All the news from the Google I/O 2026 Developer keynote

Source: Google Developers Blog

# May 19, 2026  

We've transitioned from AI that simply assists you to agents that can independently navigate complex tasks across your entire workflow. This year at I/O, we announced our **[Gemini 3.5 series of models](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/)** and upgraded **[Antigravity](https://antigravity.google/)**, our agent‑first development platform, with new capabilities to orchestrate and build agents. We also showed how we’re making it easier than ever for agents to help you build modern, performant Android and web apps with all‑new tools and skills.

We’re bringing the models, infrastructure, and platforms together across Google to help you build anything you can imagine.

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## Developer keynote recap  

### Orchestrating and building powerful agents
- **[Orchestrating agents](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/google-io-2026-developer-highlights)** – With Antigravity 2.0 and the all‑new Antigravity CLI, you now have two powerful surfaces for incredible productivity gains. Spin up specialized sub‑agents to tackle complex workflows, all protected by built‑in cross‑platform terminal sandboxing, credential masking, and hardened Git policies.  
- **[New Google AI Studio integrations](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/google-ai-studio-io-2026)** – **[Google AI Studio](https://aistudio.google.com/)** now includes native Kotlin support to “vibe” code Android apps. With Google Workspace integrations, one‑click deploy to Cloud Run, and support for Firebase services, you can build and launch full‑stack apps directly within AI Studio. You can also seamlessly export your complete project state to Google Antigravity.  
- **[Build managed agents with Gemini models](http://aistudio.google.com/managed-agents)** – Managed Agents in the Gemini API remove the friction of infrastructure setup, delivering the power of the Antigravity agent harness via managed agents. A single API call provides a fully provisioned agent with a remote sandbox.  
- **[Host your own Antigravity agent](https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity-sdk)** – The new Antigravity SDK gives you programmatic control over the Antigravity agent harness, so you can fully customize the agent and deploy it on your own infrastructure.

### Building high‑quality Android apps with agents
- **[Android CLI & skills](https://goo.gle/CLI_IO26)** – The stable Android CLI enables your AI agents to tap directly into the “heavy‑lifting” power of Android Studio. It can download the Android SDK, run your app on devices, and more, letting you create high‑quality Android apps using any agent, LLM, or tool of your choice. We also open‑sourced Android skills to help LLMs execute best practices for complex workflows and APIs (e.g., migrating to Jetpack Compose or Jetpack Navigation 3).  
- **[Android Bench](http://d.android.com/bench)** – Android Bench is our LLM leaderboard for Android development tasks. This week we added open‑weight models such as Gemma 4, so you can see how other LLMs measure up.  
- **[Migration agent](https://goo.gle/4u7jVPt)** – We previewed a new Android Studio feature that migrates your app code to a native Kotlin Android app, regardless of whether the source is React Native, a web framework, or iOS. The agent analyzes code and does the heavy lifting, turning migrations that would have taken weeks into just hours.

### Redefining web development in the agentic era
- **[WebMCP](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webmcp)** – WebMCP is a proposed open‑web standard that lets developers expose structured tools (JavaScript functions, HTML forms, etc.) so browser‑based AI agents can execute complex tasks with greater speed, reliability, and precision. The experimental origin trial starts in Chrome 149; Gemini support in Chrome is coming soon.  
- **[Modern Web Guidance](http://goo.gle/modern-web-guidance)** – Modern Web Guidance helps you build more performant, accessible, and secure web experiences by providing coding agents with a set of expert‑vetted skills. Launching in early preview, it supports over 100 use cases and integrates directly with **[Baseline](http://web.dev/baseline)**. Install it with a single click in Antigravity or via CLI:  

  ```bash
  npx modern-web-guidance install

• Chrome DevTools for agents – We’re bringing Chrome DevTools capabilities to AI agents, enabling real‑time verification, debugging, and optimization. Agents can automate quality audits, emulate user experiences, hand over sessions with auto‑connect, and more—without manual oversight.
• HTML‑in‑Canvas – The new HTML‑in‑Canvas API (available via origin trial) lets developers embed real DOM elements directly into a canvas with WebGL/WebGPU. This declarative API delivers immersive, 3D experiences that remain searchable, accessible, and interactable, offering app‑like performance while leveraging built‑in browser features.

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