Everything Announced During the Fall Episode of The Android Show

Google’s Fall 2025 episode of The Android Show unveiled a wide range of updates centered on artificial intelligence, productivity, and extended reality, signaling a major step in the company’s AI-driven Android strategy. The announcements spanned across developer tools, app store operations, and hardware — with AI taking the spotlight throughout.

AI Tools for Developers: The New Prompt API and Firebase Integration

Google introduced a new Prompt API for Android developers, now in alpha, enabling full customization of outputs generated by the on-device Gemini Nano model. The API allows developers to pass prompts directly to the model, offering flexibility for building personalized generative AI experiences. The feature supports tasks like text summarization, proofreading, and image description entirely on-device, helping protect user privacy.

The company also expanded AI capabilities through Firebase AI Logic, which now supports Gemini’s “Nano Banana” image generation model and Imagen’s new mask-based editing. Developers can enable users to generate, edit, or enhance images directly within apps. The update also introduced multimodal functionality, allowing Gemini to process text, audio, and images for new use cases in feedback and content generation.

AI-Powered Android Studio and Developer Productivity

A major focus of the episode was on making Android development faster through AI integration in Android Studio. The platform’s Agent Mode now allows developers to describe goals in natural language and automatically apply multi-file code changes. Android Studio can also upgrade APIs, fetch relevant documentation, and even integrate with third-party large language models (LLMs), giving developers flexibility over their AI setup.

Google also announced it is developing a new benchmark for LLMs trained on Android-specific codebases. The benchmark, built on real GitHub repositories, will test models’ ability to complete pull requests and solve real-world development problems. Results from these tests will be made public in the coming months.

Android XR and the Launch of Galaxy XR

The company confirmed the launch of the Samsung Galaxy XR, the first device in a new category of Android-based extended reality hardware. The platform leverages familiar Android frameworks, allowing developers to easily adapt existing apps to spatial environments. Using the Jetpack XR SDK, developers can build immersive interfaces and spatial experiences directly from existing Android codebases.

Google highlighted Calm’s early adoption, where the wellness app was rebuilt for XR within two weeks using existing Android infrastructure.

Jetpack Navigation 3 Beta and Compose Enhancements

Google announced Jetpack Navigation 3 has entered beta, bringing a redesigned architecture that emphasizes flexibility and composability. The new version introduces adaptive design, built-in animation support, and better alignment with the declarative Compose framework. Developers can access open-source navigation “recipes” on GitHub for faster implementation.

The updates also improve Compose performance and make it easier for developers transitioning from traditional Android Views to the new framework.

Google Play: New AI and Automation Tools for Growth

On the app distribution front, Google detailed enhancements to Play Console, including AI-powered analytics summaries, deep link validation for pre-release testing, and Gemini-driven translation tools for app localization. A redesigned, goal-oriented dashboard now provides developers with clearer performance metrics and actionable insights to help align growth strategies with app performance.