Google is announcing a major upgrade to one of its vibe coding platforms: Beginning today, you can now use AI Studio to build native Android apps.<\/p>\n
With Google AI Studio, you can prompt your idea for an app and preview it with an embedded emulator of Android. When you want to try it out on an actual phone, you can connect an Android device to your computer and install it. In the future, you\u2019ll also be able to invite app testers from AI Studio.<\/p>\n
It sounds like you won\u2019t be able to whip up just any old app of your dreams, though; in a blog post<\/a>, Google says that this \u201cinitial release\u201d of the functionality is focused on \u201cpersonal utility\u201d apps like habit trackers and study quizzes, \u201chardware-enabled experiences\u201d like apps that use your phone\u2019s camera or GPS, and \u201cAI-powered experiences\u201d that rely on Gemini\u2019s API.<\/p>\n And while this new feature might make it easier to create an app, if you want to publish your app on Google Play, it will need to meet Google\u2019s rules. \u201cApp quality continues to be a top priority to Google Play and we will not be changing any of our review processes and standards,\u201d spokesperson Mia Carter tells The Verge. \u201cAI Studio simply lowers the barrier to entry for creating high quality Android apps. Apps created with AI Studio will still need to meet these strict quality and review standards on Google Play.\u201d<\/p>\n At I\/O, Google is making other developer- and app discovery-focused announcements as well. The company is launching a 1.0 version<\/a> of its command-line interface for building Android apps. Google is going to start showing apps as recommendations to Gemini queries in the \u201ccoming weeks\u201d and will surface movies and TV shows beginning \u201clater this year.\u201d And in Google Play, Google is rolling out<\/a> a short-form video feed of \u201cPlay Shorts\u201d<\/a> about apps to users in the US and \u201cselect developers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is announcing a major upgrade to one of its vibe coding platforms: Beginning today, you can now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[182,4329,168,165,3,172,74],"class_list":["post-653124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ai","tag-android","tag-google","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}