What's New In Android (2025)

The session covered all the key announcements from Google I/O '25 — from building apps for all form factors, including phones, foldables, wearables, and TVs, to leveraging AI-powered features with new APIs, and boosting productivity using Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Multiplatform, and Gemini.

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1. What’s New in Android Product Highlights & Overview Harun Wangereka Senior Mobile Engineer Smile ID
2. Beyond the phone Building for an expanding and interconnected Android ecosystem On-device AI Bringing powerful, private, and responsive AI directly into your apps. Faster development Build more beautiful, engaging apps in less time with the latest tools. Android Overview
3. On-device AI Bringing powerful, private, and responsive AI directly into your apps. Android Overview
4. Android Overview MLKit GenAI API summarize proofread rewrite describe image
5. Android Overview Beyond the phone Building for an expanding and interconnected Android ecosystem
6. Android Overview Beyond the phone Building for an expanding and interconnected Android ecosystem 500M+ devices
7. Android Overview Beyond the phone Jetpack Compose Material Adaptive Layouts Navigation3 library
8. Principles Navigation3 Library You own the backstack Pick you own building blocks Get out of your way
9. Features Navigation3 Library Animations Adaptive Layouts State Scoping Modularity
10. Android Overview Faster development Build more beautiful, engaging apps in less time with the latest tools. Jetpack Compose Kotlin Multiplatform Gemini in Android Studio
11. Android Overview Faster development Chat Agentic MCP servers Version updates Journeys Code transformation
12. Quick Highlights Google I/O
13. CallStyle for ongoing phone calls. BigText for lengthy messages. Custom call style. Notification styles you are all familiar with
14. In Android 16, we are introducing the new ProgressStyle notification template ProgressStyle for progress centric user journeys. New
15. Custom notifications Highly customizable but at the cost of developer overhead. • Requires testing across different device orientations, resolutions, and versions to ensure design consistency. • Height availability varies across Android OS versions.
16. Kotlin Multiplatform
17. Source: Google Internal Data, March 2025 Google Docs now running KMP in production on iOS with runtime performance on par or better than before.
18. “We share about 55% of our code. This allows our existing mobile team to ship features ~40% faster to Android & iOS”
19. Not every library makes sense for KMP Jetpack modules KMPify everything?
20. Stable Commonized Alpha Room DataStore Collections Paging Saved State View Model
21. Android Studio New project templates* *with the Jetbrains KMP plugin installed
22. Android Studio Add a shared module to an existing project File -> New Module -> Kotlin Multiplatform Shared Module
23. Material 3 Google I/O
27. Before After · Richer dynamic themes
28. Android Overview Play Store • A redesigned app dashboard centered around four developer objectives (Test and release, Monitor and improve, Grow users, Monetize) • 16 KB page size compatibility requirement - Nov 1st 2025