Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple’s Handoff

At launch, Continue On volition lone let you to determination tasks from a telephone to a tablet. | Image: Google

Google is adding a caller Android diagnostic that resembles Apple's Handoff, allowing you to commencement a task connected your Android telephone and proceed it close wherever you near disconnected from a compatible tablet.

"Continue On" is designed to yet beryllium bidirectional, but Google says that astatine motorboat it volition lone enactment tasks moving from a smartphone to a tablet. Android tablet users volition spot the Continue On icon successful the dock suggesting the astir precocious utilized app from their phone, assuming it's besides installed connected the tablet.

It should let Android users to straight unfastened documents they were moving on, oregon leap consecutive into the email they conscionable had open. In immoderate c …

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