- Google has announced the date of the next Android Show
- It's being held on May 12 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6PM BST, which is 3am AEDT on May 13
- Google claims “this is going to be one of the biggest years for Android yet”
Android could be in for some big changes this year, and we’re about to hear about many of them, as Google has just confirmed that it’s holding ‘The Android Show: I/O Edition’ on May 12 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6PM BST, which is 3am on May 13 for those in Australia’s AEDT time zone.
You’ll be able to tune in live on YouTube, and if you head over to that link now, you can also enable a notification for when the event starts.
There aren’t too many clues about what we’ll see, but the video description says “this is going to be one of the biggest years for Android yet”, so it sounds like there could be some big Android 17-related announcements in store.
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Last year, for reference, the Android Show included a look at Google’s Material 3 Expressive interface redesign, along with Gemini Live, Gemini across new devices like watches and TVs, and new safety and security tools. While the focus was on software, we did see some phones too, but Google was just highlighting some recently released models, rather than anything truly new.
So, what could we see this year? Well, it’s likely that there will be some big announcements around AI — so perhaps some more Gemini features.
In fact, with OpenAI reportedly working on an agentic AI phone, we wouldn’t be surprised if Google has plans to more fully integrate AI into Android phones, so it can interact with all your apps and get more done, but that’s just speculation for now. That could certainly make this “one of the biggest years for Android yet,” though.
As far as things that there’s actually evidence of, though, we could see the following five major Android features announced on May…