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2026 will be a great year for Android. With Google giving the final touches for the final version of Android 17the system is being drawn as one in which all those small weaknesses that it once carried are being diluted. The last of them is “Continue On”, a function that separated – by far – iOS from Android, and which makes it quite clear that Google wanted to look askance at Apple to make its system what it always wanted.

What is this. One of the compelling reasons for betting on iOS and not Android, historically, has had to do with the “ecosystem.” And it’s true: if you use iPhone and Mac, it’s a real treat to have a universal clipboard. The tasks we start on one device can be continued on the other and, ultimately, you feel like you are using a single product.

Through its website for developers, Google has quietly announced Continue On. It is a feature that allows Android users to launch an app on one Android device and continue the activity on another Android.

So that. In its first phase of development, this function is mainly designed so that we can use an application on our Android mobile and continue using it on a tablet. Of course, it will be necessary to have the app installed on both devices with our account synchronized.

If you do not have the app installed, it is possible to open the task in the web browser. Being an API, the function in its initial stage will mainly work with Google apps, and developers will decide whether or not to implement it in their apps.

The year of iOSization. All operating systems draw from others. All you have to do is see how the customization benefits that iOS boasts have been on Android for years. However, 2026 is a year in which Google seems to have wanted to focus one by one on those aspects that worried Android users and that could make them opt for the rival system.

• Universal clipboard
• continuity function
• Agreement with Meta to finally put an end to the poor quality of Instagram uploads
• Universal Android Compatibility
• Less control over installation of external applications (APK) to improve security.
• Transparency effects as a design language
• Additional security measures

good times. Android has reached a point of maturity in which it practically only needed to refine some of the points that Google has touched on with Android 17. The problem of fragmentation It still seems unsolvable, but we have increasingly clear reasons to think that it is a round system.

The final version is yet to come, and it is more than likely that there will be small changes under the breech that we do not know about yet. The final version is expected to land on the Pixels starting in June. And from there, we will have to wait.

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