High 3 Updates for Constructing with AI on Android at Google I/O ‘24

Posted by Terence Zhang – Developer Relations Engineer

At Google I/O, we unveiled a imaginative and prescient of Android reimagined with AI at its core. As Android builders, you are on the forefront of this thrilling shift. By embracing generative AI (Gen AI), you will craft a brand new breed of Android apps that supply your customers unparalleled experiences and pleasant options.

Gemini fashions are powering new generative AI apps each over the cloud and instantly on-device. Now you can construct with Gen AI utilizing our most succesful fashions over the Cloud with the Google AI consumer SDK or Vertex AI for Firebase in your Android apps. For on-device, Gemini Nano is our beneficial mannequin. Now we have additionally built-in Gen AI into developer instruments – Gemini in Android Studio supercharges your developer productiveness.

Let’s stroll by way of the foremost bulletins for AI on Android from this yr’s I/O periods in additional element!

#1: Construct AI apps leveraging cloud-based Gemini fashions

To kickstart your Gen AI journey, design the prompts to your use case with Google AI Studio. As soon as you’re happy together with your prompts, leverage the Gemini API instantly into your app to entry Google’s newest fashions resembling Gemini 1.5 Professional and 1.5 Flash, each with a million token context home windows (with two million obtainable through waitlist for Gemini 1.5 Professional).

If you wish to be taught extra about and experiment with the Gemini API, the Google AI SDK for Android is a superb place to begin. For integrating Gemini into your manufacturing app, think about using Vertex AI for Firebase (at present in Preview, with a full launch deliberate for Fall 2024). This platform presents a streamlined approach to construct and deploy generative AI options.

We’re additionally launching the primary Gemini API Developer competitors (phrases and situations apply). Now could be the most effective time to construct an app integrating the Gemini API and win unbelievable prizes! A customized Delorean, anybody?

#2: Use Gemini Nano for on-device Gen AI

Whereas cloud-based fashions are extremely succesful, on-device inference allows offline inference, low latency responses, and ensures that knowledge received’t depart the machine.

At I/O, we introduced that Gemini Nano shall be getting multimodal capabilities, enabling gadgets to know context past textual content – like sights, sounds, and spoken language. It will assist energy experiences like Talkback, serving to people who find themselves blind or have low imaginative and prescient work together with their gadgets through contact and spoken suggestions. Gemini Nano with Multimodality shall be obtainable later this yr, beginning with Google Pixel gadgets.

We additionally shared extra about AICore, a system service managing on-device basis fashions, enabling Gemini Nano to run on-device inference. AICore gives builders with a streamlined API for operating Gen AI workloads with nearly no influence on the binary measurement whereas centralizing runtime, supply, and important security parts for Gemini Nano. This frees builders from having to keep up their very own fashions, and permits many purposes to share entry to Gemini Nano on the identical machine.

Gemini Nano is already remodeling key Google apps, together with Messages and Recorder to allow Good Compose and recording summarization capabilities respectively. Outdoors of Google apps, we’re actively collaborating with builders who’ve compelling on-device Gen AI use instances and signed up for our Early Entry Program (EAP), together with Patreon, Grammarly, and Adobe.

Adobe is one in all these trailblazers, and they’re exploring Gemini Nano to allow on-device processing for a part of its AI assistant in Acrobat, offering one-click summaries and permitting customers to converse with paperwork. By strategically combining on-device and cloud-based Gen AI fashions, Adobe optimizes for efficiency, price, and accessibility. Easier duties like summarization and suggesting preliminary questions are dealt with on-device, enabling offline entry and value financial savings. Extra complicated duties resembling answering consumer queries are processed within the cloud, guaranteeing an environment friendly and seamless consumer expertise.

That is only the start – later this yr, we’ll be investing closely to allow and goal to launch with much more builders.

To be taught extra about constructing with Gen AI, take a look at the I/O talks Android on-device GenAI underneath the hood and Add Generative AI to your Android app with the Gemini API, together with our new documentation.

#3: Use Gemini in Android Studio that can assist you be extra productive

Apart from powering options instantly in your app, we’ve additionally built-in Gemini into developer instruments. Gemini in Android Studio is your Android coding companion, bringing the facility of Gemini to your developer workflow. Due to your suggestions since its preview as Studio Bot ultimately yr’s Google I/O, we’ve advanced our fashions, expanded to over 200 international locations and territories, and now embrace this expertise in secure builds of Android Studio.

At Google I/O, we previewed a lot of options obtainable to strive within the Android Studio Koala preview launch, like natural-language code ideas and AI-assisted evaluation for App High quality Insights. We additionally shared an early preview of multimodal enter utilizing Gemini 1.5 Professional, permitting you to add photographs as a part of your AI queries — enabling Gemini that can assist you construct totally useful compose UIs from a wireframe sketch.

You possibly can learn extra in regards to the updates right here, and ensure to take a look at What’s new in Android growth instruments.