What’s new in Android 17? Design & UI Android 17 brings a major Material 3 Expressive makeover with richer wallpaper theming, blur effects, smoother animations, and cleaner system UI elements. The standout visual change is system-wide translucency pill shaped volume sliders, power menu panels, and Quick Settings tiles use a "frosted glass" effect, letting your wallpaper subtly show through and creating depth without distraction. Stock Android is also finally getting separate notification and quick settings panels like on iPhone. Most Android manufacturers already had this, but it's only now officially coming to stock Android. AI Features Gemini powered Magic Actions are coming to notifications, along with deeper, smarter system intelligence overall On device AI can now condense 50+ unread messages into private three-line digests summarising things like urgent Slack messages, approvals needed, and flight delays all processed locally on the device Android 1...
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