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Android Auto
Entertainment and services on your dashboard

Display and control your handheld app in vehicles. Build apps with easy-to-use UI templates that let users keep their eyes on the road.

Bringing Android to Your Car

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.

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.

One Platform

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.

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 vehicle.

Minimizing Distraction

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.

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.

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.

Building an Ecosystem

Android Auto is coming soon to new cars from these manufacturers:

Partners
Developer Stories

We're working with developers to bring many popular apps to Android Auto:

Coming soon
Android Auto SDK

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.

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.

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G+ Community

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