Google is now rolling out Android 17 Beta 2 for Pixel

Lower than two weeks after the inaugural launch, Android 17 Beta 2 is already rolling out to Pixel gadgets.

Google is working on an accelerated timeline to already be on Beta 2.

Consumer Expertise & System UI

• Bubbles: Customers can now bubble any app by long-pressing launcher icons. On massive screens, a brand new bubble bar within the taskbar manages organized and anchored bubbles. Apps ought to comply with multi-window guidelines.
• EyeDropper API: A brand new system API permits apps to seize pixel colours from anyplace on the show with out requiring display screen seize permissions.
• Contacts Picker: The ACTION_PICK_CONTACTS intent gives a system-level picker. It grants momentary, session-based entry to particular fields, decreasing the necessity for full READ_CONTACTS permissions.
• Touchpad Pointer Seize: By default, captured touchpads now behave like mice, reporting relative motion and gestures as a substitute of uncooked finger coordinates. Legacy absolute mode stays obtainable through POINTER_CAPTURE_MODE_ABSOLUTE.
• Interactive Chooser: Apps can use getInitialRestingBounds on a ChooserSession to determine the ultimate UI place of the Chooser for higher structure changes.

Connectivity & Cross-System

• Cross-device Handoff: The brand new Handoff API allows state resumption throughout gadgets (e.g., cellphone to pill) through CompanionDeviceManager.
• Superior Ranging:
  • UWB DL-TDOA: Helps FiRA 4.0 for privacy-preserving indoor navigation.
  • Proximity Detection: Implements WiFi Alliance specs for improved WiFi-based ranging.
• Knowledge Plan Enhancements: Apps can question carrier-allocated downlink/uplink max charges for streaming utilizing getStreamingAppMaxDownlinkKbps and getStreamingAppMaxUplinkKbps.

Core Performance, Privateness & Efficiency

• Native Community Entry: Android 17 introduces the ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK permission (a part of the NEARBY_DEVICES group) to guard LAN communication.
• Time Zone Broadcast: A brand new intent, ACTION_TIMEZONE_OFFSET_CHANGED, triggers particularly on offset modifications like DST transitions.
• NPU Administration: Apps concentrating on Android 17 should declare the FEATURE_NEURAL_PROCESSING_UNIT {hardware} function to immediately entry the NPU.
• ICU 78: Up to date internationalization libraries assist Unicode 17.
• SMS OTP Safety: To stop hijacking, Android 17 delays programmatic entry to OTP messages by three hours for many apps. Builders ought to transition to SMS Retriever or SMS User Consent APIs.

Points mounted in Beta 2

• A platform stability regression in Android 16 that brought about lively apps to unexpectedly restart or refresh, stopping misplaced consumer progress and intermittent UI flickering throughout app utilization. (Issue #440017096)
• A UI structure regression within the Current Apps display screen for customers with German-language settings. (Issue #476830557, Issue #486511401)
• Improved video streaming reliability by enabling builders to verify temporal layering assist through getOutputFormat after encoder configuration to deal with lacking body dependency metadata. (Issue #306222291)
• A bug the place the Clock screensaver omitted the main zero in 24-hour format throughout low-light mode. (Issue #444255729)
• A difficulty the place closing a folder blocked rapid subsequent interactions like opening one other folder or switching screens. (Issue #470541347, Issue #471533397, Issue #477848604)
• A system crash and spontaneous reboot challenge that interrupted system utilization. (Issue #413562426)
• A essential system instability inflicting system freezes and reboots throughout app transitions or service calls. (Issue #419070024, Issue #428572458, Issue #430393241, Issue #424912278, Issue #431440391, Issue #426346396)
• A System UI impasse that brought about lock display screen unresponsiveness and show hangs after disconnecting from Android Auto. (Issue #457527675)
• A UI typo within the system location permission disclosure dialog the place the Again button was incorrectly displayed as ‘Bac’. (Issue #460242870, Issue #477245738)
• A difficulty the place Reside Translate and Guidelines had been incorrectly categorized within the System menu. (Issue #476754995)
• A essential System UI crash and subsequent system instability triggered by repeated navigation into Show and Contact settings. (Issue #474486679)
• A persistent crash that prevented customers from opening Wallpaper & model settings from the house display screen. (Issue #478520173)
• A UI structure challenge within the Wi-fi Debugging QR scanner the place the again arrow overlapped the QR icon. (Issue #474769647)
• A difficulty within the Sound settings the place ringtone previews didn’t play upon choice. (Issue #355086959, Issue #375840924, Issue #381007949, Issue #381077928, Issue #419301121, Issue #452646483, Issue #468837747)
• A bug that brought about redundant notifications to look following a system replace by enhancing the notification service logic to accurately clear stale alerts through the post-update initialization course of. (Issue #454647834)
• A GPU shader compiler optimization bug on Pixel 6 Professional that brought about particular GLSL mathematical expressions to guage incorrectly as constants, leading to visible rendering artifacts in apps. (Issue #473226715)

You may depart suggestions with the Android Beta Suggestions app on Pixel gadgets. Entry it from the drawer or Fast Settings to file bugs within the Google challenge tracker. There’s additionally the Android Beta group on Reddit.

• CP21.260206.011
• CP21.260206.011.A1 (Pixel 6 Professional, Pixel 6, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7 Professional, Pixel 7)

Android 17 Beta 2 system images can be found for the Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Professional, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Professional, Pixel 7a, Pixel Pill, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Professional, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Professional, Pixel 9 Professional XL, Pixel 9 Professional Fold, Pixel 9a, Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Professional, Pixel 10 Professional XL, and Pixel 10 Professional Fold, in addition to the Android Emulator.

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You may simply be part of through the Android Beta Program to get an on-device OTA.