In addition to the gemini live announcements to the 2025 E / S, Google seems to be widely deployed camera and screen sharing for free Android users. This free availability was announced for the first time more than a month ago in a progressive deployment.
In recent days, users have met the prompt “Share your camera or screen with Gemini Live”. This adds two new buttons to the complete interface, while you can also access “share the screen with live” from the superposition of Gemini all over your phone.
During the conversation, you can scroll an application or a website and Gemini will use it for the context. There is a vibration before Live resonates, and you can reduce the notification shade to “stop sharing” at any time.
Meanwhile, you get a viewfinder at Gemini Live when the camera is active. (You cannot deactivate your screen and diffuse.) Press the button in the lower right corner to go to the frontal lens, with Google noting how: “For better results, capture objects with stable movements.”
During the “weeks to come”, Gemini Live can act with the applications / extension support for Google Calenda, Keep, Maps and Tasks. For example: “Plan an evening with friends? Discuss the details of Gemini Live, and that instantly creates an event in your Google calendar. Fancy pizza in deep disht? Ask and get the latest details of Google Maps.”
In the longer term, we have seen Project Astra able to control your Android phone. As a reminder, Google showed the camera and screen sharing last May and it started to deploy in March.
Google is also starting to deploy the sharing of cameras and screen to gemini live on the iPhone and iPad. We see reports on this subject, but it is not yet widely available. The deployment will continue in the coming weeks.
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