Google announced that it will hold the Android Dev Summit again after many years, previewing the new features of Android 18 in advance

Google announced that it will host the Android Dev Summit developer conference again after many years.

Android 18 is ready to appear, and this time it’s not a leak, but Google itself publicly naming it. Google announced that it will re-host the Android Dev Summit developer conference after many years. The name "Android 18" appeared directly on the official agenda, and it also announced in advance that it will bring "powerful new graphics features." It also made the outside world look forward to whether more new system details will be exposed at the end of October.

Google recently announced that the Android Dev Summit will return from October 28 to 29, 2026 (US time), at the Google Bay View Event Center in Mountain View, California, USA. This is also the second time that Google will hold a large-scale event focusing on Android developers after 2022.

The event lasts for two days and is a physical event only open to specific Android developers. However, ordinary users will not miss it completely. Google will broadcast the keynote speech simultaneously.

The focus of most attention this time is that Android 18 officially appears on Google’s official event agenda. One of the agendas is titled "Using Jetpack Compose and the latest graphics features of Android 18 to create better applications", which means that Google has released some of the key features of Android 18 in advance.

Google stated in the agenda introduction that it will demonstrate the latest graphics features of Jetpack Compose, including visual effects such as grid gradients and progressive blur. It will also introduce the "powerful new graphics features" of Android 18 and explain how to improve the performance of graphics functions without sacrificing battery life and screen update rate.

Although these contents sound biased towards developer technology, in the end they will actually be reflected in the daily experience of ordinary users, such as whether the app animation can be smoother, whether the interface special effects can be more detailed, and whether the battery life and performance can be taken into account after adding more gorgeous visual effects.

In addition to Android 18, judging from the agenda announced by this Android Dev Summit, AI and Android XR also account for a considerable amount of space.

For reference, the first Beta version of Android 17 was launched in February this year. Now Android 18 has appeared in advance on the official event agenda at the end of October, which has also attracted attention from the outside world as to whether Google will take advantage of the Android Dev Summit to further reveal more new-generation system information.