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  • Re: Android 17

    From Arno Welzel@3:633/10 to All on Friday, July 17, 2026 11:43:55
    Andy Burns, 2026-07-17 09:30:

    Apparently android17 is so insignificant that it's been rolled inside
    the latest pixel feature pack (which itself is pretty insignificant).

    Here on a Pixel 6a Android 17 was updated the same way as Android 16. So
    what means "inside pixel feature pack"?


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  • From s|b@3:633/10 to All on Friday, July 17, 2026 13:57:18
    On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:30:40 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

    Apparently android17 is so insignificant that it's been rolled inside
    the latest pixel feature pack (which itself is pretty insignificant).

    It was rolled out on June 17 on my Pixel 6 and 10. It was a pretty big
    update, but for me not many useful things.

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  • From Arno Welzel@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, July 21, 2026 16:17:42
    Andy Burns, 2026-07-17 13:56:

    Arno Welzel wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Apparently android17 is so insignificant that it's been rolled inside
    the latest pixel feature pack (which itself is pretty insignificant).

    Here on a Pixel 6a Android 17 was updated the same way as Android 16. So
    what means "inside pixel feature pack"?

    It means I installed the June(?) pixel feature drop as an OTA (1.4GB I think) and there wasn't a separate android17 OTA, normally a feature
    drop doesn't increment the major version number, but this one did.

    Well - it was announced as a system update in the same way as Android
    16. How does a "feature drop" look like?


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