Google’s July Play services update improves Google One purchases, adds Wear OS work profile support, and expands Android developer tools.

Google has announced that Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 is releasing today, which includes several fixes and improvements.

Android 17 could fix laggy voice and video calls by automatically using dedicated 5G network slices on supported carriers and apps.

Open-source Java projects advance Jakarta EE compatibility, persistence capabilities, and developer tooling as enterprise teams prepare for the next generation of Java applications.

The update adds Java 26 support for Kotlin/JVM, enables incremental compilation by default for Kotlin/Wasm, and expands Kotlin's ability to target modern web and native platforms.