• 08 January 2026 Ultrahuman launches features 15% faster with Gemini in Android Studio Ultrahumanis a consumer health-tech startup that provides daily well-being insights to users based on biometric data from the company’s wearables, like theRING Airand theM1 LiveContinuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). • The Ultrahuman team leaned onGemini in Android Studio’scontextually aware tools to streamline and accelerate their development process. • Ultrahuman’s app is maintained by a lean team of just eight developers. • They prioritize building features that their users love, and have a backlog of bugs and needed performance improvements that take a lot of time. • The team needed to scale up their output of feature improvements, and also needed to handle their performance improvements, without increasing headcount. • One of their biggest opportunities was reducing the amount of time and effort for their backlog: every hour saved on maintenance could be reinvested into working on features for their users.
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- Ultrahuman, a consumer health‑tech startup, has reported a 15 % faster feature rollout after integrating Google’s Gemini AI tools into Android Studio. The eight‑person Android team used Gemini’s chat, code completion, and Agent Mode to prototype a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) GATT server in under an hour, optimize a custom open‑source library, and streamline crash‑log analysis. The AI‑assisted workflow also accelerated UI design with Jetpack Compose preview generation and helped implement a new in‑app AI assistant powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash. Overall, the team has reclaimed dozens of hours weekly, enabling quicker delivery of new features to beta users.
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