As the advances in the smartphone and artificial intelligence (AI) industries continue, Google has launched a new Androidify app, which allows you to create an Android Bot to your own likeness by simply uploading a photo of yourself.
Indeed, the tech behemoth has rolled out the open-source Androidify project powered by the Gemini API and other technologies, such as Jetpack Compose, CameraX, and Navigation 3, to create an Android Bot from a photo, according to an announcement on the Android Developers Blog from May 20.
Notably, to create the images, the app uses Gemini 2.5 Flash and a standard Imagen 3 image generator model, as well as the latest alpha release of the firm’s Material 3 Expressive design for icon and button shapes, a gradient color scheme, and transition animations.
That said, this is a sample app and you’ll need to compile it yourself on GitHub to use it – but if you’re able to do it, you’ll have tons of fun. At the same time, Google said that it’s also developing a fine-tuned model “trained specifically on all of the pieces that make the Android bot cute and fun,” and which it will launch later this summer.
How to turn yourself into Android Bot with Androidify
Still, compiling the app yourself isn’t that difficult if you have some technical know-how, and involves:
- Cloning the repository.
- Creating a Firebase project and generating a google-services.json file, replacing the current placeholder app/google-services.json file with your own JSON file created above, enabling Vertex AI SDK, and turning on AppCheck to prevent API abuse.
- Importing the Firebase Remote config settings from remote_config_defaults.xml.
- Optionally changing the font that the app renders with by placing in ~/gradlew/gradle.properties file: fontName=”Roboto Flex”
For Googlers, the GitHub project description for Androidify states that “you can get this info from go/androidify-api-setup.”
Elsewhere, in addition to presenting the new Androidify app at the Google I/O 2025 event, the company is also expected to officially announce the launch of the popular mobile news aggregator feature – Google Discover – on desktops, which has already appeared in Chrome browsers in certain regions.
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