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Android 17 is out, and here’s all the features! Hi Reddit! **Android 17 is here**, bringing a suite of new features aimed at improving your productivity, enhancing your gaming experience, giving you more control over your private data, making your device more personal, and much more. It's rolling out first to Pixel today, followed by other eligible Android devices throughout 2026. We are also making the source code available at the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) so developers can examine it for a deeper understanding of how Android works. You should look forward to more updates to Android 17 this year, with the beta program offering a peek at what's coming in the first quarterly release in Q3. Since we've been chatting with you about the Betas and Canaries for months, a lot of this might not sound brand new to those of you who have been closely following along. Even so, we wanted to take a moment to recap what's new in this release for everyday users. Let's dive in! https://preview.redd.it/ppuaci29ko7h1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebbea30b3bd69189754b2f90e9d4c86a8e2f865e # 📱 Enhancing your multitasking and large screen device experiences *tl;dr Android 17 supercharges your multitasking and productivity by allowing any app to run as a convenient floating Bubble, making apps more adaptive, and adding an interactive Picture-in-Picture mode for seamless desktop workflows.* **Multitask better with bubbles** From split-screen mode to desktop windowing, Android offers a variety of multitasking tools to help you be more productive. We’re extending these options with bubbles in Android 17!  In past releases, bubbles were limited to chat notifications, but in Android 17, they support more apps without any specific changes needed from developers. You can now launch any app in a floating window so you can view and interact with its content while using other apps. When you’re done, you can collapse or dismiss the window to return to what you were doing. A big benefit of bubbles is that you can easily switch between multiple running apps without keeping them on screen all the time. Bubbles are only open when you need them, saving you from having to manually resize, rearrange, or dismiss them to regain precious screen space. And on foldables, this benefit is even more pronounced thanks to the bubble bar, which keeps your bubbles pinned to the corner of the screen, putting them within easy reach of your fingers.    https://preview.redd.it/y08goo29ko7h1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=07cffc1eeee1beb6d36f230f3ae468eb64d63a5c Handy for travel, entertainment and work, bubbles lets you easily reference notes or maps, watch tutorials and even check sports.    **Ensuring that apps adapt to any screen and window size** On large screen devices, restrictions on orientation, resizability, and aspect ratio no longer apply, allowing apps to fill the entire display window without pillarboxing (black bars). This change applies to apps targeting Android 17 and is designed to make apps better meet user expectations on large screen devices. Because Android runs on not just phones but also tablets, foldables, cars, TVs, and desktop environments, we want developers to build apps that are adaptive to any screen size and orientation! **Better support for widgets on external displays** With Android 17, we’re working to improve the visual consistency of widgets shown on connected displays with different pixel densities. The update provides developers a way to supply the system with information that allows it to resolve the correct pixel values at rendering time. For apps that use legacy pixel-based APIs for padding, text size, or layout attributes, the system now automatically scales these values based on the density difference between the app’s original context and the target display. **Interactive Picture-in-Picture for Desktop** Android 17 introduces a new interactive Picture-in-Picture mode for desktop environments. This feature allows apps to request that their PiP windows remain fully interactive while staying

Android 17 is out, and here’s all the features! Hi Reddit! Android 17 is here, bringing a suite of new features aimed at improving your productivity, enhancing your gaming experience, giving you more control over your private data, making your device more personal, and much more. It's rolling out first to Pixel today, followed by other eligible Android devices throughout 2026. We are also making the source code available at the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) so developers can examine it for a deeper understanding of how Android works. You should look forward to more updates to Android 17 this year, with the beta program offering a peek at what's coming in the first quarterly release in Q3. Since we've been chatting with you about the Betas and Canaries for months, a lot of this might not sound brand new to those of you who have been closely following along. Even so, we wanted to take a moment to recap what's new in this release for everyday users. Let's dive in! https://preview.redd.it/ppuaci29ko7h1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebbea30b3bd69189754b2f90e9d4c86a8e2f865e # 📱 Enhancing your multitasking and large screen device experiences tl;dr Android 17 supercharges your multitasking and productivity by allowing any app to run as a convenient floating Bubble, making apps more adaptive, and adding an interactive Picture-in-Picture mode for seamless desktop workflows. Multitask better with bubbles From split-screen mode to desktop windowing, Android offers a variety of multitasking tools to help you be more productive. We’re extending these options with bubbles in Android 17!  In past releases, bubbles were limited to chat notifications, but in Android 17, they support more apps without any specific changes needed from developers. You can now launch any app in a floating window so you can view and interact with its content while using other apps. When you’re done, you can collapse or dismiss the window to return to what you were doing. A big benefit of bubbles is that you can easily switch between multiple running apps without keeping them on screen all the time. Bubbles are only open when you need them, saving you from having to manually resize, rearrange, or dismiss them to regain precious screen space. And on foldables, this benefit is even more pronounced thanks to the bubble bar, which keeps your bubbles pinned to the corner of the screen, putting them within easy reach of your fingers.    https://preview.redd.it/y08goo29ko7h1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=07cffc1eeee1beb6d36f230f3ae468eb64d63a5c Handy for travel, entertainment and work, bubbles lets you easily reference notes or maps, watch tutorials and even check sports.    Ensuring that apps adapt to any screen and window size On large screen devices, restrictions on orientation, resizability, and aspect ratio no longer apply, allowing apps to fill the entire display window without pillarboxing (black bars). This change applies to apps targeting Android 17 and is designed to make apps better meet user expectations on large screen devices. Because Android runs on not just phones but also tablets, foldables, cars, TVs, and desktop environments, we want developers to build apps that are adaptive to any screen size and orientation! Better support for widgets on external displays With Android 17, we’re working to improve the visual consistency of widgets shown on connected displays with different pixel densities. The update provides developers a way to supply the system with information that allows it to resolve the correct pixel values at rendering time. For apps that use legacy pixel-based APIs for padding, text size, or layout attributes, the system now automatically scales these values based on the density difference between the app’s original context and the target display. Interactive Picture-in-Picture for Desktop Android 17 introduces a new interactive Picture-in-Picture mode for desktop environments. This feature allows apps to request that their PiP windows remain fully interactive while staying

