Google is about to unleash Gemini Nano’s power for third-party Android apps

Generative AI technology is changing how we communicate and create content online. Many people ask AI chatbots like Google Gemini to perform tasks such as summarizing an article, proofreading an email, or rewriting a message. However, some people are wary of using these AI chatbots, especially when these tasks involve highly personal or sensitive information. To address these privacy concerns, Google offers Gemini Nano, a smaller, more optimized version of its AI model that runs directly on the device instead of on a cloud server. While access to Gemini Nano has so far been limited to a single device line and text-only input, Google will soon significantly expand its availability and introduce image input support.

Late last month, Google published the session list for I/O 2025, which includes a session titled, “Gemini Nano on Android: Building with on-device gen AI.” The session’s description states it will “introduce a new set of generative AI APIs that harness the power of Gemini Nano. These new APIs make it easy to implement use cases to summarize, proofread, and rewrite text, as well as to generate image descriptions.”