16 things to know, watch the technical sessions, and Android 15 Beta 2

16 things to know for Android developers at Google I/O!
Google I/O is always a big moment for Android developers, and this year we unpacked a number of big updates, including:
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How to build generative AI into your apps, with GenAI APIs using Gemini Nano for common on-device tasks
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Create delightful new experiences, with Material 3 Expressive, our biggest UI redesign in years
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Building Adaptive, so you can unlock 500 million new users on foldables, tablets, Cars and Android XR
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Increasing your productivity, including new agents for Gemini in Android Studio to help make common tasks easier
Read the blog to stay up to date on the latest Android announcements from #GoogleIO.
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Watch the technical sessions from I/O
This playlist includes technical sessions from Android at Google I/O including Gemini, Jetpack Compose, Android 16, and more. Dive deeper into learning about the topics you care most about.
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Check out some of the biggest Android Dev announcements from I/O
Material 3 Expressive
Android XR
Material 3 Expressive update leverages emotional UX to make products more engaging, intuitive, and desirable for users. The I/O talk further demonstrates how expressive design inspires emotion, guides users, and offers a flexible, personalized experience.
Developer Preview 2 of the Android XR SDK introduces new features for building immersive Android XR experiences. In addition to Samsung's Project Moohan headset launching later this year, XREAL will also release a portable Android XR device soon after, and you can develop for both using familiar Android tools.
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Material 3 Expressive
Material 3 Expressive update leverages emotional UX to make products more engaging, intuitive, and desirable for users. The I/O talk further demonstrates how expressive design inspires emotion, guides users, and offers a flexible, personalized experience.
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Android XR
Developer Preview 2 of the Android XR SDK introduces new features for building immersive Android XR experiences. In addition to Samsung's Project Moohan headset launching later this year, XREAL will also release a portable Android XR device soon after, and you can develop for both using familiar Android tools.
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Gemini in Android Studio
Announcing Jetpack Compose Navigation 3
Gemini in Android Studio, your AI-powered coding companion, boosts developer productivity throughout the development lifecycle. Our recent updates include new agentic AI experiences, journeys and version upgrade agents, which streamline testing and code building.
Explore Jetpack Navigation 3, a new Compose-first navigation library with increased flexibility so Android developers can build robust experiences.
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Gemini in Android Studio
Gemini in Android Studio, your AI-powered coding companion, boosts developer productivity throughout the development lifecycle. Our recent updates include new agentic AI experiences, journeys and version upgrade agents, which streamline testing and code building.
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Announcing Jetpack Compose Navigation 3
Explore Jetpack Navigation 3, a new Compose-first navigation library with increased flexibility so Android developers can build robust experiences.
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Building with Generative AI
What’s new in Wear OS
Generative AI makes apps smarter, more personalized, and more capable, greatly improving the user experience. This year, we've rolled out new ML Kit GenAI APIs powered by Gemini Nano for common on-device tasks, and we've also given developers access to more powerful models such as Gemini Pro, Gemini Flash, and Imagen via Firebase for advanced uses like image generation and processing extensive multimodal data, even bringing AI to life in Android XR.
Wear OS 6, the most powerful and expressive version yet, will launch featuring Material 3 Expressive. This new UI design, with personalized visuals and motion, is available to developers on Wear OS via new Jetpack libraries: Wear Compose Material 3 and Wear ProtoLayout Material 3.
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Building with Generative AI
Generative AI makes apps smarter, more personalized, and more capable, greatly improving the user experience. This year, we've rolled out new ML Kit GenAI APIs powered by Gemini Nano for common on-device tasks, and we've also given developers access to more powerful models such as Gemini Pro, Gemini Flash, and Imagen via Firebase for advanced uses like image generation and processing extensive multimodal data, even bringing AI to life in Android XR.
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What’s new in Wear OS
Wear OS 6, the most powerful and expressive version yet, will launch featuring Material 3 Expressive. This new UI design, with personalized visuals and motion, is available to developers on Wear OS via new Jetpack libraries: Wear Compose Material 3 and Wear ProtoLayout Material 3.
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Android 16 updates
We unpacked some of the latest features coming to users in Android 16, which we’ve been previewing with you for the last few months. If you haven’t already, make sure to test your apps with the latest Beta of Android 16 here. Android 16 includes Live Updates, professional media and camera features, desktop windowing and connected displays, major accessibility enhancements and much more.
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