It’s been a long wait this year since we did not have Developer Previews, but Google has finally released Android 17 Beta 1. This marks the first step towards the upcoming Android 17 platform update, if you don’t count the Canary release channel. Google has changed Android’s release timeline over the past years, so if you were wondering, here’s when the stable Android 17 release will arrive.
When is the stable Android 17 release date?
Google released the first Android 17 Beta on February 11, 2026. The company has confirmed a second Android 17 Beta for March 2026. This second beta will include the Platform Stability milestone, meaning it will include final SDK/NDK APIs and largely final app-facing behaviors, so app developers can exhaustively test their apps for the stable Android 17 release using this beta.