{"id":258702,"date":"2026-05-29T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/i-tried-the-android-17-beta-and-it-proved-google-needs-to-kill-its-annual-update-cycle\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:40:08","slug":"i-tried-the-android-17-beta-and-it-proved-google-needs-to-kill-its-annual-update-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/i-tried-the-android-17-beta-and-it-proved-google-needs-to-kill-its-annual-update-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried the Android 17 beta, and it proved Google needs to kill its annual update cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/app-bubbles-show-we-should-abandon-yearly-major-software-updates\/\">I tried the Android 17 beta, and it proved Google needs to kill its annual update cycle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/app-bubbles-show-we-should-abandon-yearly-major-software-updates\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/app-bubbles-show-we-should-abandon-yearly-major-software-updates\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 09:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I wasn&#8217;t surprised, nor was I disappointed. This is becoming a common occurrence, and it&#8217;s made me wonder whether Google should abandon annual updates altogether.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tAndroid 17 might finally fix the app problem holding Android tablets and foldabales back<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Google asked nicely, now it is less polite<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"app-bubbles-look-like-they-39-re-going-to-be-this-year-39-s-big-innovation\">\n                        App Bubbles look like they&#8217;re going to be this year&#8217;s big innovation<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>        <img width=\"825\" height=\"608\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"App bubbles in Android 17 beta 3\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/android-17-app-bubbles-1.jpg?q=70&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=825&#038;dpr=1\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/android-17-app-bubbles-1.jpg?q=70&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=825&#038;dpr=1\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/><br \/>\n        Credit:\u00a09to5Google<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already seen, one of this year&#8217;s big new Android features is &#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/app-bubbles-show-we-should-abandon-yearly-major-software-updates\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried the Android 17 beta, and it proved Google needs to kill its annual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/android-17-surrounded-by-floating-app-bubbles-with-social-media-icons-and-an-annual-update-message-on-a-purple-background.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-258702","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\/258702"}],"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=258702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258704,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258702\/revisions\/258704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}