Developer announcements
Read about our announcements and takeaways from the Developer keynote on May 20, 2025.
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16 things to know at Google I/O
Google I/O 2025 features 16 key announcements for Android developers, including AI integration; enhancements to design, camera and media; and more.
Announcing Gemma 3n preview: powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI
Gemma 3 Nano is a cutting-edge open model designed for fast, multimodal AI on devices, featuring optimized performance, unique flexibility with a 2-in-1 model, and expanded multimodal understanding with audio, empowering developers to build live, interactive applications and sophisticated audio-centric experiences.
What's new in Play
Google Play aims to help developers succeed with tools and insights, including Play Console security enhancements.
What's new in Android development tools
New features of Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop (2025.2), focus on AI-powered tools with Gemini, enhancements to Compose UI development, and more.
Building agents with Gemini
Google Gemini models offer several advantages when building AI agents, such as advanced reasoning, function calling, multimodality, and large context window capabilities. Open-source frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, and Composio can be used with Gemini for agent development.
Android for Cars I/O 2025
Google I/O 2025 reveals the latest Android for Cars updates, Gemini AI integration, enhanced developer tools, and more.
Stitch, a new developer tool from Google Labs
Stitch, a new Google Labs experiment, uses AI to generate UI designs and frontend code from text prompts and images. It aims to streamline the design and development workflow, offering features like UI generation from natural language or images, rapid iteration, and seamless export to Figma and front-end code.
What's new with agents: ADK, Agent Engine, and A2A Enhancements
Updates to Google's agent technologies include the Agent Development Kit (ADK) with new Python and Java versions, an improved Agent Engine UI for management, and enhancements to the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol for better agent communication and security.
Building AI-powered apps with Firebase AI Logic
The release of Firebase AI Logic, the evolution of Vertex AI in Firebase. This change gives developers more flexibility and makes it easier for them to easily integrate generative AI into their apps.
Top 3 Firebase Studio updates from Google I/O 2025
Building off its exciting launch at Cloud Next, Firebase Studio adds more features, including generating protypes faster, integrate design/Figma files more easily, and automatically add database and authentication services to Firebase Studio apps.
What's new in Firebase at Google I/O 2025
Firebase announced new features to help developers prototype, build, and run AI-powered, full-stack apps faster.
Updates to the Android XR SDK: Introducing Developer Preview 2
The Android XR SDK Developer Preview 2 includes updates to Jetpack XR, Jetpack Compose, Material Design, ARCore, Android XR Emulator, and more.
Coding with Gemini just got easier
Gemini Code Assist for individuals and for GitHub are now generally available and powered by Gemini 2.5.
What’s new in Wear OS 6
Wear OS 6 introduces Material 3 Expressive, a new design system with enhanced personalization and a 10% battery life improvement.
