Google I/O remains to be every week away, however Google’s large bulletins kick off at present with the “Android Present: I/O Version,” the place it’s anticipated to announce the foremost Android ecosystem highlights coming to its annual developer convention.
When the Android Present will occur and the place you’ll be able to watch it
Android Present: I/O Version shall be streaming dwell on YouTube and the Android website on Tuesday, Might twelfth at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Based mostly on final yr’s Android Showwe will anticipate the highlights to incorporate a have a look at the subsequent main Android replace together with bulletins about Gemini options on Android and doubtlessly teases of some extra forward-facing tasks, like Aluminium OS and Android XR.
The Android Present livestream is unquestionably much less time-consuming than I/O’s predominant keynote. Final yr’s Android Present lasted simply over 20 minutes, whereas the complete Google I/O keynote ran for nearly two hours.
The principle occasion throughout Tuesday’s Android Present will seemingly be a have a look at Android’s subsequent large replace, which might embody some design modifications — at the least, that’s what some Android customers suspect. Within the 15-second teaser video for this yr’s Android present, the Android robotic momentarily modifications from its regular stable inexperienced to a translucent, glassy-look with splashes of colour inside. This obtained some customers speculating that Google is giving Android a Liquid Glass look like iOS 26, however Android ecosystem president Sameer Samat replied to a put up about this saying, “Not taking place!”
Whereas the Android robotic within the video does look a bit like Apple’s Liquid Glass, it additionally resembles early glimpses of the Gemini app redesign that has started popping up on macOS, iOS, and Android. Liquid Glass or not, it’s attainable Android 17 can have some visible tweaks that Google will go over throughout Tuesday’s livestream, together with new options and the replace’s launch window.
Betas and early developer previews of Android 17 embody a couple of key options to stay up for, like “app bubbles” that permit customers to tug up in a small windowed “bubble” they will transfer round, like a windowed app on PC. Android 17 can also be anticipated to incorporate more location controlstogether with an possibility for one-time location sharing with apps and an indicator displaying when a “non-system app” is accessing your location.
The Android Present: I/O Version will seemingly embody some highlights about updates coming to Google Gemini, notably options baked straight into Android (or Gemini’s Android app).
One in every of this yr’s bulletins could possibly be the broader roll-out of the Gemini redesign that customers have began seeing on the chatbot’s app. It encompasses a new pill-shaped immediate field with streamlined buttons. The redesign additionally provides some refined splashes of colour within the background, which look similar to the “glassy” look of the Android robotic in Google’s teaser video for this yr’s Android Present.
The Android Present might give us our first official have a look at Aluminium OS, Google’s PC model of Android. An early glimpse of it was leaked in January in a bug report that included display recordings displaying a UI that blends parts of each Android and ChromeOS.
Even when Google does showcase Aluminium OS throughout Tuesday’s livestream, we’d nonetheless have to attend some time for a correct launch. Court documents from Google’s search antitrust case notice that whereas Android ecosystem Sameer Samat acknowledged that Google hopes to launch it in 2026, a full launch won’t occur till 2028, notably for the “enterprise and training sectors.” It could possibly be that Aluminium OS will solely be out there in beta or for testing this yr, with a full launch coming later.
It’s additionally value noting that Aluminium OS could not find yourself being appropriate with all current Chromebooks. The court docket paperwork additionally point out that Aluminium OS “isn’t anticipated to have the ability to assist older {hardware}” as a result of “heavier software program.”
Final yr’s Android Present ended on a teaser for Android XR, with Android ecosystem president Sameer Samat donning a pair of XREAL smart glassesforward of some Android XR announcements at Google I/O 2025. It’s attainable glasses will make an look at this yr’s Android Present, too. Though very like final yr, Google might additionally find yourself saving this for the primary I/O keynote.
