{"id":253709,"date":"2026-05-20T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/android-17-adds-seamless-device-switching-with-continue-on\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:15:24","slug":"android-17-adds-seamless-device-switching-with-continue-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/android-17-adds-seamless-device-switching-with-continue-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 adds seamless device switching with Continue On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-17-continue-on-3669055\/\">Android 17 adds seamless device switching with Continue On<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-17-continue-on-3669055\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-17-continue-on-3669055\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 03:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Maring \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google has introduced a new Android 17 feature called \u201cContinue On\u201d that lets users move apps between Android devices and continue where they left off.<\/li>\n<li>The feature will initially support phone-to-tablet handoffs, with app suggestions appearing directly in the tablet taskbar.<\/li>\n<li>Continue On is part of Google\u2019s broader push to improve Android\u2019s cross-device ecosystem and better compete with Apple\u2019s continuity features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google made a ton of new announcements at I\/O 2026, but\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px\">Gemini and its AI ambitions clearly overshadowed Android<\/span>. Still, on the sidelines of I\/O, Google announced an extremely useful and important new feature coming to Android 17.<\/p>\n<p>Called Continue On, the feature is designed to make moving your tasks between Android devices a whole lot smoother. It will let you start using an app on one Android device and then seamlessly continue the same work on another device.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_mg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_mg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The new capability was detailed in a developer blog post, and it\u2019s clearly part of Google\u2019s ongoing effort to improve Android\u2019s cross-device services across phones, tablets, and eventually other form factors.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_mg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" title=\"Android 17 continue on launcher\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Android-17-continue-on-launcher.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Android-17-continue-on-launcher-64w-40h.jpeg 64w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Android-17-continue-on-launcher-1000w-625h.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Android-17-continue-on-launcher-1728w-1080h.jpeg 1728w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Android-17-continue-on-launcher-1382w-864h.jpeg 1382w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Android-17-continue-on-launcher-608w-380h.jpeg 608w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Android-17-continue-on-launcher-675w-422h.jpeg 675w\" alt=\"Android 17 continue on launcher\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Android-17-continue-on-launcher.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At launch, Continue On will first support phone-to-tablet handoffs. That means if you\u2019re using an app on your Android phone and then pick up your tablet, Android will be able to suggest that same app directly in the tablet taskbar. Tapping the app will take you back to where you left off.<\/p>\n<p>Google says the feature works bidirectionally, meaning supported Android devices can both send and receive app sessions. So in the future, you could bounce between multiple Android devices without constantly reopening apps, hunting for tabs, or manually navigating back to the same screen.<\/p>\n<p>Google also shared some examples using Google Docs and Gmail. In one demo, a Google Docs document opened on a phone and continued on a tablet in the same tab and document state.<\/p>\n<p>In another example, Gmail&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-17-continue-on-3669055\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android 17 adds seamless device switching with Continue On https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-17-continue-on-3669055\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-20 03:41:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/android-17-logo-hero-pixel-10-pro-fold-1-watermark-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-253709","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\/253709"}],"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=253709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253711,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253709\/revisions\/253711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}