Google Gemini is becoming more and more powerful and with Android 16 it will become the definitive assistant

Gemini for Android recently received something new that may have gone a little unnoticed, but is actually very useful. The Gemini application has in fact appeared in the list of applications with which you can share something, which means that if you are, for example, in the gallery, you can share a photo with Gemini in order to immediately ask it questions about this. Thanks to this simple change, it is much easier to invoke Gemini from other applications, whereas previously files could only be attached from the Gemini application itself and only after finding their exact location in the phone memory, which is not always the immediate case. However, at the same time, Gemini’s attachment feature also received a new feature: it is now possible to upload 10 files at once, in total, provided they have one of the following extensions:

– Text file: TXT
– Code : C, CPP, PY, JAVA, PHP, SQL et HTML
– Documents : DOC, DOCX, PDF, RTF, DOT, DOTX, HWP, HWPX, Google Docs
– Tableaux : CSV, TSV
– Feuilles de calcul : XLS, XLSX, Google Sheets

But the real novelty, which could make Gemini the king of AI assistants on smartphones, will only arrive with Android 16. Google is in fact working on a new set of APIs (for Android 16) which would allow system applications to perform actions for the user within other applications. These new APIs are designed specifically for the device’s assistant, namely Gemini, which can effectively be asked to do everything the Assistant already did, but also much more. After all, this is exactly the same thing ChatGPT would like to do next year, but Gemini, at least on Android, has the advantage of much deeper integration. In short, the path now seems clear, to the point that it is no longer a question of knowing if, but rather when.