your vehicle's front-facing camera to connection unrecorded lane guidance.