Modifiche del comportamento: app che hanno come target Android 17 o versioni successive

Come le release precedenti, Android 17 include modifiche al comportamento che potrebbero influire sulla tua app. Le seguenti modifiche al comportamento si applicano esclusivamente alle app che hanno come target Android 17 o versioni successive. Se la tua app ha come target Android 17 o versioni successive, devi modificarla per supportare questi comportamenti, ove applicabile.

Assicurati di esaminare anche l'elenco delle modifiche al comportamento che interessano tutte le app in esecuzione su Android 17, indipendentemente dal targetSdkVersion della tua app.

Funzionalità di base

Android 17 include le seguenti modifiche che modificano o espandono varie funzionalità di base del sistema Android.

Nuova implementazione senza blocchi di MessageQueue

Beginning with Android 17, apps targeting Android 17 or higher receive a new lock-free implementation of android.os.MessageQueue. The new implementation improves performance and reduces missed frames, but may break clients that reflect on MessageQueue private fields and methods.

For more information, including mitigation strategies, see MessageQueue behavior change guidance.

Accessibilità

Android 17 apporta le seguenti modifiche per migliorare l'accessibilità.

This feature introduces new AccessibilityEvent and TextAttribute APIs to enhance screen reader spoken feedback for CJKV language input. CJKV IME apps can now signal whether a text conversion candidate has been selected during text composition. Apps with edit fields can specify text change types when sending text changed accessibility events. For example, apps can specify that a text change occurred during text composition, or that a text change resulted from a commit. Doing this enables accessibility services such as screen readers to deliver more precise feedback based on the nature of the text modification.

App adoption

IME Apps: When setting composing text in edit fields, IMEs can use TextAttribute.Builder.setTextSuggestionSelected() to indicate whether a specific conversion candidate was selected.
Apps with Edit Fields: Apps that maintain a custom InputConnection can retrieve candidate selection data by calling TextAttribute.isTextSuggestionSelected(). These apps should then call AccessibilityEvent.setTextChangeTypes() when dispatching TYPE_VIEW_TEXT_CHANGED events. Apps targeting Android 17 that use the standard TextView will have this feature enabled by default. (That is, TextView will handle retrieving data from the IME and setting text change types when sending events to accessibility services).
Accessibility Services: Accessibility services that process TYPE_VIEW_TEXT_CHANGED events can call AccessibilityEvent.getTextChangeTypes() to identify the nature of the modification and adjust their feedback strategies accordingly.

Sicurezza

Android 17 apporta i seguenti miglioramenti alla sicurezza di dispositivi e app.

Sicurezza attività

In Android 17, the platform continues its shift toward a "secure-by-default" architecture, introducing a suite of enhancements designed to mitigate high-severity exploits such as phishing, interaction hijacking, and confused deputy attacks. This update requires developers to explicitly opt in to new security standards to maintain app compatibility and user protection.

Key impacts for developers include:

BAL hardening & improved opt-in: We are refining Background Activity Launch (BAL) restrictions by extending protections to IntentSender. Developers must migrate away from the legacy MODE_BACKGROUND_ACTIVITY_START_ALLOWED constant. Instead, you should adopt granular controls like MODE_BACKGROUND_ACTIVITY_START_ALLOW_IF_VISIBLE, which restricts activity starts to scenarios where the calling app is visible, significantly reducing the attack surface.
Adoption tools: Developers should utilize strict mode and updated lint checks to identify legacy patterns and ensure readiness for future target SDK requirements.

Protezioni localhost

To improve platform security and user privacy, Android 17 introduces a new install-time permission, USE_LOOPBACK_INTERFACE. This change restricts cross-app and cross-profile communication over the loopback interface (for example, 127.0.0.1 or ::1), which was previously implicitly allowed with the INTERNET permission. For apps targeting Android 17 or higher, the following rules apply:

Mutual consent required: cross-app and cross-profile communication is now blocked by default. For a connection to succeed, both the sending app and the receiving app must explicitly declare the USE_LOOPBACK_INTERFACE permission in their manifests.
Intra-app traffic exempt: Loopback communication within the same app (intra-app communication) remains unaffected and does not require this new permission.
Target SDK behavior:
- App targets Android 17 or higher: The permission must be explicitly requested. If it is missing, socket operations (such as TCP connect or UDP send) fail, typically returning an EPERM (operation not permitted) error.
- App targets API level 36 or lower: The permission is treated as a split permission on INTERNET. Apps targeting lower API levels are auto-granted this permission if they hold INTERNET.
Compatibility warning: If a receiving app updates its target to Android 17 but fails to request this permission, incoming connections from other apps are be rejected, even if the sending app targets a lower API level.

Attiva CT per impostazione predefinita

If an app targets Android 17 or higher, certificate transparency (CT) is enabled by default. (On Android 16, CT is available but apps had to opt in.)

Safer Native DCL—C

If your app targets Android 17 or higher, the Safer Dynamic Code Loading (DCL) protection introduced in Android 14 for DEX and JAR files now extends to native libraries.

All native files loaded using System.load() must be marked as read-only. Otherwise, the system throws UnsatisfiedLinkError.

We recommend that apps avoid dynamically loading code whenever possible, as doing so greatly increases the risk that an app can be compromised by code injection or code tampering.

Fattori di forma dei dispositivi

Android 17 include le seguenti modifiche per migliorare l'esperienza utente su una vasta gamma di dimensioni e fattori di forma dei dispositivi.

Modifiche all'API della piattaforma per ignorare i vincoli di orientamento, ridimensionamento e proporzioni su schermi di grandi dimensioni (sw>=600 dp)

We introduced Platform API changes in Android 16 to ignore orientation, aspect ratio, and resizability restrictions on large screens (sw >= 600dp) for apps targeting API level 36 or higher. Developers have the option to opt out of these changes with SDK 36, but this opt-out will no longer be available for apps that target Android 17 or higher.

For more information, see Restrictions on orientation and resizability are ignored.