Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP | EP #167
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred sixty seven. I got my coffee, my old truck's ticking cool, and I'm ready right now to talk tech like we're leaning over a fence. Today we got Android, tunnels, some OpenJev thing, and writing with an LLM. I don't know all the fancy words, but I know when something feels useful. So let's ramble through it, nice and easy, no suits, no jargon, just plain shop talk. First up, Android seventeen is the first since three dot x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP. That means new hooks before public code drops. Eight…
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