Android Auto

There are still a few notable holdouts to Android Auto in the automotive industry. In fact 95% of the cars sold around the world now support Android Auto but so many of us are stuck with manufacturers who...

Google I/O is where Google like to announce the their ecosystem's developers, and the world, the new changes that are set to arrive in the following 12 months. This year they will be bringing a change to the...

Considering its a good 18 months since Google announced its Android Auto initiative, it's taken a while for compatible head units to become readily available in the market. That's starting to change this year though, with units shown off...

Google Assistant could soon be available in more places with recent code commits pointing towards it moving to the web through the Chrome browser for Mac and Windows. Google currently offers the Assistant on Android phones, tablets, watches, TVs and...

Nat and Lo are a couple of Googlers who have decided to use their 20% flexi time (Basically: they get to use 1 day a week to work on anything they like inside Google) to help we mere mortals...

Android Auto is slowly but surely becoming more commonplace. Most manufacturers of aftermarket head units are now including Android Auto in at least their top two models. So far Alpine has been a hold out in comparison...

The Google Home Hub is only one of a number of Smart Displays hitting the market, but the Home Hub is a little different to the devices from third-party manufacturers with a custom software running the platform. Diya Jolly,...

Android Auto was announced at Google I/O 2014 but it's adoption into cars has been very slow with only a handful of cars offering it as the standard in-car entertainment system. With Holden announcing that the 2016 model...

One of the first cars we were offered a look at when we started reaching out to manufacturers about Android Auto in 2015 was a Škoda Fabia. At the time, we weren't able to take them up on their...

There have been several radio apps over the time with varying levels of success. Never before has there been a radio app designed specifically for all Australian radio stations. Today the ingeniously named RadioApp has been released by Commercial...

It seems 2015 could be the year for Android Auto, with Kenwood jumping on board announcing availability of head units featuring the new Android software. Cars with built in support is one thing, but third-party head units that you...

Android Auto has already had some pretty major changes to its UI this year but it seems that Google are not stopping there with some tweaking of the UI set to arrive very soon. In a recent update...

Android Auto is going places (see what I did there?) and it's supporting us to do that as well. Over the past 12 months we've seen a UI overhaul, new features appearing and wireless connectivity. Despite these...

The other day Google blogged about how Android Auto would soon be arriving as an embedded system in some cars (Audi and Volvo at this stage). This afternoon at Google I/O more details were furnished to developers on...

When Android Auto was announced mid last year, we were quite interested but there wasn't much noise about whether (and when) Android Auto powered autos would actually arrive on scene. It looks as if Volkswagen will be among the...