Used them for a year on my old Galaxy S8+, no issues whatsoever. In fact, they worked so well, they made me consider a forage into other apple once again, after not using any for over 5 years. A lot of my friends with Androids use airpods as well, and they vastly seem to prefer them, considering that a good number of them went through a few other truly wireless in-ear headphones before settling on airpods.

What features are missing when using Android? I'm going to switch from Android to iPhone when the next generation comes out but was thinking about getting airpods before I get an iPhone. I was curious on what features require the iPhone. I think I am mostly interested in the auto pause when taking them out of your ear and the environment-aware noise cancelation

Imo, none of the missing features were crucial or dealbreakers. The ones off the top of my head:

1. Initial pairing by simply opening the case instead of doing it through bluetooth settings (only done once anyways). 2. To check the battery, you need to install a separate app. 3. Activating Siri through a button press on airpods. 4. Single airpod listening mode. 5. Automatic ear detection (according to the article I read, cannot remember whether that was the case back when I actually used it).

As for noise canceling controls and such, you might have to do some googling, because I only tested Android with original airpods, before pro version was available. But I have a few friends who bought pros for their Android phones specifically for noise canceling, so I assume it works fine.

works fine on my pixel 2. You can't 100% control the pods from your phone (only thing I know is you need to sync w/ a mac to change stuff like wifi name).