{"id":473607,"date":"2026-02-14T02:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473607\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:45:09","slug":"app-handoff-coming-to-android-17-for-cross-device-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473607\/","title":{"rendered":"App \u2018Handoff\u2019 coming to Android 17 for cross-device continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Android-17-3.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Besides what was detailed in <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2026\/02\/the-first-beta-of-android-17.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2019s blog post<\/a>, another new \u201ccross-device continuity\u201d feature coming to Android 17 is \u201cHandoff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/17\/features#handoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">describes<\/a> Handoff as a new user-facing feature that \u201cruns in the background\u201d and an API for developers. This will let you \u201cstart an app activity on one Android device and transition it to another Android device.\u201d Google will use the launcher and taskbar to surface available activities from your nearby devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Handoff can launch the \u201csame native Android app\u201d if it\u2019s \u201cinstalled and available on the receiving device.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this app-to-app flow, the user is deep-linked to the designated activity.<\/p>\n<p>Android 17 will also offer \u201capp-to-web Handoff\u201d as a fallback option.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>For developers, \u201cHandoff support is implemented on a per-activity basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To enable Handoff, call the setHandoffEnabled() method for the activity. Additional data may need to be passed along with the handoff so the recreated activity on the receiving device can restore appropriate state. Implement the onHandoffActivityRequested() callback to return a HandoffActivityData object which contains details that specify how Handoff should handle and recreate the activity on the receiving device.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not seeing anything live in Android 17 Beta 1. No other developer documentation or details appear to be available today, including what form factors this will be offered on. For example, the mentioned taskbar is just on foldables, tablets, and other large screen Android devices. You can imagine how such a continuity feature might work with desktop Android, like starting to compose an email on your phone and then finishing that on your laptop.<\/p>\n<p>More on Android 17:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764374954_669_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764374954_276_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benqurl.biz\/3WZyqpL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-704145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771037109_198_native-banner_750_150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"140\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Besides what was detailed in Google\u2019s blog post, another new \u201ccross-device continuity\u201d feature coming to Android 17 is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-473607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}