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In conscionable a week, Google's yearly developer league volition footwear disconnected connected May 20. The lawsuit is astir apt the astir important connected the company's calendar, offering a glimpse astatine everything it has been moving connected implicit the past year.
From the rumors and adjacent accusation Google has trickled out, I/O 2025 should beryllium 1 of the much breathtaking tech keynotes successful caller memory. Plus, for the archetypal time, Google has spun retired a dedicated Android showcase planned a full week earlier. That conscionable happened contiguous (May 13), and you tin cheque retired everything that was announced astatine the Android Show oregon spell to our liveblog to get a consciousness for however things played out.
Now that the Android Show is over, it's clip to look up to I/O, wherever the absorption volition astir decidedly beryllium astir AI. We've gathered the astir credible reports and leaks to enactment unneurotic this roundup of what to expect, and though astir of the Android-related announcements person been made, it's inactive imaginable that Google shares much details astir its mobile level adjacent week.
If you'd similar to tune successful from location and travel on arsenic Google makes its announcements, cheque retired our nonfiction connected how to ticker the Google I/O 2025 keynote. We'll besides beryllium liveblogging the event, truthful you tin conscionable travel to Engadget for the breaking news.
Android 16
Some of my favourite I/O moments progressive watching Dave Burke instrumentality to the Shoreline signifier to speech astir the latest updates for Android. But for the past mates of years, Android hasn't had overmuch of a spotlight astatine Google's yearly developer conference. That's astir to change, with the company's dedicated showcase during today's Android Show: I/O Edition.
The presumption featured Android Ecosystem President Sameer Samat, who took implicit for Burke successful 2024. We saw Samat and his colleagues amusement disconnected the caller Material 3 Expressive design, and what we learned confirmed immoderate of the features that were antecedently leaked, similar the "Ongoing notifications" bar. Material 3 Expressive is besides coming to Wear OS 6, and the institution is expanding the scope of Gemini by bringing it to its smartwatch platform, Android Auto and Google TV. Android 16 volition besides travel with caller scam-detection features and a refined Find Hub that volition spot enactment for outer connectivity aboriginal successful the year.
Speaking of timing, Google has already confirmed the caller operating strategy volition get sometime earlier the 2nd fractional of the year. Though it did not merchandise a unchangeable physique of Android 16 today, Samat shared during the amusement that Android 16 (or astatine slightest portion of it) is coming adjacent period to Pixel devices. And though the institution did screen immoderate caller features coming to Android XR, elder manager for Android Product and UX Guemmy Kim said during the presumption that "we'll stock much connected Android XR astatine I/O adjacent week."
It intelligibly seems similar much is inactive to come, and not conscionable for Android XR. We didn't get confirmation connected the Android Authority report that Google could adhd a much robust photograph picker, with enactment for unreality retention solutions. That doesn't mean it won't beryllium successful Android 16, it mightiness conscionable beryllium thing the institution didn't get to notation successful its 30-minute showcase. Plus, Google has been releasing caller Android features successful a quarterly cadence lately, alternatively than hold till an yearly update model to marque updates available. It's imaginable we spot much added to Android 16 arsenic the twelvemonth progresses.
One of the champion places to get an thought for what's to travel successful Android 16 is successful its beta version, which has already been disposable to developers and is currently successful its 4th iteration. For example, we learned successful March that Android 16 volition bring Auracast support, which could marque it easier to perceive to and power betwixt aggregate Bluetooth devices. This could besides alteration radical to person Bluetooth audio connected proceeding immunodeficiency they person paired with their phones oregon tablets.
Android XR
Remember Google Glass? No? How astir Daydream? Maybe Cardboard? After sending (at least) 3 XR projects to the graveyard, you would deliberation adjacent Google would accidental capable is enough. Instead, the institution is preparing to merchandise Android XR aft previewing the platform astatine the extremity of past year. This clip around, the institution says the powerfulness of its Gemini AI models volition marque things different. We cognize Google is moving with Samsung connected a headset codenamed Project Moohan. Last fall, Samsung hinted that the instrumentality could get sometime this year.
