glanceable, color-coded notifications.

**Other enhancements:**

* **Granular audio routing for hearing devices:** Users with hearing devices can [now independently manage](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fandroid-17-beta-3-a-new-multitasking-experience-redesigned-v0-6op2fpnl2grg1.png%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D082745f23988500c117e753f50e07bd2ef8dee4d) where specific system sounds are played in Android 17. You can choose to route notifications, ringtones, and alarms to either a connected hearing aid or the device’s built-in speaker. This helps you avoid unwanted interruptions directly in your ears while maintaining a Bluetooth connection for hearing aid management apps.
* **Autonomous re-pairing for Bluetooth bond losses:** Android 17 introduces autonomous re-pairing, a system-level enhancement designed to automatically resolve Bluetooth bond loss. This occurs when two previously paired devices lose their cryptographic security keys, resulting in the devices no longer being able to securely authenticate and communicate with one another. The system now re-establishes lost bonds in the background without requiring the user to manually navigate to Settings to unpair and re-pair their peripheral.
* **Vendor-defined camera extensions:** Android 17 adds support for Vendor-defined camera extensions, allowing hardware partners to provide Android apps access to camera features like ‘Super Resolution’ or cutting-edge AI-driven enhancements.
* **Support for the RAW14 image format:** Android 17 introduces support for the RAW14 image format, the de-facto industry standard for high-end digital photography.
* **VVC support:** Android 17 adds platform support for the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard. This feature will be coming to devices with hardware decode support and capable drivers.

# 🤝 Making your apps and devices work better together

*tl;dr Android 17 seamlessly bridges your ecosystem by introducing the Continue On feature for effortless app handoffs between devices, unifying widget experiences to bring your favorite tools directly to Auto and Wear OS, and streamlining the pairing process for medical and fitness devices with new CompanionDeviceManager profiles.*

**Unifying the widgets experience across platforms**

Android 17 marks a shift towards a single, Compose-based development model for all widgets. By unifying the experience across mobile, cars, and Wear OS, developers can soon scale UI components across the ecosystem with a familiar workflow. The goal is to minimize the effort needed by developers to bring their widgets to more surfaces.

https://reddit.com/link/1u7l1cw/video/haep717hko7h1/player

Additionally, Android 17 introduces new platform functionality to make widgets work better on Auto. The update adds support for widgets on cars, allowing you to see the things that matter to you at a glance, even while actively navigating. For example, you can add a shortcut to your favorite contacts, a one-tap garage door opener, a weather overview and more. Widgets will be available to users of Android Auto later this year and to cars with Google built-in later on.

**Hand off your tasks with Continue On**

[Continue On](https://developer.android.com/develop/better-together/continue-on) is a new feature available in Android 17 that enables users to start an app on one device and then transition to another device in their Android ecosystem, continuing the journey they started. It’s designed to work bidirectionally, meaning that any supported Android device can both send and receive app activities, though, at launch, Continue On will first support mobile-to-tablet transitions. In the tablet taskbar, users will see a suggestion for the most recently opened app from their mobile device.

https://reddit.com/link/1u7l1cw/video/doxh917pko7h1/player

**Updates for companion device apps**

Android 17 introduces two new profiles to the CompanionDeviceManager API to simplify device distinction and permission handling. These include the medical device profile and the fitness