Androidify: Turning selfies into a cute Android bot with AI

SPEAKER: We're reimagining the entire OS layer, putting Gemini right at the core of Android.

CHRISTOPHER KATSAROS: Hi, there. I'm Christopher from the Android team.

With more devs using AI and with Android being rebuilt with AI at its core, we thought, why not do the same with our lovable Android mascot, too?

Just like the operating system, the mascot has always been something you've loved to play around with and make your own.

Over the years, there's been lots of iterations of the Android bot, including a few years ago when we launched Androidify to let you make your own bot.

So we asked ourselves, how would we rebuild this experience today using AI?

And the answer, of course, was with a selfie.

It was a bit more complicated than that.

So I spoke with Avneet to tell us how the team used AI to translate that selfie into a bot.

Take a listen. AVNEET SINGH: We knew we wanted to use a selfie.

But how we go from a selfie to a bot was a fun challenge.

We decided that first, we had to validate that the image could work, and that it was of a person with enough detail to generate a bot.