Google I/O 2026 is about for Might 19 and 20

We’ll quickly get a better take a look at a bunch of options and updates Google has deliberate for Android and its different providers. The corporate has confirmed that Google I/O 2026 will happen on Might 19 and 20. As at all times, Google will stream among the keynotes and classes at no cost, together with the opening keynote (throughout which the corporate makes the majority of its main I/O bulletins).

Though I/O is primarily a convention for builders, it’s sometimes the place we first find out about main upcoming Android modifications, which after all have an effect on tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Count on loads of information about Google’s AI efforts as nicely, comparable to what’s subsequent for Gemini.

As has been the case for several years, Google revealed the convention’s dates for 2026 after sufficient of us completed a puzzle on the I/O web site. This 12 months’s puzzle has a number of “builds” to play via, all of which use Gemini.

They begin with a mini-golf recreation during which a digital caddy that’s powered by Gemini gives among the most anodyne recommendation possible. The second construct is a nonogram. When you’ve ever performed a Picross recreation, you’ll know what to do right here. It’s about utilizing logic to position tiles on a grid in an effort to create a picture. Right here, Google is utilizing Gemini to generate “infinite recreation boards.”

The opposite three minigames are Phrase Wheel (which “leverages Gemini 3 to automate stage design”), Tremendous Sonicbot (which “makes use of Gemini to introduce microphone mechanics the place noise controls the Android Bot’s altitude”) and Stretchy Cat. The latter “makes use of Gemini 3 as a stage designer balancing recreation mechanics and issue to create infinite play.”