{"id":251063,"date":"2026-05-21T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/android-17-catches-up-to-apple-with-a-long-overdue-cross-device-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:10:12","slug":"android-17-catches-up-to-apple-with-a-long-overdue-cross-device-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/android-17-catches-up-to-apple-with-a-long-overdue-cross-device-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 catches up to Apple with a long-overdue cross-device upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/apps-software\/android-os\/android-17-catches-up-to-apple-with-a-long-overdue-cross-device-upgrade\">Android 17 catches up to Apple with a long-overdue cross-device upgrade<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/apps-software\/android-os\/android-17-catches-up-to-apple-with-a-long-overdue-cross-device-upgrade\">https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/apps-software\/android-os\/android-17-catches-up-to-apple-with-a-long-overdue-cross-device-upgrade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 04:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidcentral.com\">www.androidcentral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-you-need-to-know-3\">What you need to know<\/h2>\n<ul id=\"elk-6d0265c0-8fac-483f-ad7e-75dd08c71767\">\n<li>Android 17 is finally bringing seamless app handoff to Android with a new feature called Continue On.<\/li>\n<li>Continue On can transfer app activity from a phone to a tablet almost instantly, including articles, notes, emails, and even specific webpages or documents.<\/li>\n<li>Google designed the system to work both ways eventually, but Android 17 is starting with phone-to-tablet handoff first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"elk-fb124f1c-696e-4a94-a419-5b1ef4eff386\">Google is finally giving Android users something Apple fans have bragged about for years: seamless app handoff between devices. With Android 17, Google is introducing a new feature called \u201cContinue On,\u201d and it\u2019s shaping up to be one of the platform\u2019s most practical upgrades in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a blog post that the framework, running on Android 17 (API Level 37), securely connects a \u201csending device,&#8221; where your activity originates, and a \u201creceiving device\u201d that pulls the exact state of that app. While the system is built to be completely bidirectional, Google is prioritizing mobile-to-tablet transitions right out of the gate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-fb124f1c-696e-4a94-a419-5b1ef4eff386-2\">So, if you are using an app on your phone, your tablet\u2019s taskbar will pop up a suggestion for that app. Tap it, and the app picks up right where you left off. For example, if you\u2019re reading an article, writing a note, or checking an email on your phone, your tablet can pick up that same task almost immediately. In supported cases, Android can even reopen the same webpage or document you were on.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand inline-flex items-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/c8t5znsqpd1648225513.svg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/c8t5znsqpd1648225513.svg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] max-h-12 w-auto\"\/><br \/>\n        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Later, Google has plans for a tablet-to-phone handoff, but it hasn&#8217;t released a timeline for that yet. Note that both devices need to support the feature, and the same app generally needs to be installed across devices for native handoff to work properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:58.50%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Continue On activity hand off between a phone and tablet\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/DaCnoadJeYeADhRYhMcYo8.gif\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/DaCnoadJeYeADhRYhMcYo8.gif\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] inline\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Google)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"smart-web-fallback-3\">Smart web fallback<\/h2>\n<p id=\"elk-4942aa57-dd87-4243-9cd1-85397d8aaf0f\">The system will also be getting fallback support from Google. If the receiving device doesn\u2019t have the app installed, Android may be able to continue the session&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/apps-software\/android-os\/android-17-catches-up-to-apple-with-a-long-overdue-cross-device-upgrade\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android 17 catches up to Apple with a long-overdue cross-device upgrade https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/apps-software\/android-os\/android-17-catches-up-to-apple-with-a-long-overdue-cross-device-upgrade Publish Date: 2026-05-21&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/jo8taQBWiBJSavYJ7qHMHN-1920-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-251063","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\/251063"}],"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=251063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251065,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251063\/revisions\/251065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}