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Chipolo Loop tracker for Android Find Hub gets new color combos, available today https://9to5google.com/2026/06/16/chipolo-loop-android-find-hub-tracker-new-colors/ https://redd.it/1u7edvt @reddit_android

Daily Superthread (Jun 16 2026) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions! Note 1. You can search for previous daily threads. Note 2. Join our IRC and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. Please post your questions here. Feel free to use this thread for general questions/discussion as well. https://redd.it/1u7bj4x @reddit_android

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Gemini is failing at a basic task Android could do in 2014 https://www.howtogeek.com/gemini-is-failing-at-a-basic-android-task-my-phone-nailed-back-in-2014/ https://redd.it/1u6od30 @reddit_android

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What are some of the best apps made with an Android Tablet in mind? I'm going to be getting an android tablet soon, and I wanted to find out if there's any cool apps out there that work will with a tablet, please share your thoughts! thank you! https://redd.it/1u5g7oy @reddit_android

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New Android launcher focused on productivity and digital wellbeing — Retake Hey r/androidapps , I’m a new Android developer and I recently released my first app, Retake: Home Launcher. I built it because I was struggling with how automatic my phone use had become. I’d unlock my phone to do one simple thing, see a distracting app on my home screen, and lose an hour without really choosing to. I tried a few minimalist launchers, but a lot of them either felt too restrictive or made the phone annoying to use day-to-day, so I ended up uninstalling them. Retake is my attempt at a middle ground. It’s a minimalist launcher that automatically keeps distracting apps like social media, streaming apps, and games out of the experience, while keeping practical apps easy to access. The apps stay installed, but the goal is to add enough friction that opening them becomes difficult and more intentional rather than automatic. It’s still early, so I’d really appreciate honest feedback from Android users: Would this actually make you consider switching launchers? What would be missing for you? Does the concept feel useful or too restrictive? Are there any launcher features you would expect that I haven’t thought about? I don’t have a fixed roadmap yet, so feedback here would genuinely shape what I build next. Play Store: Retake: Home Launcher Thanks — happy to answer questions or take criticism. https://redd.it/1u609tz @reddit_android

Android's audio layer is actively ruining our music. I have always been the guy who laughs at audiophiles. To me, standard 128 kbps AAC or 192 kbps MP3 has always been perfectly fine for normal listening. Don't even get me started on thousand dollar cables or external amps. But I just had an experience that completely shattered my perspective, and it comes down to how shockingly bad Android's default audio processing is. I was listening to YT Music on my Motorola phone and noticed the mids were completely muffled. Turning on Dolby Surround helped slightly, but weirdly enough, disabling the Dolby app entirely cleared the mids right up. Even with the software processing stripped away, though, the highs still felt distorted and compressed... like there was a hard cutoff ceiling for quality. Out of curiosity, I plugged in an iFi Go Link DAC I had lying around. The audio got only slightly better, which I expected since modern phone DACs are usually fine anyway. Then came the real shocker. I downloaded the HiBy Music app, loaded a local copy of the same song, and enabled direct USB playback. This essentially bypasses the entire Android audio layer, pushing raw audio bits straight to the DAC. The difference was literally night and day. Suddenly, the music had this incredible energy, precision, and clarity. I could hear everything exactly as it was meant to be heard. I absolutely love it, but now I'm just frustrated. What is actually happening under the hood here? Why does bypassing the system audio make such a massive difference? More importantly, why can't I just plug in my headphones or a normal DAC and get this quality natively on streaming apps like YT Music without needing exclusive USB access? Is Android seriously still mangling audio after all these years, and is there any system wide workaround? https://redd.it/1u5u9c6 @reddit_android

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