In Vinay’s latest newsletter, he asks a few of us #AndroidDev to predict what the future of Android development is going to look like.
Yours truly had this as one of the predictions:
AI everything 🙄 … On the product side, we’ll see more on-device AI, with smaller models like Gemini Flash/o3-mini running locally to provide operator-like intelligence directly on phones and this will probably be what most folks are geared towards doing for mobile development.
Looking at this Youtube video that’s now doing the rounds, I’m starting to feel ever so slightly validated.
Google (or Samsung) truly have their shot of gaining significant Mobile market share again, especially given how much Apple has been floundering in the AI space.
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They also have entirely diff approach to the compute power needed for all these services. Apple will likely continue to provide increasingly complex hardware to the forefront while pixel’s essentially not changed their processor for the last 3 generations but bumped up TPUs.
Agreed. It'll be fun to see which approach turns out to be more fruitful. But as a customer, eventually it has to just work and Apple is not winning in this department so far.
I dread this future where I have to pay a monthly subscription to unlock full feature set of my smartphone! After already spending big on the latest phone.