Android 16 includes a new API for “app functions,” which seems to allow developers to offer Gemini access to certain actions within its apps.
Google released the first Android 16 developer preview earlier this week and keen-eyed observers are already uncovering interesting tidbits, including one that hints about a much more useful future for Google’s AI assistant. In Android Authority, Mishaal Rahman writes about a mysterious new API in Android 16 called “app functions,” which appears to give Gemini Assistant agentic-like abilities to take action in apps.
With this function available to Gemini, you might be able to place an order with your neighborhood Thai restaurant without having to open the DoorDash app. Kinda neat. Apple’s working on a similar approach to a smarter assistant. One of its promises for the smarter Siri we’ll supposedly get in iOS 18 is that it will be able to take action in apps for you. By updating its app intents framework, Apple has created a way for developers to expose “order food”-type functions to Siri.
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