Vibe coding is coming to your phone

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“There’s an app for that” was the promise of the App Store from the very beginning. The app that will get your phone to do the thing you want it to? It’s just a few taps away. The tagline wasn’t strictly true — I’m still waiting for that one perfect grocery list app. Still, apps shaped the modern smartphone into what it is today. We spend all day, every day inside of apps — scrolling, listening, and tapping until we find what we want. But your next favorite app might just be one that you made yourself.

“万物皆有 App” 是 App Store 自诞生之初就许下的承诺。想要手机实现某个功能？只需轻点几下即可。虽然这句口号并不完全准确——我至今还在等待那款完美的购物清单 App——但不可否认，App 塑造了现代智能手机的形态。我们每天都在 App 中度过：滑动、聆听、点击，直到找到我们想要的内容。但你下一个最喜欢的 App，可能正是你自己亲手制作的。

If you weren’t familiar with the concept of “vibe coding” at the beginning of 2026, you probably are now. As AI coding tools have become better and more accessible, more and more non-developers are finding success creating apps that fulfill a niche need. Vibe coders are mostly working with desktop software, but signals from this Google I/O and beyond indicate that mobile will be the next frontier.

如果你在 2026 年初还不熟悉“Vibe coding”（氛围编程/直觉编程）这个概念，那么现在你一定有所耳闻。随着 AI 编程工具变得越来越强大且易于使用，越来越多的非开发者成功创建了满足特定需求的应用程序。目前，“Vibe coders”主要在桌面软件上进行创作，但从本次 Google I/O 大会及后续动向来看，移动端将成为下一个前沿阵地。

For starters, Google is making it easier to just straight up vibe-code a whole Android app. At I/O the company announced an update to its AI Studio vibe-coding tool, allowing you to create a native Android app and export it to a phone in a matter of minutes. The feature is limited to “personal utility” apps to start with, and the rules for putting an app on the Play Store remain the same. But if you’re the kind of person looking for a particular feature from a habit tracking app that none of them seem to offer, you might just be able to build it yourself.

首先，Google 正在降低直接通过“Vibe coding”开发完整 Android 应用的门槛。在 I/O 大会上，Google 宣布更新了其 AI Studio 编程工具，让你能在几分钟内创建一个原生 Android 应用并导出到手机上。该功能目前仅限于“个人实用工具”类应用，且上架 Play Store 的规则保持不变。但如果你一直在寻找某款习惯追踪 App 中缺失的特定功能，现在你或许可以亲手把它做出来。

If a whole app feels too ambitious, then maybe a widget is more your speed. At last week’s Android Show, Google announced an upcoming feature to create your own widgets with a prompt — Google’s examples include widgets that highlight certain weather metrics or suggest new recipes to try.

如果开发整个 App 显得野心太大，那么小组件（Widget）可能更适合你。在上周的 Android Show 上，Google 宣布了一项即将推出的功能：通过提示词（Prompt）创建自定义小组件。Google 给出的示例包括：突出显示特定天气指标的小组件，或是推荐新食谱的小组件。

These tools draw on Gemini’s knowledge base, so the possibilities are pretty wide open. Naturally it all depends on this feature actually, you know, working. But the idea of putting the very specific information I want where I want it on my phone is awfully compelling. Not to make too much out of some widgets, but stuff like this has kind of been the whole premise of personal computing for the past couple of decades. If it works as advertised — again, emphasis on if — it kind of unlocks a whole new level of personalization for your phone.

这些工具依托于 Gemini 的知识库，因此其可能性非常广阔。当然，这一切的前提是该功能确实能如预期般运作。但能够将我想要的特定信息放置在手机上我想要的位置，这个想法非常有吸引力。虽然这只是几个小组件，但类似的概念其实正是过去几十年个人计算的核心前提。如果它能如宣传的那样工作——再次强调，是“如果”——它将为你的手机解锁一个全新的个性化水平。

Google calls the AI-generated widgets a first step toward something called a “generative UI,” where your phone creates an interface and apps on the fly based on what you need in the moment. Sounds great in theory! But it also sounds like it could get messy fast. Android president Sameer Samat acknowledges that there’s a pretty obvious way to take the concept too far. “While I don’t think we want to wake up every morning and have our devices have different UI, I do think there’s a level of personalization and customization to the user that could be delightful,” he tells me.

Google 将这种 AI 生成的小组件称为迈向“生成式 UI”（Generative UI）的第一步，即手机根据你当下的需求，实时创建界面和应用程序。理论上听起来很棒！但这也可能很快变得混乱。Android 总裁 Sameer Samat 承认，这个概念很容易被过度使用。“虽然我不认为我们每天早上醒来都希望设备拥有完全不同的 UI，但我确实认为，某种程度上的个性化和定制化会给用户带来愉悦的体验，”他告诉我。

It seems like Apple might be taking steps toward a more personal iPhone, too. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the company is working on a way to create shortcuts based on prompts. Shortcuts are automations you can program within the dedicated Shortcuts app, either by putting them together from preassembled bits or figuring it out on your own. They seem simple in theory but get complicated fast, which has deterred me from ever seriously getting into shortcuts. But the prospect of prompting my way into a shortcut that opens the transit app when I get to the bus stop, or sets a particular focus mode when I connect to my home Wi-Fi, is pretty appealing.

苹果似乎也在朝着更个性化的 iPhone 迈进。据彭博社的 Mark Gurman 报道，苹果正在开发一种基于提示词创建快捷指令（Shortcuts）的方法。快捷指令是可以在专用 App 中编程的自动化操作，你可以通过组合预设模块或自行摸索来完成。它们理论上看起来很简单，但很快就会变得复杂，这让我一直没能认真深入使用。但如果能通过提示词直接创建一个快捷指令——比如当我到达公交车站时自动打开交通 App，或者当我连接到家庭 Wi-Fi 时自动开启特定的专注模式——这听起来非常有吸引力。

I’ve heard a lot of promises over the past few years from tech company execs about how AI will fundamentally change how we interact with mobile devices. So far, we have an upgraded voice assistant in Gemini, a Siri that will go ask ChatGPT for you, and… basically the same phones we’ve been using for the past decade. Being able to prompt an app, widget, or automation into existence isn’t exactly a platform shift, but it could actually help our phones become a little more personal.

过去几年里，我听过科技公司高管们许下的许多承诺，声称 AI 将从根本上改变我们与移动设备的交互方式。到目前为止，我们得到了升级版的语音助手 Gemini，一个会帮你去问 ChatGPT 的 Siri，以及……基本上还是我们过去十年一直在用的那些手机。能够通过提示词“召唤”出一个 App、小组件或自动化操作，虽然算不上平台级的变革，但它确实能让我们的手机变得更加个性化。