{"id":250844,"date":"2026-05-20T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/with-android-17-google-finally-adds-a-handoff-like-app-continuity-feature\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:45:11","slug":"with-android-17-google-finally-adds-a-handoff-like-app-continuity-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/with-android-17-google-finally-adds-a-handoff-like-app-continuity-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"With Android 17, Google Finally Adds a Handoff-Like App Continuity Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/android-17-google-io-finally-adds-handoff-like-app-continue-on-feature\">With Android 17, Google Finally Adds a Handoff-Like App Continuity Feature<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/android-17-google-io-finally-adds-handoff-like-app-continue-on-feature\">https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/android-17-google-io-finally-adds-handoff-like-app-continue-on-feature<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 16:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pcmag.com\">www.pcmag.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At its I\/O event on Tuesday, Google introduced a new Android 17 feature that lets users start a task on one device and continue it on another. In other words, it&#8217;s the Android version of Apple\u2019s Handoff, which was introduced with iOS 8 in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Google is calling its version \u201cContinue On,&#8221; which is currently available on the Android 17 beta. At launch, the feature will only support mobile-to-tablet device transitions, though it is designed to work bidirectionally, Google says.<\/p>\n<p>\n    (Credit: Google)\n<\/p>\n<p>The company hasn\u2019t specified which apps will support the feature, but it has invited developers to integrate it into their apps. Google shared video examples showing how Continue On will work in Google Docs and Google Chrome. Once a user initiates an activity in Chrome on their Android phone, they\u2019ll see a \u201cHandoff Suggestion\u201d to continue the same activity on their Android tablet if they switch devices.<\/p>\n<p>Google says Android 17 supports both app-to-app and app-to-web handoffs. Developers can choose their preferred task management platform on each device. For example, the Continue On feature can hand off a task from the Gmail app on a phone to the Gmail web experience on a tablet.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"font-stretch-ultra-condensed mb-2 text-lg font-semibold uppercase\">Recommended by Our Editors<\/h3>\n<p>The stable version of Android 17 is expected this summer.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"!m-0\">About Our Expert<\/h2>\n<p>                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-[60px] shrink-0 overflow-hidden rounded-full bg-gray-100 ring ring-white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/authors\/06secnx6VusubeWkWcdeLp9.fit_lim.size_100x100.v1719242165.jpg\" alt=\"Jibin Joseph\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Experience<\/p>\n<p>Jibin is a tech news writer based out of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/android-17-google-io-finally-adds-handoff-like-app-continue-on-feature\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Android 17, Google Finally Adds a Handoff-Like App Continuity Feature https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/android-17-google-io-finally-adds-handoff-like-app-continue-on-feature Publish Date: 2026-05-20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/articles\/0037CDErUy3bSHOsAfNxSq1-1.fit_lim.size_1200x630.v1779283347.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,146],"class_list":["post-250844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-lg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250844"}],"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=250844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250846,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250844\/revisions\/250846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}