{"id":612215,"date":"2026-04-17T04:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612215\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T04:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:51:13","slug":"android-17-easter-egg-arrives-in-the-final-beta-update-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612215\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 Easter egg arrives in the final beta update [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/android-17-easter-egg.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google has released Android 17 Beta 4, the last beta update ahead of the full release, and it introduces a fun new Easter egg that has a little connect-the-dots puzzle to start up a new animation.<\/p>\n<p>Finally updating the last Easter egg that debuted with Android 14, Google\u2019s new Easter egg in Android 17 opens up to a blank page showing a ring of diamond-shaped dots. You string these together in the world\u2019s quickest game of connect-the-dots, at which point the Android 17 logo appears and moves forward through space. <\/p>\n<p>Long-pressing on the logo starts vibrating the phone to mimic a rocket launch, at which point you\u2019re thrown back into the same space game <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2023\/07\/11\/android-14-easter-egg-minigame\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google has had hidden in the past few Android versions. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a huge change, but it\u2019s nice to finally see something new here.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>The game itself has been updated with new activities, additional codenames and planets too. If you\u2019ve been playing the actual game within the Easter egg, there\u2019s a lot of new stuff this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Android 17 logo is complete now, after <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/03\/27\/android-17-has-a-mysterious-easter-egg-thats-changing-with-each-new-beta-video\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"709702\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google quietly updated it in blog posts<\/a> about the update over the course of the past few months. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re digging into everything new in Android 17 Beta 4, so leave a comment if you see anything we haven\u2019t!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"460\" data-id=\"712101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260416-165318.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-712101\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"460\" data-id=\"712103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260416-165323.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-712103\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"460\" data-id=\"712102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260416-165331.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-712102\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"460\" data-id=\"712104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_20260416-165336.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-712104\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>More on Android 17:<\/p>\n<p>Follow Ben:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener 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