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IT Home reported on November 13 that technology outlet Android Authority published a post yesterday (November 12) saying that a list of apps targeted for Google Gemini’s task automation feature had been exposed. The list contains 134 apps spanning food delivery, ride-hailing, shopping, travel, office work and other uses, but this does not mean all of these apps already support automated operations.
Citing the post, IT Home said that, as of November 12, the target app list in the stable version of Android 17 QPR2 contained 114 apps, while the Android Canary target app list covered an additional 20 apps beyond those 114.
In use, the feature lets Gemini do more than provide answers or links: it opens apps on a virtual screen and searches, selects products, adds items to a cart and performs other actions on the user’s behalf, then stops before checkout for the user to confirm payment. Tests reported in the article showed that Gemini could select meals on Indian food delivery platform Zomato and shop for milk through Blinkit; it refused to operate Swiggy and Zepto, which were not on the list.
Whether an app can be operated depends first on whether it is on a “whitelist” distributed by Google and whether its app signature matches. Inclusion is only a threshold, however: although office apps including Word, Excel, Outlook and Slack are on the list, tests found that Gemini still could not directly edit documents in Word or perform automated operations in Outlook.
As of the report’s publication, Google had not made the full list public or responded to the findings. Reddit, X, LINE and Shopee were also among the apps added to the beta list.