{"id":254148,"date":"2026-05-20T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/android-17-is-finally-getting-seamless-app-handoff-between-your-devices\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T11:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:05:47","slug":"android-17-is-finally-getting-seamless-app-handoff-between-your-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/android-17-is-finally-getting-seamless-app-handoff-between-your-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 is finally getting seamless app handoff between your devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-is-finally-getting-seamless-app-handoff-between-your-devices\/\">Android 17 is finally getting seamless app handoff between your devices<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-is-finally-getting-seamless-app-handoff-between-your-devices\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-is-finally-getting-seamless-app-handoff-between-your-devices\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 11:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019re using your phone and then open your tablet, you\u2019ll see a taskbar suggestion to open the same app; selecting it will take you to the spot you left off on. <\/p>\n<p>In a post about Continue On, Google said that the feature works in both directions, so there\u2019s not just one main Android device ruling everything. Any Android device that has the feature will be able to send and receive app activities. <\/p>\n<p>As an example in its post, Google showed how a Google Doc that is on a phone can be opened on a tablet to the exact same tab. <\/p>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0Google<\/p>\n<p>Handoff also works from an app to the web. Using Gmail as an example this time, an email thread in the Gmail app on a phone opens to Gmail on the web on a tablet. <\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"825\" height=\"482\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gmail handing off from app to web\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gmail-web-handoff-anim.gif?q=70&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=825&#038;dpr=1\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gmail-web-handoff-anim.gif?q=70&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=825&#038;dpr=1\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/><br \/>\n        Credit:\u00a0Google<\/p>\n<p>Whether an app hands off to a web experience is the choice of the app developer, but it\u2019s also a fallback plan for when the device&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-is-finally-getting-seamless-app-handoff-between-your-devices\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android 17 is finally getting seamless app handoff between your devices https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-is-finally-getting-seamless-app-handoff-between-your-devices\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/continue-on-launcher.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-254148","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\/254148"}],"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=254148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254150,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254148\/revisions\/254150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}