{"id":250247,"date":"2026-05-20T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/android-17-is-getting-its-own-version-of-apples-handoff\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:20:17","slug":"android-17-is-getting-its-own-version-of-apples-handoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/android-17-is-getting-its-own-version-of-apples-handoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple\u2019s Handoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/934457\/android-17-continue-on-handoff\">Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple\u2019s Handoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/934457\/android-17-continue-on-handoff\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/934457\/android-17-continue-on-handoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 07:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theverge.com\">www.theverge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google is adding a new Android feature that resembles Apple\u2019s Handoff, allowing you to start a task on your Android phone and continue it right where you left off from a compatible tablet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cContinue On\u201d is designed to eventually be bidirectional, but Google says that at launch it will only support tasks moving from a smartphone to a tablet. Android tablet users will see the Continue On icon in the dock suggesting the most recently used app from their phone, assuming it\u2019s also installed on the tablet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It should allow Android users to directly open documents they were working on, or jump straight into the email they just had open. In some circumstances, it can open up the tablet\u2019s browser to the best page to continue a task on the web instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google says that Continue On will be available to test in Android 17\u2019s RC1 build, its first release candidate version, though hasn\u2019t yet detailed when that will arrive. It also didn\u2019t say when tablet-to-mobile handoffs will be supported. Together with last week\u2019s announcement of Android-powered Googlebook laptops, it opens the door to wider Android interoperability that could finally match Apple\u2019s impressive inter-device coordination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/934457\/android-17-continue-on-handoff\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple\u2019s Handoff https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/934457\/android-17-continue-on-handoff Publish Date: 2026-05-20 07:07:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/continue-on-launcher.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C8.1151832460733%2C100%2C83.769633507853&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-250247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250247"}],"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=250247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250249,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250247\/revisions\/250249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}