Joe Maring / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Android 17 Beta 2 is now available for installation on Pixel 6 and newer phones.
- Google’s first Android 17 Beta arrived earlier this month, on February 3.
- Android 17 should hit Platform Stability sometime in March.
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Just like before, Android 17 is supported on the Pixel 6 and newer handsets, as well as Google’s foldables and the Pixel Tablet.
What’s new in Beta 2 that Google already has ready to show off? Well, for starters there’s the EyeDropper API, a system for letting apps do color-matching on screen content without problematic privacy concerns. We first caught wind of EyeDroppper last fall, but we weren’t able to get it working at the time.
We’ve also got a new “Bubbles” windowing mode that looks perfect for larger Android screens, like we increasingly work with on foldables:
Google confirms the arrival of the new Android 17 Contacts Picker that we’ve been expecting after taking an early peek back in November.
There’s a lot more under-the-hood stuff that Google mentions, like improvements to touchpad support and better time zone handling, but we’re going to want to get this new build installed on our own Pixel phones and start digging through it ourselves in the hopes of spotting some more impactful updates.
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