Google is launching its biometric coding app Opal in 15 more countries

Google is Expanding access to OPALartificial intelligence Atmosphere coding applicationto 15 other countries. The app, which lets you create mini web apps using text prompts, is now available in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Argentina and Pakistan.

“When we opened Opal to users in the US, we expected that they would be able to create simple, fun tools,” Megan Lee, senior product manager at Google Labs, said in a press conference. Blog post. “We didn’t expect the sophisticated, practical and highly creative Opal applications we got instead. The ingenuity of these early adopters made one thing clear: we need to get Opal into the hands of more creators globally.”

Opal works by prompting users to enter a description of the app they want to create, and the tool then uses various forms from Google to do so. Once the application is ready, users can open the editing panel to view and customize the visual workflow of inputs, outputs, and creation steps. They can click on any step to review or edit the claim, or add new steps manually using the Opal toolbar. Users can also publish their app to the web and share a link so others can test it using their Google accounts.

In addition to the expansion, Google also announced improvements coming to Opal.

The tech giant says it has improved the debugging software but has intentionally kept it codeless. Users can now run their workflow step-by-step in the visual editor or modify specific steps in the console. Errors appear right where they occur to provide immediate context and eliminate guesswork.

Google also says it has made significant improvements to Opal’s core performance. The company points out that previously it took up to five seconds or more to create a new opal. Now, it’s been sped up to make it easier to get started. Additionally, users can now run steps in parallel, allowing complex workflows with multiple steps to be executed simultaneously.

With the launch of Opal in the US in July, Google joined a growing list of competitors including Canva, Figma and Replit that are building tools to help non-technical users prototype apps without writing any code.