Google I / S, the annual conference of the developer of the research giant, will begin on Tuesday, May 20. The event is undoubtedly the most important in the annual calendar of the company, offering the company the opportunity to share an overview of everything he worked in the past year – and to contextualize his biggest priorities for the next twelve months.
Google E / S dance card was apparently so crowded that the company transformed a dedicated Android showcase a week earlier. (See everything that has been announced on the Android show or go to our blog live to get an idea of how things have gone.) With this event now behind us, Google can remain focused on its most important basic competence: AI.
Google’s presentation will occur to the announcements of three major rivals in recent days. Higher on the Pacific coast, Microsoft Hosts his conference as a construction developer, where he has already unveiled a Copilot AI application. Meanwhile, at Calpex Show in Taiwan, the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, underlined a partnership with Foxconn to develop an “AI factory supercomputer” powered by 10,000 Puces Ai Blackwell. And Meta held her first Llamacon conference last month, but the plans of the CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the domination of the AI would have since struck. (Apple Will share its roadmap updated on June 9 when its conference by WWDC developers begins.)
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Android 16
The presentation featured the president of the Android ecosystem, Sameer Samat, who took over for Burke in 2024. We saw Samat and his colleagues show years, Android did not have many projectors at the annual conference of Google developers. Fortunately, the Android show of last week allowed the Google mobile operating system to take the projectors for at least one day.
The presentation featured the president of the Android ecosystem, Sameer Samat, who took over for Burke in 2024. We saw Samat and his colleagues show the new expressive design of equipment 3, and what we learned confirmed some of the features that have been disclosed before, such as the “notifications in progress”. Material 3 Expressive also comes to carry the operating system 6, and the company widens the scope of Gemini by broadcasting it on its SmartWatch, Android Auto and Google TV platform. Android also amplifies its scam detection features and a refined research center that will see the management of satellite connectivity later in the year.
Speaking of timing, Google has already confirmed that the new operating system will arrive some time before the second half. Although it has not published a stable version of Android 16 today, Samat shared during the show that Android 16 (or at least part of it) arrives next month on Pixel devices. And although the company has covered new features to come on Android XR, Product Director of Product Android and UX Guemmy Kim said during the presentation that “we will share more on Android XR at E / S next week”.
It clearly seems that the more to come, and not only for Android XR. We did not have confirmation on the Android authority Note that Google could add a more robust photo selector, with the management of cloud storage solutions. This does not mean that it will not be in Android 16, it could be something that the company was not mentioned in its 30 -minute window. In addition, Google has recently published new Android features in a quarterly rate, rather than waiting for an annual update window to make updates available. We may see more added to Android 16 as the year is progressing.
One of the best places to get an idea of what will come to Android 16 is in its beta version, which has already been available for developers and is Currently in its fourth iteration. For example, we learned in March that Android 16 will bring the Auracast support, which could facilitate listening and switch between several Bluetooth devices. This could also allow people to receive Bluetooth audio on hearing aids they have associated with their phones or tablets.
Android XR
Do you remember Google Glass? No? And daydream? Maybe by cardboard? After having (at least) sent three XR projects to the graveyardYou might think that even Google would say it’s enough. Instead, the company is preparing to publish Android XR after previewing the platform at the end of last year. This time, society claims that the power of its Gemini AI models would make things different. We know that Google works with Samsung on a coded name of Moohan helmet cod. Last fall, Samsung suggested that the aircraft could arrive this year.
That Google and Samsung Demo Project Moohan at E / S, I imagine that the research giant will have more to say on Android XR and the ecosystem partners she worked to bring to her side for the initiative. This corresponds to what Kim said on more on Android XR shared at E / S.
Ai, ai, more ai
If Google felt the need to separate Android into its own shop, we are probably more than ever obtained on IA -related announcements at E / S. The company did not provide many tips on what we can expect on this front, but if I had to guess, features such as IA previews and IA mode are likely to obtain substantial updates. I suspect that Google will also have something to say on Project Mariner, the web agent he has made of 2024. Anyway, Google is an AI company now, and each E / S in the future will reflect this.
Astra project
Speaking of AI, Project Astra was one of the most impressive demos that Google showed at E / S 2024. The technology has benefited from the latest multimodal capacities of Google Gemini models to offer something that we had never seen before the company. It is a vocal assistant with advanced image recognition features that allows him to converse on the things she sees. Google plans an ASTRA project, offering a really useful artificial assistant.
However, after seeing an Astra’s demo in person, the committee of Engadget said that technology needed much more work. Given the Splash project that Astra made last year, there is a good chance that we can obtain an update at E / S 2025.
A competitor Pinterest
According to a report of InformationGoogle could consider revealing its own interpretation of Pinterest to E / S. This characterization is graceful ofInformation, But on the basis of the features described in the article, the members of the committee team found it more recalling Cosmos instead. Cosmos is a clean version of Pinterest, allowing people to save and manage everything they see on the Internet. It also allows you to share your recorded pages with others.
The Google version, on the other hand, will display the results of the image according to your requests, and you can save the images in different folders according to your own preferences. So let’s say that you create a lookbook based on Jennie de Blackpink. You can search for your outfits and save your favorites in a folder that you can title “Lewks”, perhaps.
Whether it is simply integrated into research or exists as an autonomous product is not clear, and we will have to wait for the E / S to see if the report was exact and what the functionality really looks like.
To carry
Last year, Wear OS was not mentioned during the main speech of the company, but Google previewed Wear OS 5 during the developer sessions that followed. The company only started to deploy Porter bone 5.1 to Pixel devices in March. This year, we have already taught The Android Show that Wear OS 6 arrives, with expressive Material 3 adorning its interface. Are we going to know more about I / O? It is not clear, but it would not be a shock if that was all that the air time operating system obtains this year.
Notebook
Google has jumped the pistol And has already launched an autonomous application notebooklm before the E / S. The application for taking automatic learning notes, available in office browsers since 2023, can summarize documents and even synthesize summaries of complete NPR podcast to start.
Everything else
Google has terrible history when it comes to preventing leaks in its internal ranks, so the probability that society can surprise us is low. However, Google could announce something that we do not expect. As always, your best bet is to visit Engadget on May 20 and 21. We will all have the latest from Google with our blog and our live analysis.
Update, May 5, 2025, 19:08 pm HE: This story has been updated to include details on a blog article disclosing discussing the expressive “material 3”.
Update, May 6, 2025, 5:29 PM HE: This story has been updated to include details on the Android 16 Beta, as well as the Auracast support.
Update, May 8, 2025, 3:20 p.m. HE: This story has been updated to include details on how to watch the Android and Keynote of E / S Google show, as well as to modify the intro of freshness.
Update, May 13, 2025, 3:22 PM HE: This story has been updated to include all the announcements of the Android program and a new report Information About a possible image search feature that begins at E / S. The intro has also been published to reflect with precision what has happened since the last time this article was updated.
Update, May 14, 2025, 4:32 p.m.: This story has been updated to include details on other events that occur at the same time as Google E / S, including Microsoft Build 2025 and Computex 2025.
Update, May 19, 2025, 5:13 PM HE: Update new competitors of Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia AI, and contextualized rumors and final reports before E / S.
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