{"id":413246,"date":"2026-05-05T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413246\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:05:10","slug":"google-hosting-the-android-show-before-i-o-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413246\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hosting The Android Show before I\/O 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Android-Show-I_O-2026.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/04\/28\/android-show-io-2025-teaser\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second year in a row<\/a>, Google will be hosting \u201cThe Android Show | I\/O Edition\u201d before I\/O 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Update 5\/5: Google today officially announced <a href=\"http:\/\/android.com\/io-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Android Show | I\/O Edition<\/a> after the premature unveil last month.<\/p>\n<p>Original 4\/23: <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/04\/14\/google-i-o-2026-sessions\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"711631\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Before the May 19-20<\/a> developer conference, Google will stream The Android Show on Tuesday, May 12 at 10 a.m. PT.\u00a0Google teases that \u201cthis is going to be one of the biggest years for Android yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be one of the biggest years for Android yet. Tune in to The Android Show | I\/O Edition on Tuesday May 12 at 10 AM PT and be the first to take a look at what the future holds.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Google announced <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/05\/13\/android-16-material-3-expressive-redesign\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Material 3 Expressive<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/05\/13\/googles-find-my-device-network-is-now-find-hub\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find Hub<\/a>, and the Gemini expansion to Android Auto, Wear OS, and Google TV. We still saw Android (XR) during the I\/O keynote, but the majority of OS announcements came a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>Google is repeating that format for 2026. Expect consumer-facing announcements at The Android Show, with developer updates happening at I\/O. <\/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\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/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\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/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":"For the second year in a row, Google will be hosting \u201cThe Android Show | I\/O Edition\u201d before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-413246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}