Android Studio 2.2 has been unveiled, and it brings with it numerous changes, with Google saying the new version focuses on "speed, smarts, and Android… ...

Android Wear, TV, and Auto received a bit of attention — and each had their own breakout sessions and areas at the show — but a lot of the focus was on developer tools.

Google is previewing Firebase Studio, a cloud-based agentic development environment designed to build, test, deploy, and run AI applications.

Google will continue to offer Firebase's cloud-based synchronization service. It's a new step to making Google's tech foundation more compelling to programmers.

In some ways, we saw two different Googles on display at the company's I/O developer conference in Mountain View, which opened yesterday.