--- title: "Enhance your app for the new Pixel lineup: Unveiled at Made by Google" url: https://daily.dev/posts/enhance-your-app-for-the-new-pixel-lineup-unveiled-at-made-by-google-dfpcsymy6 source_url: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/pixel-app-experience-made-by-google.html type: article source: "Android Developers Blog" published: 2026-08-12T19:04:20.716Z updated: 2026-08-24T06:51:10.284Z tags: ["android", "jetpack-compose", "wear-os"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Enhance your app for the new Pixel lineup: Unveiled at Made by Google **[Android Developers Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/androiddev)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Google details new Android developer guidance tied to the Made by Google 2026 hardware lineup, including the Pixel 11 Pro Fold and Pixel Watch 5. It covers building adaptive layouts with Window Size Classes and ViewModel state preservation, using FoldingFeature for posture-specific UI, migrating camera code to CameraX for foldable-aware previews, Wear OS 7 features like one-handed gestures, Live Updates, and Wear Widgets built on Jetpack Glance and RemoteCompose (with a claimed 10% battery improvement over Wear OS 6), and on-device AI via Gemini Nano 4 and the ML Kit GenAI Prompt API. It also introduces Android skills, AI-optimized instructions that let agents like Gemini in Android Studio or the Android CLI execute adaptive and camera workflows automatically. Real-world examples from Flo Health, Spotify, and Just Eat illustrate adoption. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What's new in Compose for Wear OS 7 for handling watch gestures? Starting with the 1.7 beta release of Compose for Wear OS 7, developers can integrate one-handed gesture control into Wear Compose apps, letting users trigger actions like pausing or resuming media playback with a double-pinch or wrist turn using only the watch-wearing arm. Spotify is adopting this framework for hands-free media control. _Teams building Wear OS gesture features can track library updates like this one on daily.dev._ ### How much battery life improvement does Wear OS 7 offer over Wear OS 6? Wear OS 7 delivers up to a 10 percent improvement in battery life compared to Wear OS 6, alongside new features like Live Updates, Wear Widgets powered by Jetpack Glance and RemoteCompose, and one-handed gesture support, making devices like the Pixel Watch 5 more capable all-day companions. _Developers weighing Wear OS platform upgrades can follow battery and feature changes like this via daily.dev._ ### What AI model powers on-device intelligence on the Pixel 11? Pixel 11 devices run Gemini Nano 4, enabling low-latency on-device AI without cloud round trips. Developers access it through the ML Kit GenAI Prompt API, which supports over 140 languages, improved multimodal understanding, structured output, and a thinking mode for building intelligent on-device app features. _Developers adding on-device AI to Android apps can keep up with Gemini Nano capabilities through daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#jetpack-compose](https://daily.dev/tags/jetpack-compose), [#wear-os](https://daily.dev/tags/wear-os) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/enhance-your-app-for-the-new-pixel-lineup-unveiled-at-made-by-google-dfpcsymy6)