Leverage Android skills and Gemma 4 in Android Studio Quail 4

Posted by Amman Fasil Asfaw, Product Manager, Android Studio Android Studio Quail 4 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This is the final stable release for Android Studio Quail. The new features in Android Studio enable you to build premium apps with AI efficiently and effectively.

Check out the video below to see the most helpful new features from the last 4 releases that can help improve and speed up your development. Here is a deep dive into what’s new in Android Studio Quail 4: Android skills bundled into Android Studio While LLMs are incredibly capable at generic coding queries, they frequently write incorrect or outdated code when confronted with rapidly evolving Android APIs, platform-specific migrations, or complex configuration structures.To solve this, we bundle Android skills that have been curated by the team who builds Android, directly into Android Studio. Following the open-standard agent skills specification, these are modular, AI-optimized instructions designed specifically to guide LLMs through complex Android workflows.

Android skills are now pre-loaded directly into the IDE, so you can start using them without having to manually download additional files. When you prompt the Android Studio agent, we analyze your prompt and search against the metadata for installed skills, automatically invoking them when they’re most relevant. Your agent gains instant domain expertise, applying Google’s best practices with less overhead spent on long, manual setup prompts.

Apple Watch Series 12 is coming next week, launching at the September event alongside Apple Watch Ultra 4. Here are three new features rumored for Apple Watch Series 12.

In his first memo to Apple employees as CEO today, John Ternus teased a "huge launch next week that’s going to be phenomenal." In a social media post today, Apple’s marketing chief Greg Joswiak teased that Apple has "more to say" on Wednesday, September 9, which is when the company will be holding its next special event, starting at 10 a.m. More to say September 9.

From remembering items in Find Hub to using Google Keep straight within Google Messages, here’s what’s coming this month. 5 new features coming to your phone with the September 2026 Android Drop.

Google also announced a new visual assistant for Gemini Live and Keep integration with Messages. A new Android Find Hub feature will help you remember where you put important things.

Apple Watch Series 12: Three new features coming next week. Read John Ternus’s full memo to Apple employees on his first day as CEO Chance Miller Sep 1 2026.

 https://t.co/q4hep7iDtq — Greg Joswiak (@gregjoz) September 1, 2026 During the event, Apple should unveil the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, its first-ever foldable iPhone, the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, and potentially AirPods 5. Of course, there could be other announcements and surprises too.

Gemini can now store item locations in Find Hub, while Gemini Live Guided Vision offers voice descriptions and reframing prompts for low-light or fine-print situations. Google Messages adds native Google Keep list sharing directly inside chats and also officially launches custom Chat Themes with matching text bubbles.

Will be providing live coverage of the event from Steve Jobs Theater. Tags: Apple Event, Greg Joswiak, John Ternus This article, " Apple Teases ‘Huge Launch’ Next Week " first appeared on com Discuss this article in our forums.

Just a day in September, Google has now announced the September 2026 Android Drop, bringing a bunch of new features across Google apps. A couple of these newly announced features have already rolled out to users in August, but Google is including them in the September 2026 Android Drop regardless.

Apple Teases ‘Huge Launch’ Next Week. Tags: Apple Event Guide, Greg Joswiak, John Ternus [ 37 comments ].

Find Hub remembered items via Gemini Google says that users on Android 16 and above devices will soon be able to ask Gemini to remember where they placed important items. Gemini will save the location for these items in Find Hub, so you can easily locate them later.