Android Auto 12.9 is now available for drivers. It's an opportunity to update the app on your phone and start using new options, or at least be prepared for them to be enabled server-side.

I hope that with the rollout of Android Automotive 11, and hopefully 12, the abilities of this platform will continue to improve. And that developers will work harder to skin the system to suit ...

This program, announced at I/O 2024 last year, takes existing mobile apps that are large screen compatible and makes them available to cars running Android Automotive. We don’t know which apps ...

Google has confirmed that the Android Auto on phone screens experience will not be available on Android 12. It will be replaced by the Google Assistant driving mode. Android users on older ...

If you're an Android Automotive user (the actual vehicle infotainment OS, not Android Auto, which just projects your phone to your car's infotainment system running on another OS), you might ...

These days the dozen or so ECUs in an average car are joined by an infotainment ... Linux or more commonly these days some version of Android. As [Eric McDonald] discovered with his 2021 Honda ...

A self-contained OS, Android Automotive does not use the software in the user's smartphone as does Android Auto. In 2018, Polestar, Volvo's electric performance car, was the first vehicle to ...

Google’s smartphone-powered car infotainment system, called Android Auto, is now available within Google’s car-powered infotainment system, called Android Automotive. If it wasn’t already ...

He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Google is set to launch its Android Automotive app conversion program this February that helps developers convert their Android apps ...