Google AI Studio is coming to mobile! Creating your own app has never been easier

Developing Android applications was, until recently, exclusively the domain of programmers. It required a powerful computer, installation of the Android Studio development environment, knowledge of Kotlin or Java, and hours of manual UI debugging. At the I/O 2026 conference, Google introduced a new feature that significantly shortens this process. Google AI Studio, previously known primarily as a web tool for experimenting with AI models, can now create a complete native Android application based on a user’s text description.

From prompt to app in a few minutes

In the Build tab, simply select “Build an Android app” and describe what the application should do. Based on the input, AI Studio will generate complete source code in Kotlin using the latest Jetpack Compose toolkit. This is an important detail – these are not experimental shortcuts, but the same technology that professional developers use for regular production.

Applications can work with common phone hardware sensors – GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, and others. Google expects that most people will use AI Studio to create personal utilities, simple social applications, or tools connected to their own hardware. The integrated Nano Banana model is used for automatic image generation within applications, so there’s no need to source graphics externally.

It should be added that Google is not alone in this area – it is entering a market already served by tools such as Cursor, Replit, Lovable, or Claude Code from Anthropic. Google’s competitive advantage is direct integration with the Android ecosystem.

Testing in the browser and directly on the Play Store

After generating the application, it can be tested immediately. AI Studio offers an integrated Android emulator directly in the browser, where the user can click through the created application just like on a real device. The second option is to install the application on your own phone using a USB cable via the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) tool, which is also built into the AI Studio interface.

For more advanced users, Google has also prepared the option to publish the application to Google Play’s internal testing track with a single click. All that’s needed is a Google Play Developer account, and the application will go through the standard process that developers otherwise handle manually in the Play Console. If the user wants to take the project further, it can be exported as a ZIP archive or directly to GitHub and opened in a full-fledged Android Studio.

However, one important limitation currently applies: the created applications are intended for personal use only. Google is still preparing the option to publish applications for family and friends, or the general public. Similarly, support for Firebase services – namely Firestore, Firebase Auth, or App Check – will arrive in the foreseeable future.

AI Studio will also arrive as a mobile application

To truly fit development into your pocket, Google is preparing the Google AI Studio mobile application for both Android and iOS. The application is designed to offer full functionality of the Build mode – meaning the ability to write prompts, iterate on code, and view a preview of the resulting application directly from your phone. The workspace synchronizes between the mobile and web versions, so a project started on the go can later be completed on a computer.

The mobile application can be pre-registered on Google Play starting today; it will arrive on the App Store later. The mobile version will also offer a gallery of ready-made applications, from which users can draw inspiration and remix any of them – meaning modify their code according to their own requirements.

Porting from iOS and other platforms

Concurrently with the new features in AI Studio, Google also introduced a new tool in the classic Android Studio called Migration Assistant. This tool can convert an existing application from the iOS platform, React Native framework, or web technologies directly into native Android. The assistant analyzes the structure of the original project, maps individual functions, and converts graphical assets including iOS storyboards or SVG files. The goal is to shorten a process that previously took weeks of manual rewriting to a matter of hours.

This entire set of tools confirms the direction Google is moving – the future of development is to lie in a combination of AI and traditional programming, where people describe what they want, and AI translates it into functional code. Google AI Studio is already available for free on the web today, and the first two applications can be deployed to Google Cloud without needing to enter a payment card.

Will you try creating your own Android application using AI?

Source: Google Blog