The Android Show: I/O Edition (Android 17 Summary)
Content creation
- Screen Reactions let you record yourself and your screen at the same time, first rolling out to Pixel devices this summer.
- Instagram for Android now support large-screen devices (tablets) better, and will support Ultra HDR capture and playback, built-in video stabilisation, night sight integrations, and optimisations for capture-to-upload pipeline, ensuring the quality of the content remain sharp.
- Instagram's Edits can upscale your photos and videos with on-device AI, and is also capable of separating audio tracks for wind, noise, and music.
- Adobe Premere will arrive on Android later this summer, with hardware acceleration on Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
Bridge with iOS
- Quick Share's AirDrop compatibility is coming to more devices from Samsung, OPPO, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi and HONOR this year.
- Generate a QR code and share files across the cloud, full availability by next month for all devices.
- Quick Share will also make its way into some apps, starting from WhatsApp soon.
- Switch from iOS to Android more easily with the improved process, eSIM transfer is also supported.
- End-to-end encryption for RCS messages is enabled with Android on Google Messages and iOS 26.5.
Miscellaneous
- Pause Point gives users a 10-second breather to process whether you really want to proceed to use the distracting app (disabling it requires a phone restart).
- New emoji pack named Noto 3D to arrive on Pixel phones first later this year.
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