Building a Real Android App at Google I/O 2026: No Kotlin, Just Prompts (opens in new tab)

This is a submission for the I know what Step 1 of an Android project looks like. Download Android Studio. Wait for Gradle to finish thinking, which takes longer than it should. Configure an emulator. Scaffold a project. Notice the SDK isn't the right version. Fix the SDK. Scaffold again. At this point, you have not written a single line of feature code, and you have already spent the better part of an hour. At Google I/O 2026, Google shipped a feature in AI Studio that made me want to test w...