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TL;DR Android 17 has been using a different logo for each Beta release.
Now by Beta 3, a swirl has slowly started to take shape.
Google managed to give the secret away, though, and we’ve already seen what’s likely the final Android 17 logo.
You ever get a little bummed out thinking about how Android today doesn’t feel quite as fun as it did a decade ago? Sure, we’ve still got Easter eggs, and while those dessert nicknames still exist internally, they’re far less prominent than they used to be. But lest you worry that Google was getting a little stodgy as the company gets ready to turn 30, it turns out that Android 17 has been dangling a fun little mystery under our noses this whole time.
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With each new release of Android, Google produces a new logo for it — almost like a mission patch. Here are the ones we had in Android 15 and Android 16:
And just as you’d expect, Google cooked up a new one for Android 17. But if you’ve been testing the Android 17 Beta releases so far, there’s a chance you might have picked up on something very, very subtle: It’s changing.
Over on the platform formally known as Twitter, developer Dylan Roussel shares an animation that draws our attention to how the logo has been evolving, up through our current Android 17 Beta 3:
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