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MAY 19, 2026 / Cloud
Google announced the transition from assistive AI to independent agents, highlighting the launch of the Gemini 3.5 series and major updates to its Antigravity agent-first development platform. For mobile developers, the post introduces new Android CLI tools, the Android Bench evaluation leaderboard, and an automated Migration agent designed to rapidly convert various frameworks into native Kotlin code. Web development is also being transformed through Chrome DevTools for agents, the HTML-in-Canvas API, and the proposal of WebMCP, an open web standard that enables browser-based AI agents to execute complex tasks.
MAY 19, 2026 / Mobile
The Google AI Edge Gallery app has expanded its on-device AI capabilities by introducing experimental support for the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) on Android, allowing Gemma 4 to coordinate complex tasks across external data sources like Google Workspace and Google Maps. To enable more proactive and persistent user interactions, the update adds a "Schedule Notification" skill for automating routines and a persistent chat history feature that restores long session contexts nearly instantly. Driven by an open-source toolkit, the platform encourages community developers to build and share custom utility-focused workflows, prompt configurations, and tool integrations via its GitHub repository.
APRIL 2, 2026 / Web
Google has updated its account settings to allow U.S. users to change their @gmail.com usernames while keeping all existing account data and inboxes intact. For developers, this means that while old email addresses will remain active as aliases, apps that rely solely on email addresses for identification may face issues with account duplication or lost access. To ensure a seamless user experience, Google recommends migrating to the "subject ID" as the primary user identifier and allowing users to manually update their contact information within app settings.
MARCH 25, 2026 / AI
To bridge the gap between static model knowledge and rapidly evolving software practices, Google DeepMind developed a "Gemini API developer skill" that provides agents with live documentation and SDK guidance. Evaluation results show a massive performance boost, with the gemini-3.1-pro-preview model jumping from a 28.2% to a 96.6% success rate when equipped with the skill. This lightweight approach demonstrates how giving models strong reasoning capabilities and access to a "source of truth" can effectively eliminate outdated coding patterns.
MARCH 17, 2026 / Cloud
When you’re prototyping locally with AI agents like Gemini CLI, Claude Code, or your own agent, thei...
FEB. 27, 2026 / AI
Agent Development Kit (ADK) now supports a robust ecosystem of third-party tools and integrations. Connect your agents to GitHub, Notion, Hugging Face, and more to build capable, real-world applications.
FEB. 11, 2026 / AI
To simplify the user experience and prevent startup failures, the Gemini CLI has introduced structured extension settings that eliminate the need for manual environment variable configuration. This update enables extensions to automatically prompt users for required details during installation and securely stores sensitive information, such as API keys, directly in the system keychain. Users can now easily manage and override these configurations globally or per project using the new Gemini extensions config command.
NOV. 20, 2025 / AI
Introducing Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform for orchestrating code. It combines an AI-powered Editor View with a Manager Surface to deploy agents that autonomously plan, execute, and verify complex tasks across your editor, terminal, and browser. Agents communicate progress via Artifacts (screenshots, recordings) for easy verification. Available now in public preview.
NOV. 13, 2025 / AI
Google Colab has launched an official VS Code extension, bridging the gap between the popular code editor and the AI/ML platform. The extension combines VS Code's powerful development environment with Colab's seamless access to high-powered runtimes (GPUs/TPUs), allowing users to connect local notebooks to Colab. This aims to meet developers where they are and brings the best of both worlds.
SEPT. 25, 2025 / AI
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, now available to developers, is a state-of-the-art embodied reasoning model for robots. It excels in visual, spatial understanding, task planning, and progress estimation, allowing robots to perform complex, multi-step tasks.
