🪲The fourth beta of Android 17 QPR1 is now rolling out with lots of bug fixes! Android 17 QPR1 Beta 4 (build CP31.260522.006.A1 for Pixel 6a & Pixel 7/Pro, and CP31.260522.006 for all other supported devices) is headed your way! Please continue helping test our QPR1 release!

I used AI Studio to make a totally bespoke and performant native Android app for my family to help manage our cat's chemo care (she's doing good 😻 ). If you haven't tried AI Studio to make a native Android app that fits your needs exactly, I STRONGLY encourage you to give it a shot. It's so good and so easy. You don't have to have the whole idea to start, either. I started small and have been adding features when they occur, just by chatting. It has a simple liveblog tool, 💩 tracker, and med tracker. We can always tell which meds received and when. We can quickly and easily put in status updates on her current condition and whatnot. The whole thing backs up to a Google Doc as a single source of truth and so we have an archive of everything. We can adjust the meds there. Everything syncs. Since it's in Docs, we can ask Gemini to summarize or detail trends and makes it much easier to show up to the vet with accurate info on her condition and progress. I haven't coded a thing myself since I broke websites with PHP in the late 2000s. But now we have this incredible app that fits our needs exactly. I've been able to just use natural language to iterate on it, upload screenshots of things I want to change or fix, and even get help with advanced features like setting up Google Log-In. And then bam, put it on our phones. TRY IT!

We're reducing the cost of our Google AI Plus plan and doubling your storage space. 💰 New price: $4.99 USD/mo or local equivalent (down from $7.99 USD) ☁️ New storage: 400GB (doubled from 200GB) Enjoy!

🐤 2606 Android Canary is now available with an exciting new experimental feature: more theming options! There's now a slider to tweak the hue, & four main color styles for more granular color customization. HUGE fan of this experimental change, and I hope y'all think so too!

Been using this for a few days and it's super fun, some of the suggestions are really impressive! Worth checking out 😃😃

The June Android Drop is here! 🚀 We're constantly evolving the platform to make your daily life safer, more expressive, and genuinely helpful. From scam protection to smoother cross-platform sharing, there's a lot to love in today’s drop: 🛡️ Fake call detection: Alerts that spot suspected scammers impersonating contacts. 🔍 Circle to Search: Find an entire outfit in one go without switching apps. 🤝 Quick Share: Expanding AirDrop compatibility to even more Android devices. Plus, we're launching a new digital Wardrobe in Google Photos, expanded Personal Safety features for families, AI insights in Play Books, and fresh Emoji Kitchen combos. 🎨 Android 17 is also coming to you soon! There’s never been a better time to be on Android. Read all about the June Drop here: blog.google/products-and-pla…

Me: RCS end-to-end encryption is a huge deal! Everybody: Okay Dieter. RCS: Here, I also can help protect against fake calls and scammers. Me: I been sayin!

WHOA @Google let me know they saw my tweet below last year & built a tool to defend against this exact call spoofing AI voice clone attack! As of today, fake call detection on Android alerts when someone is impersonating your contact. Demo & thread of how it catches attackers:

📣 The June Android Drop 💧 is here with new features! The latest Android Drop brings Quick Share's cross-platform sharing capabilities to more devices, a new security tool for detecting phone scammers, and much more. Here's what's new 🧵

Scanning documents from a phone is a pain! Glad to see the new document scanning experience in Google Drive on Android is rolling out now. 📄 Smart Batch Scanning: Scan multiple pages at once, automatically splits them into separate docs. 🚫 Duplicate Detection: Hovering over a page you already scanned? The system instantly catches it. 📸 Auto-Best Frame: We automatically swap out blurry scans for the highest-quality frame available. 🔒 100% On-Device Processing: Lightning-fast performance, offline availability, and total data privacy. Rolling out now on Android; Works on devices with 8GB of memory.

In a totally delightful surprise, I just learned I was featured in a question on @Jeopardy today! 😲😆☺️ Achievement unlocked. ✅

The new @GoogleAIStudio update is WILD y’all! The fact that you can now build, iterate, and deploy Android apps with just a few prompts in a web browser is huge. Anyone can now make their own Android app! e.g. Gemini made me a fully-functional GIF screen recorder for Android🤯

With our latest Gemini update, your Nest cameras (and select ‘Gemini Built-in’ cameras like the brand new onn Outdoor Camera) can not only understand what they see but can now act as natural-language triggers to orchestrate any other smart home devices in your home. 🏡✨ walmart.com/ip/ONN-OUTDOOR-C…

One of the coolest demos at I/O was for an upcoming feature in @AndroidStudio that can convert an app made for iOS into a native Android app in just hours. It's called Migration Assistant, and it lets you generate a fully native Android app from platforms like iOS, React Native, or web frameworks. This frees up time for devs to add Android-specific polishes like custom animations, adaptive layouts, and more.

📣 Wear OS 7 is bringing major improvements to your smartwatch, including flexible and dynamic Wear Widgets! Here's what to expect from the new widget experience in Wear OS 7🧵

Thanks @9to5Google team for having me and @backlon on the show - that was fun!