Topic: android development
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Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, Gemini still lags
Google has updated Android Bench, a benchmark for measuring LLM performance in Android app development, adding new models, cost/efficiency metrics, and a revamped framework for developer engagement. The leaderboard now includes eight new prominent models, such as Claude Fable 5 and Qwen 3.7 Max, ...
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Google’s Android CLI upgrade brings smarter agentic app coding
Google announced Android CLI version 1.0 at its I/O conference, enabling developers to use AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex for Android app creation beyond Google's ecosystem. The CLI provides a dedicated "android studio" command that taps into Android Studio's capabilities, a...
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Google's Pixel Laptop and Glow Lights Coming to Phones
Google is developing a hardware notification system called "Pixel Glow", which uses subtle light patterns on the back of devices to signal calls and provide visual feedback for AI interactions. The feature is strongly indicated for the next generation of Pixel smartphones, potentially integrate...
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Chrome Android Adds Material 3 Settings Design
Google is updating Chrome for Android with a new Material 3 design, making the Settings page and overall interface more modern and visually consistent with other Android apps. The redesign uses softer shapes, dynamic colors, and refined typography to create a cleaner, more intuitive experience ai...
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Google's Top AI Models for Android App Development
Google has introduced "Android Bench", a specialized evaluation system to rank AI models based on their proficiency in Android-specific development tasks, addressing a gap left by general coding benchmarks. The benchmark rigorously tests models on core Android frameworks like Jetpack Compose, C...
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Gemini Can Now Use Android Apps via 'AppFunctions'
Google is integrating its Gemini AI with Android via "AppFunctions", a new feature allowing developers to expose app capabilities for local, on-device AI execution, prioritizing privacy and speed. This enables AI-powered, conversational commands to perform tasks within and across apps, such as ...
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Google and Samsung Beat Apple to Key AI Features
Google is launching new "agentic" AI features for Gemini that can perform complex, multi-step tasks directly on Android devices, with initial release on the Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26. This transforms Gemini from a reactive chatbot into an active productivity partner capable of taking action...
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Gemini's 'Screen Automation' Can Order Food and Book Rides on Android
Google is developing "screen automation" for Gemini, enabling it to perform real-world tasks like ordering food or booking rides directly within apps on Android phones. The experimental feature includes warnings that Gemini can make mistakes, placing responsibility on users to supervise its actio...
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Gemini Live Upgrades: New 'Thinking Mode' & Experimental Features
The Gemini app for Android is testing new "Labs" features, including a "Live Thinking Mode" for more detailed responses and "Live Experimental Features" for multimodal memory and personalized results, hinting at an upgrade to the Gemini 3 AI model family. Two additional experimental features are ...
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Android 16 QPR3 Brings 'Screen Automation' to Pixel 10
Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 introduces a new "Screen automation" permission, strongly indicating Google is developing a mobile version of its Gemini AI's "computer use" feature for Pixel phones. The permission would allow approved apps, currently only the Google app, to view and interact with other ap...
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Google Messages' Major Flaw: A Frustrating Reality
Google Messages provides a polished, feature-rich experience on Android but is significantly inferior on web and tablet platforms, lacking core functionality and modern design. Key features like voice messaging and message scheduling are absent on non-mobile versions, and the design feels outdate...
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First Look: Android's NameDrop-Style Contact Sharing Animation
Google is developing a new Android feature for seamless contact sharing by tapping phones together, similar to Apple's NameDrop, currently in early testing with internal names like "Gesture Exchange." The feature will use NFC for initial device detection, but it's unclear if NFC will handle the f...
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Android 17's 'Cinnamon Bun' Codename Confirmed by Canary
The next Android version, internally known as Android 17, has had its dessert codename "CINNAMON_BUN" officially confirmed through code in a recent Canary build, validating earlier rumors. Android 17 is assigned a temporary API level of 10000 during development, but it is expected to become API l...
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The Android Keyboard Shortcut You'll Use Every Day
The Android Clipboard Manager stores a history of copied text, links, and images for up to an hour, allowing users to pin important items and offering more control than single-entry clipboards on other platforms. This tool enhances productivity by enabling users to gather multiple items at once a...
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Create Deepfakes of Friends with OpenAI's New Video App
OpenAI's new Sora app enables users to create AI-generated deepfakes of friends with explicit consent, currently available on an invite-only basis in the U.S. and Canada. The app features "cameos" where users can grant permission for others to produce videos using their likeness, with co-ownershi...
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Adobe Premiere Hits iPhone, Nothing's Custom Widgets Arrive
Adobe has launched a mobile version of Premiere for iPhone, offering desktop-grade video editing tools and AI features like background creation and sound effects, with the core app free but AI tools requiring in-app credits. Nothing introduced the Essential platform, which uses AI to turn natural...
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Android's New Feature Proves Rabbit R1 Was Ahead of Its Time
Google's Computer Control framework introduces agentic AI to Android, enabling apps to run automated tasks in the background using virtual displays for secure and efficient operation. The system ensures security by restricting access to allowlisted applications and requiring explicit user consent...
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Adobe Premiere Pro is Coming to iPhone
Adobe Premiere Pro is launching on iPhone on September 30, offering professional mobile video editing tools without watermarks. The app includes features like 4K HDR support, automatic captions, and integrates Firefly AI for generating media via text prompts. While the base app is free, advanced ...
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