Newsletter - February 2025

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February 2025
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Google I/O is back
Join us May 20-21 for live streamed keynotes, sessions, and more. Register to stay current on updates and announcements.
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The First Beta of Android 16 is here
Developers and early adopters can now get the first beta version of Android 16. It features support for the future of app adaptivity, live updates, the advanced professional video format, and more.
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Product updates
Gemini 2.0 family expands: Flash, Flash-Lite and Pro
Announcing updates that make Gemini 2.0 available to more developers and applications: Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview, and Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, an update to our best model yet also available for developer testing.
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What's new in the pay plugin for Flutter
Enhance your Flutter payment flow. Explore new updates to the Flutter pay plugin, including the new Google Pay button, customizable payment buttons, and a more straightforward integration experience.
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Beyond the chatbot: Agentic AI with Gemma
Gemma now offers Agentic AI, designed to be proactive and autonomous. By interacting with search engines and specialized software, Agentic AI can access and utilize information beyond its inherent knowledge base.
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Launch of Google Home APIs
Now developers have the tools to build richer and more integrated smart home experiences. The public developer beta API launch is live for Android.
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Learning articles
Build LLM-powered chatbots
A series of articles by Google Developer Expert, Christian Liebel, shows you how to use LLMs to add a chatbot to your website or web application.
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Adding in-app purchases to your Flutter app
In this codelab, you’ll add in-app purchases to a Flutter app that are verified and managed using a Dart backend service.
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LLM evaluation course with Gemini
Develop techniques for building, optimizing, and scaling AI evaluators with minimal human input. This new no-cost course shows you how to build reliable evaluation pipelines for LLM applications.
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Developer community
Register for Google Cloud Next ’25
Join Google Cloud to hear about the latest AI innovations and product launches. You’ll love the demos and Learning Center Workshops to help you build better, faster, and smarter.
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Keeping Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe
Discover how we invested in fighting bad actors, protecting users, and giving developers more tools to safeguard their businesses.
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Android Studio’s 10 year anniversary
Android Studio provides you an IDE to develop, test, debug, and package Android apps. And it’s 10! Learn about our guiding principles and hear from the team about their favorite moments.
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