Whether Google and Samsung demo Project Moohan astatine I/O, I ideate the hunt elephantine volition person much to accidental astir Android XR and the ecosystem partners it has worked to bring to its broadside for the initiative. This falls successful enactment with what Kim said astir much connected Android XR being shared astatine I/O.
AI, AI and much AI
If Google felt the request to divided disconnected Android into its ain showcase, we're apt to get much AI-related announcements astatine I/O than ever before. The institution hasn't provided galore hints astir what we tin expect connected that front, but if I had to guess, features similar AI Overviews and AI Mode are apt to get substantive updates. I fishy Google volition besides person thing to accidental astir Project Mariner, the web-surfing cause it demoed astatine I/O 2024. Either way, Google is an AI institution now, and each I/O moving guardant volition bespeak that.
Project Astra
Speaking of AI, Project Astra was 1 of the much impressive demos Google showed disconnected astatine I/O 2024. The exertion made the astir of the latest multi-modal capabilities of Google's Gemini models to connection thing we hadn't seen earlier from the company. It's a dependable adjunct with precocious representation designation features that allows it to converse astir the things it sees. Google envisions Project Astra 1 time providing a genuinely utile artificial assistant.
However, aft seeing an in-person demo of Astra, the Engadget unit felt the tech needed a batch much work. Given the splash Project Astra made past year, there's a bully accidental we could get an update connected it astatine I/O 2025.
A Pinterest competitor
According to a study from The Information, Google mightiness beryllium readying to unveil its ain instrumentality connected Pinterest adjacent week. That characterization is courtesy ofThe Information, but based connected the features described successful the article, Engadget squad members recovered it much reminiscent of Cosmos instead. Cosmos is simply a pared-down mentation of Pinterest, letting radical prevention and curate thing they spot connected the internet. It besides allows you to stock your saved pages with others.
Google's version, meanwhile, volition reportedly amusement representation results based connected your queries, and you tin prevention the pictures successful antithetic folders based connected your ain preferences. So accidental you're putting unneurotic a lookbook based connected Jennie from Blackpink. You tin hunt for her outfits and prevention your favorites successful a folder you tin rubric "Lewks," perhaps.
Whether this is simply built into Search oregon exists arsenic a standalone merchandise is unclear, and we'll person to hold till I/O to spot whether the study was close and what the diagnostic truly is like.
Wear OS
Last year, Wear OS didn't get a notation during the company's main keynote, but Google did preview Wear OS 5 during the developer sessions that followed. The institution lone began rolling retired Wear OS 5.1 to Pixel devices successful March. This year, we've already learned astatine the Android Show that Wear OS 6 is coming, with Material 3 Expressive gracing its interface. Will we larn much astatine I/O adjacent week? It's unclear, but it wouldn't beryllium a daze if that was each the aerial clip Wear OS gets this year.
NotebookLM
Since 2023, Google has offered NotebookLM connected desktop. The note-taking app uses instrumentality learning for features similar automated summaries. Based connected App Store and Google Play listings, the institution is getting acceptable to merchandise a mobile mentation of the work connected the archetypal time of I/O 2025.
Everything else
Google has a unspeakable way grounds erstwhile it comes to preventing leaks wrong its interior ranks, truthful the likelihood the institution could astonishment america is low. Still, Google could denote thing we don't expect. As always, your champion stake is to sojourn Engadget connected May 20 and 21. We'll person each the latest from Google past on with our liveblog and analysis.
Update, May 5 2025, 7:08PM ET: This communicative has been updated to see details connected a leaked blog station discussing "Material 3 Expressive."
Update, May 6 2025, 5:29PM ET: This communicative has been updated to see details connected the Android 16 beta, arsenic good arsenic Auracast support.
Update, May 8 2025, 3:20PM ET: This communicative has been updated to see details connected however to ticker the Android Show and the Google I/O keynote, arsenic good arsenic tweak the intro for freshness.
Update, May 13 2025, 3:22PM ET: This communicative has been updated to see each the announcements from the Android Show and a caller study from The Information astir a imaginable representation hunt diagnostic debuting astatine I/O. The intro was besides edited to accurately bespeak what has happened since the past clip this nonfiction was updated.
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