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                <div class="landing-h1 hero">Android Auto</div>
                <div class="landing-subhead hero">Entertainment and services on your dashboard</div>
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                  <p>Display and control your handheld app in vehicles.
                  Build apps with easy-to-use UI templates that
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            <div class="landing-h1">Bringing Android to Your Car</div>
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            <p>When users connect their Android phone to an Android Auto enabled vehicle, the
              system shows an interface that lets users select compatible apps and services to run.
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            <p>Android Auto provides new APIs and tools that your existing Android apps can
              leverage to run on any compatible vehicle. Users interact with your apps through the
              touch screen and the physical buttons on the vehicle’s dashboard. Your apps can also
              respond to voice commands.
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            <p>Android Auto is an extension of the Android platform. You can easily adapt
            existing apps for Android Auto and reuse many of the Android APIs and services you
            are already familiar with.</p>
            <p>The Android Auto platform and SDK let you write your apps only once, without having
            to worry about vehicle-specific hardware differences like screen resolution, software
            interfaces, knobs and touch controls. Your app runs the same on any compatible
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            <p>We designed Android Auto to minimize driver distraction. Android Auto provides UI
              templates for several app categories. These templates define the user interaction model
              for any app and follow international best practices for reducing driver distraction.</p>
            <p>You can customize these templates to fit your brand and link them to your app’s
              content and functionality, instead of building new UIs and testing them for driver
              distraction, which is a lengthy and costly process.</p>
            <p>Android Auto locks any device that users connect to a compatible vehicle, so drivers
              interact with the device using voice actions and the vehicle’s input controls.</p>
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                Android Auto is coming soon to new cars from these manufacturers:
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            <p>We're working with developers to bring many popular apps to Android Auto:</p>
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            <div class="landing-pre-h1">Coming soon</div>
            <div class="landing-h1">Android Auto SDK</div>
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            <p>In the coming months, we’ll be releasing the Android Auto SDK, which includes APIs
              and tools to make your existing apps compatible with Android Auto. The first version
              of the SDK will provide templates and APIs for music, podcast, live radio, and audio
              news apps, as well as limited voice actions.</p>
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              Future versions of the Android Auto SDK will include support for a selection of
              Android notifications, additional voice actions, and templates and APIs for
              messaging, communication, local search, and more.</p>

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                Join the Android Auto developer community on Google+ to stay involved, get the
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