Posted by Meghan Mehta – Android Developer Relations Engineer
#1 Agentic AI is offered for Gemini in Android Studio
Gemini in Android Studio is the AI-powered coding companion that makes you extra productive at each stage of the dev lifecycle. At Google I/O 2025 we previewed new agentic AI experiences: Journeys for Android Studio and Model Improve Agent. These improvements make it simpler so that you can construct and check code. We additionally introduced Agent Mode, which was designed to deal with advanced, multi-stage growth duties that transcend typical AI assistant capabilities, invoking a number of instruments to perform duties in your behalf. We’re excited to see the way you leverage these agentic AI experiences which at the moment are obtainable within the newest preview model of Android Studio on the canary launch channel.
You can even use Gemini to robotically generate Jetpack Compose previews, in addition to rework UI code utilizing pure language, saving you effort and time. Give Gemini extra context by attaching photographs and mission information to your prompts, so you may get extra related responses. And in the event you’re on the lookout for enterprise-grade privateness and security measures backed by Google Cloud, Gemini in Android Studio for companies is now obtainable. Builders and admins can unlock these options and advantages by subscribing to Gemini Code Help Customary or Enterprise editions.
#2 Construct higher apps quicker with the newest secure launch of Jetpack Compose
Compose is our really helpful UI toolkit for Android growth, utilized by over 60% of the highest 1K apps on Google Play. We launched a new model of our Jetpack Navigation library: Navigation 3, which has been rebuilt from the bottom as much as offer you extra flexibility and management over your implementation. We unveiled the brand new Materials 3 Expressive replace which supplies instruments to boost your product’s enchantment by harnessing emotional UX, making it extra partaking, intuitive, and fascinating in your customers. The newest secure Invoice of Supplies (BOM) launch for Compose provides new options comparable to autofill help, auto-sizing textual content, visibility monitoring, animate bounds modifier, accessibility checks in assessments, and extra! This launch additionally contains vital rewrites and enhancements to a number of sub-systems together with semantics, focus and textual content optimizations.
These optimizations can be found to you with no code modifications apart from upgrading your Compose dependency. Should you’re trying to check out new Compose performance, the alpha BOM gives new options that we’re engaged on together with pausable composition, updates to LazyLayout prefetch, context menus, and others. Lastly, we have added Compose help to CameraX and Media3, making it simpler to combine digicam seize and video playback into your UI with Compose idiomatic parts.
#3 The brand new Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) shared module template helps you share enterprise logic
KMP allows groups to ship high quality Android and iOS apps with much less growth time. The KMP ecosystem continues to develop: final yr alone, over 900 new KMP libraries have been printed. At Google I/O we launched a brand new Android Studio KMP shared module template that can assist you craft and handle enterprise logic, up to date Jetpack libraries and new codelabs (Getting began with Kotlin Multiplatform and Migrating your Room database to KMP) that can assist you get began with KMP. We additionally shared further bulletins at KotlinConf.
Be taught extra about what we introduced at Google I/O 2025 that can assist you construct higher apps, quicker.
