Google presented the first beta version of the open mobile platform Android 17. To evaluate the new capabilities of the platform proposed the program pre-testing. Firmware builds prepared for various Pixel devices. The release of Android 17 is scheduled for the second quarter of 2026.
Among the changes in Android 17 Beta 1:
- Continued development of the platform for devices with large screens, such as tablets, laptops, desktop systems, and smartphones with folding screens. Removed previously existing options to disable new behavior on devices with screens wider than 600 pixels (dp), associated with ignoring some APIs for controlling screen resizing and orientation (screenOrientation, resizeableActivity, [min|max]AspectRatio), as well as adaptive placement of applications in windows that can be resized and moved around the screen.
- A new implementation of the message queue has been proposed android.os.MessageQueue, working without blocking. The new implementation improves performance and reduces frame loss.
- The Android Runtime (ART) implements a generative garbage collector (Generation Concurrent Mark-Compact Garbage Collector), which uses separate processing of “old” and “young” objects, which increases the efficiency of cleaning up recently created objects with a short lifetime. Using a generative garbage collector reduces the risk of stalls during resource allocation and reduces CPU load, which improves energy efficiency.
- Apps claiming to support Android 17 and later are prohibited from changing the values of fields marked “static final”, allowing for more aggressive runtime performance optimizations.
- To reduce memory consumption, the size of custom notification layouts is limited (notification view).
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