{"id":689422,"date":"2026-05-23T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689422\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:35:12","slug":"gemini-live-now-works-with-more-connected-apps-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689422\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini Live now works with more &#8216;Connected Apps&#8217; on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gemini-App-Redesign-1-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/05\/19\/gemini-app-google-io-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neural Expressive redesign<\/a>, Gemini Live on Android can now access more first- and third-party \u201cConnected Apps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s update lets you \u201cseamlessly switch from typing a quick question to diving deep into a free-flowing conversation \u2014 and back again \u2014 without missing a beat.\u201d Gemini Live is directly integrated into the text chat experience with a new floating interface.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Gemini Live only integrated with Google Calendar, Tasks, Keep, and Maps, as well as third-party equivalents from Samsung, Honor, OnePlus, Oppo, Tecno, Vivo, and Xiaomi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first-party list <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/gemini\/answer\/15274899#zippy=%2Cconnected-apps-integrated-services-that-can-be-used-in-gemini-live-chats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now includes<\/a> Home, Hotels, Flights, Workspace, Image generation, Shopping, Utilities, YouTube, and YouTube Music, while there\u2019s also Spotify support.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"2424\" data-id=\"715764\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=715764\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Gemini-Live-connected-apps-1.png?w=456\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gemini-Live-connected-apps-1.png\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"2424\" data-id=\"715763\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=715763\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Gemini-Live-connected-apps-2.png?w=456\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Gemini-Live-connected-apps-2.png\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is the same list of services you\u2019ll find on <a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gemini.google.com\/apps<\/a>. Notably, Utilities on Android unlocks timers and alarms. Gemini Live is now nearly on par with the Gemini app, specifically the overlay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One exception is the ability to send Messages using Gemini Live, which was a capability Google first mentioned as coming during Made by Google 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More on Gemini app:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777325120_432_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of the Neural Expressive redesign, Gemini Live on Android can now access more first- and third-party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-689422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}