Android 17 rumors point to Motion Assist, App Bubbles, native app locking, Gemini updates, and Android XR news ahead of Google I/O 2026.

Gemini transforms Android into an intelligence system At its Android Show: I/O Edition, Google unveiled Gemini Intelligence, a next-generation AI assistant that automates multi-step tasks across apps, from booking classes to filling out forms. The system uses contextual awareness from on-screen content and can act across devices including phones, laptops, cars, and wearables. Early access will ...

The highlight of this year’s Android Show was Googlebooks, a new line of laptops running Android. They can cast apps from Android phones, pull files directly from a connected Android device, and offer contextual AI suggestions using the mouse pointer. Google says the first of these Chromebook successors are “coming this fall.”

I/O Edition on Tuesday. The second edition of the virtual-only event will take place on May 12 and will build up to the company's developer conference later this month. The Mountain View-based tech giant says this will be one of the biggest years for Android,

I’ve always considered myself an Android geek. I had more than a few Google Nexus devices and have, on and off, used the Pixel family as well. I always loved knowing I had the version of Android that was closest to Google’s vision for the platform, and ...

A whole new approach to multitasking on its way to Android — and you can start benefitting from its brilliance this minute. It isn’t often that we see an interface addition so significant — so shape-shifting — that it has the potential to ...