Posted by Vivek Radhakrishnan – Technical Program Supervisor, and Seung Nam – Product Supervisor
With expertise in vehicles changing into extra succesful, the chance to ship protected and seamless linked experiences for drivers and passengers is larger than ever. Google stays dedicated to the automotive business and is seeing momentum throughout Android Auto and vehicles powered by Android Automotive OS with Google built-in. We’re excited to share updates throughout our in-car experiences and introduce new packages and sources to make it simpler so that you can carry your apps to vehicles. Study extra beneath and within the Android for Vehicles Technical Session.
With over 200 million vehicles on the highway appropriate with Android Auto, and practically 40 automotive fashions just like the Nissan Rogue, Renault R5, Acura ZDX, and Ford Explorer providing Google built-in, the time to carry your apps to vehicles is now.
During the last 12 months, the ecosystem of apps obtainable throughout these experiences has grown – because of you. New leisure apps like Max, Peacock and Offended Birds are coming to pick vehicles with Google built-in. On Android Auto, the Uber Driver app is now obtainable, permitting drivers to simply accept rides and deliveries, and get turn-by-turn instructions on a much bigger display screen.
We’re additionally happy to share that Google Forged is coming to vehicles with Android Automotive OS, beginning with Rivian with extra to observe. This lets you simply solid video content material out of your cellphone or pill on to the automotive whereas parked. For those who don’t already provide casting in your app, this can be a easy manner to your content material to succeed in new audiences within the automotive.
Coming quickly – you possibly can stream content material from apps in your cellphone, like Pluto TV, to Rivian vehicles by way of Google Forged.
There are distinctive concerns when creating apps and experiences for vehicles together with security, quite a few display screen sizes, and extra. Our precedence is creating sources and instruments that take these concerns into consideration and decrease the work wanted so that you can carry your apps to vehicles.
We’re introducing new high quality tiers, impressed by people who exist for giant screens, to streamline the method of bringing present apps to vehicles by highlighting what makes for an excellent consumer expertise in vehicles. Listed below are the tiers and what they embody:
To be taught extra concerning the high quality tiers, see Android app high quality for vehicles.
Let’s dive deep into Tier 3 apps. In collaboration with automotive producers, we’re introducing the Automotive prepared cellular apps program to speed up bringing cellular apps to vehicles with no further work for builders.
As a part of this program, Google will proactively evaluation cellular apps which might be already adaptive and enormous display screen appropriate to make sure security and compatibility in vehicles. If the app qualifies, we are going to robotically decide it in for distribution on vehicles with Google built-in and make it obtainable in Android Auto, with out the necessity for brand spanking new growth or a brand new launch to be created. This program will begin with parked app classes like video, gaming and browsers with plans to increase to different app classes sooner or later.
This system will roll out within the coming months, however when you already provide a big display screen appropriate adaptive app and it falls into one in every of these classes, you possibly can request a evaluation to take part sooner. As this program rolls out, availability of your app will rely upon platform compatibility.
To be taught extra about constructing certified cellular apps, take a look at the technical session titled “Constructing Adaptive Android Apps”. Yow will discover steering on what to look out for at developer.google.com
To create prime quality experiences in vehicles, we’re additionally introducing some new instruments that may make it easier to alongside the best way.
To be taught extra about the best way to use these instruments, take a look at the “Construct and take a look at a parked app for Android Automotive OS” codelab that shall be printed tomorrow.
As you contemplate bringing your app to vehicles, we put collectively a desk that will help you perceive what app classes are at present open and accepting app submissions throughout each Android Auto and vehicles with Google built-in. We are going to proceed to increase the kind of apps that may be enabled in vehicles, so in case your app isn’t in one in every of these classes, keep tuned for future alternatives!
To learn to carry your apps to vehicles, take a look at the documentation on the Android for Vehicles developer web site and the Android for Vehicles Technical Session. With all of the alternatives throughout automotive screens, there has by no means been a greater time to carry your apps and experiences to vehicles. Thanks for all of the contributions to the Android ecosystem. See you on the highway!
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