Google I/O: Updates throughout Gemini, Android Studio, Google Play, and extra

Google I/O is occurring as we speak, and Google has introduced updates throughout a lot of its choices, from Gemini to Colab to Android Studio. 

Gemini 

Gemini Diffusion is a brand new textual content mannequin that delivers a 4-5x enchancment in output pace in comparison with comparable fashions and comparable efficiency to fashions twice as giant. The corporate additionally launched Gemma 3n, a multimodal mannequin designed for working on telephones, laptops and tablets, able to dealing with audio, textual content, picture, and video. 

Moreover, Google revealed two new Gemma mannequin variants: MedGemma for well being purposes and SignGemma for translating signal language into spoken language textual content. 

Gemini Code Help for people and Gemini Code Help for GitHub are each now typically out there as effectively, and are powered by Gemini 2.5. This instrument was first launched as a preview again in February, and as we speak’s GA launch contains a number of new updates, together with chat historical past and threads, the flexibility to specify guidelines to use to each AI technology within the chat, customized instructions, and the flexibility to evaluation and settle for code recommendations in components, throughout recordsdata, or all collectively. 

Different Gemini updates embody Lyria RealTime, an experimental music technology mannequin; a brand new model of Gemini 2.5 Flash; and updates to Google AI Studio, together with built-in documentation, utilization dashboards, new apps, and a Generate Media tab. 

Android Studio

Android Studio now has entry to Gemini 2.5 Professional, unlocking agentic AI capabilities, similar to the flexibility for builders to explain the actions and assertions they need throughout testing and have Gemini create and carry out these checks. 

The App High quality Insights panel has been up to date with extra detailed crash evaluation and suggestions for fixing the underlying concern. 

Different options embody entry to experimental AI options via the Studio Labs menu, the flexibility for Gemini to generate Jetpack Compose preview code, and picture attachment in Gemini.

“Android Studio continues to advance Android improvement by empowering builders to construct higher app experiences, quicker. Our focus has been on enhancing AI-driven performance with Gemini, streamlining UI creation and testing, and serving to you future-proof apps for the evolving Android ecosystem. These improvements speed up improvement cycles, enhance app high quality, and enable you to keep forward within the fast-paced world of cell improvement,” the corporate wrote in a put up. 

Google Play

The corporate introduced a number of Google Play updates that builders ought to concentrate on, together with:

• A brand new Play Console overview pages
• The power to halt fully-rolled out launched
• Higher administration instruments and metrics for retailer listings
• Updates to the Play Integrity API, similar to stronger abuse detection, machine safety replace checks, and the flexibility to detect if a tool is being reused for abuse
• New subject browse pages on the shop homepage
• Multi-product checkout for subscriptions

“Our newest updates reinforce our dedication to fostering a thriving Google Play ecosystem. From enhanced discovery and strong instruments to new monetization avenues, we’re empowering you to innovate and develop. We’re excited for the longer term we’re constructing collectively and encourage you to make use of these new capabilities to create much more impactful experiences. Thanks for being an important a part of the Google Play neighborhood,” the corporate wrote.

Google Colab

Google has reimagined Colab, which initially launched as a Jupyter Pocket book with entry to Google Cloud GPUs and TPUs.  It has been reworked to tackle a extra agentic position, working throughout all the pocket book, taking motion throughout a number of cells, and offering extra correct responses. 

“Coding is an iterative and collaborative expertise, and Colab is designed to be simply that – you possibly can concern quick instructions, use follow-up prompts to refine your concepts, and really work with the agent,” Google wrote in a put up.

Sew

Sew is a brand new experimental instrument from Google Labs that permits builders to create UI designs and different frontend code from textual content prompts or photos/wireframes. 

Builders can create a number of variations of their design, together with experimenting with totally different layouts, elements, and types. Sew designs may be exported to Figma or to code. 

“Sew was born of an thought between a designer and an engineer, each trying to construct a product that optimized their respective workflows. It leverages the multimodal capabilities of Gemini 2.5 Professional to create a extra fluid and built-in workflow between design and improvement,” Google wrote in a put up. 

Firebase Studio updates and Firebase AI Logic

Firebase Studio is an AI workspace that was launched final month. Since its preliminary launch, Google has added a number of new options, together with the flexibility to translate Figma designs into purposes utilizing Builder.io, detect if an app wants a backend and provision it if the immediate features a database or authentication, and swap placeholder photos utilizing Unsplash.

Firebase AI Logic is the evolution and convergence of Vertex AI in Firebase, which permits cell and net apps to entry the Vertex AI Gemini API client-side, and the Genkit framework, which allows builders to make use of Gemini for server-side eventualities. 

With Firebase AI Logic, builders can create AI purposes while not having a customized backend. It contains capabilities similar to picture technology and modifying capabilities via Gemini fashions, experimental assist for hybrid inference, and devoted tooling for Node.js, Python and Go. 

Google additionally introduced a preview for the Firebase AI Logic SDK for Unity that permits recreation builders to include generative AI into their video games.