Everything announced at The Android Show: Googlebooks, more
Everything announced at The Android Show: Googlebooks, more
https://9to5google.com/2026/05/12/the-android-show-2026/
Publish Date: 2026-05-12 03:00:00
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Like last year, Google is making most of its Android announcements a week before I/O 2026. At The Android Show, we got four sets of announcements.
Gemini Intelligence
Gemini Intelligence is how Google will refer to its best AI features on “advanced” Android devices, including phones, watches, cars, glasses, and laptops.
It integrates premium hardware and innovative software to help you stay a step ahead by working proactively to get things done throughout your day — all while keeping your data private, and keeping you in control.
The first wave of features is coming to the “latest” Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy this summer. There’s a consistent interface for Gemini Intelligence that builds on Material 3 Expressive.
Task automation will work in more apps and support screen/image context. For example: “Imagine you have a long grocery list on your notes app. Just long press the power button over the list and ask Gemini to build a shopping cart with all of the items for delivery.”
Chrome for Android is getting deeper Gemini integration that lets you ask questions and get things done with webpages as context. Auto browse from the desktop browser is also coming to mobile. This capability is coming in late June.
Autofill with Google is getting (opt-in) Gemini Personal Intelligence to support more types of forms in Chrome and other apps.
Gboard Rambler upgrades voice input with Gemini models that understand the core of what you want to type and filters out filler words, pauses, repetition, and self-corrections.
Android is getting generative UI, starting with the ability to create custom homescreen widgets and Wear OS Tiles that are populated by information from the web and your Google apps.
Googlebooks
“Googlebook” is Google’s name for a new category of devices. Today we only get a preview of the effort, which aims to rethink…
