{"id":250179,"date":"2026-05-20T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/google-announces-android-17-handoff-feature-continue-on\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:00:11","slug":"google-announces-android-17-handoff-feature-continue-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/google-announces-android-17-handoff-feature-continue-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Announces Android 17 Handoff Feature Continue On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techadvisor.com\/article\/3144068\/google-announces-android-17-handoff-feature-continue-on.html\">Google Announces Android 17 Handoff Feature Continue On<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techadvisor.com\/article\/3144068\/google-announces-android-17-handoff-feature-continue-on.html\">https:\/\/www.techadvisor.com\/article\/3144068\/google-announces-android-17-handoff-feature-continue-on.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 05:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techadvisor.com\">www.techadvisor.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Summary created by Smart Answers AI<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"miso-summary-title\" id=\"in-summary\">In summary:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tech Advisor reports that Android 17 introduces \u2018Continue On\u2019, Google\u2019s answer to Apple\u2019s Handoff feature from 2014, enabling seamless task transfer between Android devices.<\/li>\n<li>The feature allows users to start activities like browsing Chrome or editing Google Docs on one device and continue on another using the same Google account.<\/li>\n<li>Continue On provides flexibility by transferring tasks from native apps to web interfaces when apps aren\u2019t installed on both devices, with Android 17 expected to launch in June or July.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google has revealed a handy new feature for Android 17 that works similarly to Apple\u2019s Handoff, allowing you to pick up where you left off between multiple Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed on Google\u2019s Android Developer website, Continue On lets you start a task on one device, and continue it seamlessly on another, just so long as they\u2019re both active on the same Google account.<\/p>\n<p>So, you might be browsing a website in Chrome on your Google Pixel 10 with Android 17. Pick up your Pixel Tablet (remember those?), and you\u2019ll note a Handoff Suggestion (yes, they really do seem to be using the \u2018Handoff\u2019 term) to the right of the tablet taskbar, containing the Chrome logo and a little phone silhouette icon.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the latter, and you\u2019ll jump straight into the exact same point of the article you were last at on your phone.<\/p>\n<p>The same seamless hop between devices is demonstrated in Google Docs, which really hints at the boost to productivity this Continue On feature could bring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCredit\">Google<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"continue-on-the-web\">Continue On the web<\/h2>\n<p>While it\u2019s designed to work between the same apps installed on both devices, it seems this new Continue On feature can be made to work with a web interface instead.<\/p>\n<p>The example given is that you might be checking an email in the Gmail app on your Android phone. Tap the Continue On prompt in the tablet, and it takes you to the web Gmail app&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techadvisor.com\/article\/3144068\/google-announces-android-17-handoff-feature-continue-on.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Announces Android 17 Handoff Feature Continue On https:\/\/www.techadvisor.com\/article\/3144068\/google-announces-android-17-handoff-feature-continue-on.html Publish Date: 2026-05-20 05:57:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.techadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Google-Pixel-9-Pro_review_6.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-250179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250183,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250179\/revisions\/250183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}