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APRIL 23, 2026 / Mobile
LiteRT is a production-ready framework designed to help mobile developers unlock the power of Neural Processing Units (NPUs), overcoming the performance and battery limitations of traditional CPU or GPU processing. By providing a unified API that abstracts away hardware complexities, it allows industry leaders like Google Meet and Epic Games to deploy sophisticated AI models for real-time video, animation, and speech recognition with significantly higher efficiency. The platform further supports developers through benchmarking tools and cross-platform compatibility, enabling seamless AI deployment across mobile devices, AI PCs, and industrial IoT hardware.
APRIL 17, 2026 / Mobile
A2UI v0.9 introduces a framework-agnostic standard designed to help AI agents generate real-time, tailored UI widgets using a company’s existing design system. This update simplifies the developer experience with a new Agent SDK for Python, a shared web-core library, and official support for renderers like React, Flutter, and Angular. By decoupling UI intent from specific platforms, the release enables seamless, low-latency streaming of generative interfaces across web and mobile applications. Integrating with broader ecosystems like AG2 and Vercel, A2UI v0.9 aims to move generative UI from experimental demos to production-ready digital products.
APRIL 15, 2026 / Pay
Google has introduced enhancements to the Google Pay API to provide developers with greater flexibility and control over merchant-initiated transactions (MIT). The update includes new objects within the PaymentDataRequest to specifically handle recurring subscriptions, deferred payments like hotel bookings, and automatic account reloads. By allowing merchants to clearly define future payment terms, these changes improve transparency for users and help reduce transaction declines through better token management. Developers can now implement these features to create more seamless and secure long-term payment experiences.
APRIL 2, 2026 / Mobile
Google DeepMind has launched Gemma 4, a family of state-of-the-art open models designed to enable multi-step planning and autonomous agentic workflows directly on-device. The release includes the Google AI Edge Gallery for experimenting with "Agent Skills" and the LiteRT-LM library, which offers a significant speed boost and structured output for developers. Available under an Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4 supports over 140 languages and is compatible with a wide range of hardware, including mobile devices, desktops, and IoT platforms like Raspberry Pi.
MARCH 24, 2026 / Mobile
The provided workflow streamlines motion-controlled game development by using Gemini Canvas to rapidly prototype mechanics like the MediaPipe Pose Landmarker through high-level prompting. Developers can refine these prototypes in Google AI Studio by optimizing for low-latency "lite" models and stable tracking points, such as shoulder landmarks, to ensure responsive gameplay. The process concludes by using Gemini Code Assist to refactor experimental code into a modular, production-ready application capable of supporting various multimodal inputs.
FEB. 26, 2026 / Mobile
Google has introduced FunctionGemma, a specialized 270M parameter model designed to bring efficient, action-oriented AI experiences directly to mobile devices through on-device function calling. By leveraging Google AI Edge and LiteRT-LM, the model enables complex tasks—such as managing calendars, controlling device hardware, or executing specific game logic in the "Tiny Garden" demo—to be performed entirely offline with high speed and low latency. Available for testing in the Google AI Edge Gallery app on both Android and iOS, FunctionGemma allows developers to move beyond simple text generation toward building responsive, "agentic" applications that interact seamlessly with the physical and digital world without relying on cloud processing.
JAN. 28, 2026 / Mobile
LiteRT, the evolution of TFLite, is now the universal framework for on-device AI. It delivers up to 1.4x faster GPU, new NPU support, and streamlined GenAI deployment for models like Gemma.
DEC. 15, 2025 / Mobile
A2UI is an open-source project for agent-driven, cross-platform, and generative UI. It provides a secure, declarative data format for agents to compose bespoke interfaces from a trusted component catalog, allowing for native styling and incremental updates. Designed for the multi-agent mesh (A2A), it offers a framework-agnostic solution to safely render remote agent UIs, with integrations in AG UI, Flutter's GenUI SDK, Opal, and Gemini Enterprise.
DEC. 8, 2025 / Mobile
LiteRT and MediaTek are announcing the new LiteRT NeuroPilot Accelerator. This is a ground-up successor for the TFLite NeuroPilot delegate, bringing seamless deployment experience, state-of-the-art LLM support, and advanced performance to millions of devices worldwide.
NOV. 24, 2025 / Mobile
LiteRT's new Qualcomm AI Engine Direct (QNN) Accelerator unlocks dedicated NPU power for on-device GenAI on Android. It offers a unified mobile deployment workflow, SOTA performance (up to 100x speedup over CPU), and full model delegation. This enables smooth, real-time AI experiences, with FastVLM-0.5B achieving over 11,000 tokens/sec prefill on Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 NPU.