Google OpalMini apps are useful. You might want to create a custom reminder for important events you miss in your calendar app, or you might want something that helps you complete tasks on time. It all depends on your own convenience. Opal launched a few months ago, and most developers are using it for prototyping applications or creating minimum viable products (MVPs).
However, Google Opal is basically Google’s push to make AI agents actually useful in the real world, not just flashy demos. The idea is simple: connect models to tools, data, and workflows so they can take real actions instead of just generating text. It’s less about chat and more about execution. If this works at scale, it moves AI from assistant mode to operator mode, which is where things start to get serious.
In this tutorial, we will guide you through using Opal to build a mini app with a dynamic, agentic workflow. You will learn how to access Opal, use the interface to create a mini app, review, and download the code.
By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to:
Plan your mini app
Use a dynamic agent to build your app
Let’s get started.
