Gemini Live within the standalone Gemini app on smartphones is an easy-to-use conversational AI assistant with natural-sounding spoken dialogue capabilities. It allows users to directly talk to the AI assistant without the need to type out queries.

Google is streamlining the Gemini Live app by adding simpler pause and resume chat controls directly to the persistent notification.

A new APK teardown reveals that Google is working on reducing the number of steps needed to pause or continue a chat with Gemini.

Even back when Gemini was simply called Bard, we had the notion that Google Assistant was on life support. Now that Google has massaged Gemini into Android’s very core, we know that it will sunset Assistant sooner or later. Well, Android 16 might make Gemini much more of an assistant than Google Assistant.

Android 16 might introduce a new API allowing Gemini to control apps directly, such as booking flights or ordering food. Recent developer docs in Android 16 DP1 suggest a new method of app functions integrated into system features.