Google held its 'Android Show: I/O Edition' virtual event, announcing a range of new features and hardware ahead of Google I/O 2026. Key announcements include Googlebooks — a new AI-first laptop line built around Gemini, launching this fall with partners like Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Android is getting a 'Create My Widget' feature for vibe-coding custom home screen widgets using natural language. Gemini gains more agentic capabilities, enabling cross-app multistep tasks, form filling via Personal Intelligence, and auto-browse in Chrome for Android. Android Auto is being refreshed with widgets, edge-to-edge UI, 60fps YouTube playback in supported cars, and Gemini integration. Other updates include 3D emoji, a Gboard dictation cleanup feature called Rambler, expanded Quick Share/AirDrop cross-platform support, an iOS-to-Android transfer tool, a 'Pause Point' digital wellbeing feature, and expanded theft protection rolling out globally with Android 17.
