Google Research Open-Sources the Coral NPU Platform to Help Build AI into Wearables and Edge Devices

Coral NPU is an open-source full-stack platform designed to help hardware engineers and AI developers overcome the limitations that prevent integrating AI in wearables and edge devices, including performance, fragmentation, and user trust.

Apple Previews SDK for Building Android Apps with Swift

The Swift SDK for Android, recently released as a nightly build, is designed to help developers to port their Swift packages to Android, making it easier to share code across platforms. While the SDK is still in preview, over 25% of packages in the Swift Package Index can already be compiled for Android.

Android GenAI Prompt API Enables Natural Language Requests with Gemini Nano

The ML Kit GenAI Prompt API, now available in alpha, enables Android developers to send natural language and multimodal requests to Gemini Nano running on-device, extending the text summarization and image description capabilities introduced with the initial GenAI release.

CameraX 1.5 Brings Advanced Video Recording and Image Capture to Android

CameraX 1.5 introduces support for capturing slow-motion and high frame-rate videos as well as unprocessed, uncompressed still images. These capabilities are enabled by the new SessionConfig API, which streamlines camera setup and configuration.

After Seven Years, Google Reinvents Android Navigation with Jetpack Navigation 3

Google has released the new Jetpack Navigation 3 library, which redesigns from the ground up notification handling in Android apps. The new library gives full control on the back stack and integrates seamlessly with Jetpack Compose’s state management.