Android reveals major design overhauls, new features and deeper AI integration with Gemini

File Photo: Android announced updates designed to enhance user experience, personalization and efficiency across its different platforms. |Picture source: Special arrangement

Android announced a set of design updates and new features on Tuesday (May 13, 2025) to enhance the user experience, personalization and efficiency of its different platforms. The announcements also highlight Google’s AI model Gemini’s deeper integration into the core Android experience and its wider ecosystem.

In a selected media briefing, the Product Director details the personalization of Android’s refocus. Users can expect updated color themes, more responsive interface components, and emphasis on layouts, not only on Android smartphones and tablets, but also to wear OS.

Key improvements include a sophisticated home screen grid for better organization, customizable quick settings for tailored access and a commitment to effective software updates that promise not to damage battery life. Additionally, Android will introduce “tiltable real-time updates” that allow users to easily track orders and directly access real-time information.

The company highlights the increasingly important role of Gemini in the Android experience. It demonstrates the capabilities of Gemini Live, mocking the upcoming demonstration of seamless integration with camera and screen sharing capabilities. This integration promises to provide a more interactive and intuitive user interface, allowing Gemini to understand and respond to visual contexts.

The company expands on the AI ​​front and announces the wide integration of Gemini into a variety of Android platforms. This includes bringing Gemini’s conversational AI to smartwatches, Android Auto, Google TV and the thriving Android XR platform. The move is designed to provide hands-free help to users to achieve tasks ranging from answering questions and retrieving information while driving or watching TV to navigating an immersive experience. The company also noted that Google has been in an ongoing collaboration with Samsung to bring Android XR to a wider audience.

These collective updates and integrations mark an important step for Android. The company is clearly focused on delivering a more personalized, efficient and secure user experience throughout its ecosystem to harness the power of AI to create more intuitive and useful interactions.