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TL;DR Google has introduced a new Android 17 feature called “Continue On” that lets users move apps between Android devices and continue where they left off.
The feature will initially support phone-to-tablet handoffs, with app suggestions appearing directly in the tablet taskbar.
Continue On is part of Google’s broader push to improve Android’s cross-device ecosystem and better compete with Apple’s continuity features.
Google made a ton of new announcements at I/O 2026, but Gemini and its AI ambitions clearly overshadowed Android. Still, on the sidelines of I/O, Google announced an extremely useful and important new feature coming to Android 17.
Called Continue On, the feature is designed to make moving your tasks between Android devices a whole lot smoother. It will let you start using an app on one Android device and then seamlessly continue the same work on another device.
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The new capability was detailed in a developer blog post, and it’s clearly part of Google’s ongoing effort to improve Android’s cross-device services across phones, tablets, and eventually other form factors.
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