Android 17 could take a page from Liquid Glass, and here’s a close lookA recent leak points to more blur in Android 17, and we've now got images to share.

Android 17 could take a page from Liquid Glass, and here’s a close look

TL;DR

• A recent leak suggests Android 17 could gain even more blur effects, and we’ve obtained images showing some of these new elements.
• The images show that the volume menu and pop-up volume slider could have blur effects.
• This comes a while after Android 16’s Material 3 Expressive update introduced some blur and transparency.

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Google already offers some subtle blur and translucency effects in Android 16, but a recent leak suggests the company could up the ante with Android 17. Now, we have obtained images showing Android 17’s increased blur effects.

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MysticLeaks on Telegram posted and then quickly deleted images apparently showing an internal build of Android 17. These images purportedly showed blur effects in almost every part of the UI. We weren’t able to view these screenshots at the time, but Telegram user @jspirit has obtained their own images of these translucency effects and shared them with us.

A recent leak points to more blur in Android 17, and we've now got images to share.Hadlee Simons2026-01-26T13:55:37.000Z{}