I Just Vibe Coded a Markdown Editor With Google AI Studio ⭐

We live in a time of wonder and magic. I just used Google AI Studio to create a full-featured Markdown editor and it's alarmingly good.

This is a new feature of Google AI Studio, one of the approximately 17,000 announcements that the company made during the opening day of Google I/O 2026 yesterday. OK, that's a slight exaggeration, but we're still struggling to keep up with the tsunami of news that came out of Mountain View. And this was just one of many developer-focused announcements.

It was also important enough, to me, that I put it at the top of my rundown of new developer advances. And important enough, to me, that I immediately started experimenting with Google AI Studio, a web-based integrated developer environment (IDE) that uses generative AI to help developers prototype applications. And, now, create them as well.

Granted, what I've seen so far doesn't match what Google describes in its announcement post. According to the company, one can now use Google AI Studio to "build entire Android apps in minutes from just a prompt." Exciting, but this is supposed to be "native" apps, not just web apps.

"People want more on their mobile devices," Google explains. "They expect the beautiful and usable modern app design and capabilities that come with native Android user experiences, built with the Kotlin programming language using Jetpack Compose, the official and recommended toolkit for Android development. Native Android apps bring the reliability of offline support, continuous background services, and the deep integration of hardware sensors like GPS, Bluetooth, and NFC."

This was interesting timing for me. As part of my research--again, meaning nothing more than just "Googling, reading the web, and watching YouTube videos"--tied to future focus month topics that may or may not involve a new coding project, I have been investigating Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, the latter of which Google just crowned as the "standard for Android UI development." (For those curious about such things, Jetpack Compose, like the XAML used in .NET/WinUI development projects, is a declarative UI creation scheme. But unlike XAML/.NET--and like SwiftUI in the Apple Camp--Jetpack Compose uses the same language, in this case Kotlin, for UI and programming logic.)

Interesting timing, and exciting too: Starting from scratch with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose will require a lot of time and effort because so much of it is so new (to me) and because it's evolving rapidly this year with Google shifting Android to include a desktop mode for a coming generation of Googlebook laptops.

The way Google describes it, you can just use AI Studio to describe the app you want and it will display the results in an "embedded Android Emulator directly in your browser." Plus, you can also connect an Android phone to the computer over USB and then install the app you (cough, Gemini) just created. And then, if you like, you can even publish that app to Google Play and/or...