Google IO 2025: Gemma, Android, Chrome, and Flutter Updates

Gemmaverse Expansion and AI Studio

• 🚀 The Gemmaverse is rapidly expanding, building on the release of Gemma 3, which features an upgraded context window, 1 billion parameters, image/video modalities, and 140 language support.
• 💡 Over 70,000 Gemma open model variants have been published, including notable examples like Dolphin Gemma, Sign Gemma, and Shield Gemma 2.
• 🛠️ AI Studio now allows users to deploy Gemma models to Google Cloud Run, creating an endpoint URL in seconds.

Android: Privacy, Security, and UI Enhancements

• 🔒 Android 16 is nearing release, with a minor API release planned. New privacy and security features include the Android advanced protection mode API and theft protection with identity check.
• 🔑 The Credential Manager now supports a digital credentials API for ID verification and a new restore credentials API for device onboarding.
• 🧩 The privacy sandbox enables the use of third-party code in a dedicated SDK runtime process.
• ✨ Material 3 Expressive enhances UI usability and emotional connection, while Jetpack Compose adds support for autofill, autosizing text, and animations.
• 📚 Library updates include the new Navigation 3 library and Compose support for Camera X and Media 3, with continued KMP support for business logic sharing.

Chrome: AI-Powered Dev Tools and Web APIs

• 🧠 Gemini is now running on-device in Chrome DevTools, offering faster, private, and offline debugging capabilities.
• 💡 Developers can highlight code or DOM elements and ask Gemini for explanations or solutions directly within the browser.
• ✍️ A new prompt API makes it easy to integrate Gemini for content rewriting, summarization, or answering questions within products.
• 📄 The summarizer API provides real-time summaries of web page content.
• 🎨 Native select dropdowns are now fully customizable, allowing styling of fonts, colors, and hover states.

Flutter: Impeller, Layout Editor, and Dart Formatting

• 📈 The new layout editor in DevTools provides real-time UI updates and live property editing for Flutter applications.
• 🚀 Impeller, the new renderer, is now available across all supported Android devices, promising smoother animations and fewer graphical bugs.
• 🖋️ Code formatting in Dart has been improved with cleaner defaults, consistent styling, and better handling of commas and line breaks.