AI: Google AI clueless about Google’s Android

Google Gemini AI’s stupidity regarding its own capabilities and behavior on Android is infuriating. Someone texted me a screenshot of a dinner reservation. So I long-press the Android home button to enter AI mode, and ask it to add the event to my calendar.

Google Gemini AI on Android has no idea how it behaves on Android

Gemini AI Mode does OCR (optical character recognition) on the reservation image and flawlessly extracts the event info.
It creates a link with the event info as a data URL, but that just gets rendered as Markdown code, no link.
It presents the event info as a vCalendar .ics text record and tells me to copy it into Notepad for Windows or suggests it will appear as a desktop shortcut. We’re chatting on Android, ya brainless clanker!
I copy the ICS text, then share it to the Android Files app. But the Android team treat the whole concept of files as unworthy scum, and nothing happens.
It displays Download this ICS event, but again that’s just a heading, it’s not clickable.
- This calendar event file approach is probably doomed because only desktop Google Calendar can import a .ics file (because the Android team treat the whole concept of files as unworthy scum).
It suggests I go to the Gemini app (aren’t I in that already?!) and tell it to create the calendar event, dictating the details. Result: I cannot directly add events to your personal calendar because I do not have access to your Google account.
Over and over Gemini writes Here is a link to Google Calendar with a prefilled template or Click this Android intent link or Click to open in Android Google Calendar app, but it’s never a link or working button.
- Every time I complain that the text Gemini displayed is not a link, it dutifully apologizes… and presents me a different kind of link that isn’t a link. How can Gemini not know about its own limitations on Google’s own platform, one with 3.9 billion users?