Google's New Androidify App Turns You Into An Adorable Android Bot - Try It For Free

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The Androidify app lets you customize your ain Android bot.
• You tin usage a photograph aliases participate a matter prompt.
• There's an app and a browser type of nan tool.

If you're an Android die-hard, Google is giving you a nosy caller measurement to definitive your fandom.

For much than 15 years, a mini greenish robot (a.k.a. Bugdroid) has been nan charismatic mascot of nan Android operating system. Several versions of nan mascot person existed, pinch nan astir caller 3D type rolling retired successful 2023.

Google debuted a "Create Your Own Android Bot" instrumentality past twelvemonth that fto you dress up your ain bot pinch clothing and accessories, but it was limited. The institution has a caller instrumentality now, though, and it's thing but.

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The caller Androidify app lets you make your ain bot avatar, but it does truthful based connected your ain photograph aliases matter prompt, meaning it has an incredibly heavy level of customization.

Google says nan app uses a operation of devices to create your bot -- Gemini 2.5 Flash to caption nan photo, Imagen to make your civilization Android bot, and Veo 3 to animate your bot pinch different vibes.

I made my ain Androidify bot

I tried respective photos and quickly recovered really nosy it was to spot what nan output looked like. I had nan astir occurrence pinch a Halloween selfie from past twelvemonth wherever I was wearing a Ghostbusters jumpsuit and proton pack. My Android bot (green, of course) had his ain tan jumpsuit, proton pack, and moreover a type of nan "no-ghost" logo connected his sleeve.

The specifications weren't perfect, but nan wide vibe was very fun. I tried respective much unsocial photos, and each 1 came retired conscionable arsenic good.

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I wasn't rather capable to get nan aforesaid level of item from nan matter punctual nary matter really circumstantial I was, but nan punctual bots still captured nan emotion beautiful well.

Screenshot by Artie Beaty/ZDNET

How to make your ain Androidify bot

To make your ain bot, download nan Androidify app (you tin besides usage nan browser version).

You tin take betwixt utilizing a photograph arsenic nan ground for your bot aliases a matter punctual to picture what you want.

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If you spell nan photograph route, you tin either return a photograph aliases prime 1 from your gallery. Choosing from your assemblage is simply a spot much nosy because you tin take a photograph pinch accessories aliases a unsocial outfit, which nan app will replicate.

It's amended to take a photograph pinch 1 personification because you don't get to prime which 1 you want. If location are aggregate people, nan app will either prime 1 personification aliases create a unusual mashup of nan 2 people, for illustration it did pinch a photograph of maine and my girl (it took my hairsbreadth and facial hairsbreadth and slapped it connected a bot wearing her dress).

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Once you prime your photograph and pat "Transform," nan app gets to activity creating your bot. When your bot is done, you tin take from respective formats -- a ample telephone wallpaper, a banner, a sticker, aliases a 3:1 size that would service arsenic a societal media screen photo. From there, you'll take your inheritance from 1 of 15 choices.