Android 17 stable is officially rolling out to Google Pixels, here’s what’s new!

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Months after Android 17 began beta testing, Google is finally ready to release Android 17 stable to the world. As Google announced in a blog post , Android 17 stable is rolling out now to Pixel 6 and later devices, along with the June 2026 Pixel Drop . Along with the stable release, the Android 17 source code will also be pushed to the Android Open Source Project shortly.

Platform-wide, Android 17 stable will include all changes that Google introduced with the Android 16 QPR releases for Pixels. This includes the more visibly different Material 3 Expressive changes, as well as new Live Updates-related changes that were missing from the first Android 16 release and were introduced with Android 16 QPR1 and beyond.

However, Pixel users have had these changes for months now. For them, the new changes are those Google announced and introduced in the Android 17 beta releases (as you’d expect).

Here are some of the bigger changes that are coming with Android 17, as highlighted by Google:

App Bubbles is Android 17’s new windowing feature that offers a new floating UI experience. The floating window sits on top of other apps, so you can quickly access and interact with the information within it.

Users can create an app bubble on their phone, foldable, or tablet by long-pressing an app icon on the launcher. On large screens, there is a bubble bar in the taskbar where users can organize, move between, and move bubbles to and from anchored points on the screen.

Google demoed Screen Reactions at the Android Show: I/O Edition 2026. This new Android feature makes it dead simple to create reaction videos without needing extra apps, multiple devices, or even a green screen.