Google announced 'Continue On' for Android 17, allowing users to start tasks on their phone and continue on a tablet, similar to Apple's Handoff. The feature launches in RC1 and supports phone-to-tablet handoffs initially.
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At launch, Continue On will only allow you to move tasks from a phone to a tablet. | Image: Google </figcaption>
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<p class="has-text-align-none">Google is adding a new Android feature that resembles <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2014/6/2/5765528/apple-airdrop-now-shares-between-ios-and-os-x-devices">Apple's Handoff</a>, allowing you to start a task on your Android phone and continue it right where you left off from a compatible tablet. </p>
<p class="has-text-align-none">"Continue On" is designed to eventually be bidirectional, but <a href="https://developer.android.com/develop/better-together/continue-on">Google says</a> that at launch it will only support tasks moving from a smartphone to a tablet. Android tablet users will see the Continue On icon in the dock suggesting the most recently used app from their phone, assuming it's also installed on the tablet.</p>
<p class="has-text-align-none">It should allow Android users to directly open documents they were working on, or jump straight into the email they just had open. In some c …</p>
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# Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple’s Handoff
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‘Continue On’ lets you start tasks on your phone and pick them up elsewhere\.
‘Continue On’ lets you start tasks on your phone and pick them up elsewhere\.
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Google is adding a new Android feature that resembles[Apple’s Handoff](https://www.theverge.com/2014/6/2/5765528/apple-airdrop-now-shares-between-ios-and-os-x-devices), allowing you to start a task on your Android phone and continue it right where you left off from a compatible tablet\.
“Continue On” is designed to eventually be bidirectional, but[Google says](https://developer.android.com/develop/better-together/continue-on)that at launch it will only support tasks moving from a smartphone to a tablet\. Android tablet users will see the Continue On icon in the dock suggesting the most recently used app from their phone, assuming it’s also installed on the tablet\.
It should allow Android users to directly open documents they were working on, or jump straight into the email they just had open\. In some circumstances, it can open up the tablet’s browser to the best page to continue a task on the web instead\.
Google says that Continue On will be available to test in[Android 17](https://www.theverge.com/tech/928653/google-android-17-9-biggest-new-features-android-show-io)’s RC1 build, its first release candidate version, though hasn’t yet detailed when that will arrive\. It also didn’t say when tablet\-to\-mobile handoffs will be supported\. Together with last week’s announcement of[Android\-powered Googlebook laptops](https://www.theverge.com/tech/928479/google-googlebook-laptops-android-tease-aluminium-chromebook), it opens the door to wider Android interoperability that could finally match Apple’s impressive inter\-device coordination\.
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