Android Auto is a major improvement over anything ANY of the car manufacturers have ever offered their customers in the way of infotainment systems. For this reason, and the fact that nearly every Australian adult owns a smartphone it boggles the mind that not all Australian car manufacturers include the …
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When manufacturers started to introduce dark modes to their phones for the battery and eye saving characteristics there was bound to be some unexpected flow on effects due to improper implementation. Samsung seem to have found it with their system-wide night mode triggering Android Auto into night mode also. For …
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When Google introduced YouTube Music everyone was scratching their heads wondering where it was meant to fit in to the whole Google music ecosystem. Slowly but surely it has become apparent that Google plan on replacing Google Play Music with YouTube Music and today it took one more step towards …
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Nearly every manufacturer of vehicles affordable to the average person has implemented Android Auto into their infotainment systems. There has been one holdout, Toyota who, while promising they were adding it. have never gotten around to actually doing it. Last September Toyota announced that they would be adding Android Auto …
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Many of us listen to podcasts while driving so it stands to reason that a successful podcast app would have Android Auto support. You would also expect the king of Android Auto, Google, would have this seemingly simple feature of Android Auto support built into their podcast app, Google Podcasts. …
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Yesterday we reported on the new Android Auto update that was slowly rolling out to users. Today Google have details those changes as well as a few more in their Android Auto blog post. Along with the new media browsing interface and messaging preview Google have also announced improved search …
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At Google IO this year, Google gave us a sneak peak into the new design for Android Auto that they were hoping to introduce this year. It has been a long wait since Google IO but it seems that the new UI is now starting to roll out to a …
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The reluctance of some car manufacturers to use either Android Auto or Apple CarPlay is sheer pig headedness. Their infotainment systems are old, clunky, outdated and usually unintuitive. Slowly but surely most manufacturers are being brought onboard the Android Auto/Apple CarPlay bandwagon, albeit kicking and screaming. Mazda is the latest …
Read More »Since launch, Apple’s streaming music has gained traction as a popular service across the two major mobile platforms, but for those on Android it has been lacking some functions. The latest update, rolling out now through Google Play, addresses some of these functions missing from the Android app as well …
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Android Auto is something that some of us have but many of us wish we had. Some car manufacturers have gotten onboard with Android Auto (and Apple Carplay) realising that it is actually beneficial to them but there are also many (cough cough Toyota) who for some reason seem to …
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Android Auto seems like an after-thought for Google at times. Several times they have updated Google Assistant resulting in breaking some Android Auto functionality. They have now done it again with a recent update preventing Google Assistant from playing any music for the user. In a recent update to Google …
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Last year Google gave Android Auto users choice when it added Waze to the map options. Unfortunately at the time it was not available to users without an Android Auto head unit but now that has changed. The team at @Android have today sent out a Tweet announcing the arrival …
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Remember OBD2AA? The app that did what Google could not — allowed Android Auto users the ability to view OBD2 data. The innovative developer who created OBD2AA is at it again, doing something that Google have not done — creating a wireless Android Auto connection on a standard Android Auto …
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Mazda has long been a holdout on Google’s and Apple’s smartphone connection technologies (Android Auto and Car Play respectively), but all that’s about to change this year, according to automotive news site Car Advice. The good news for existing owners is that Mazda will offer an upgrade kit to its …
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When wireless Android Auto finally arrived at CES this year we (well I was) were all excited about cutting the cords, no longer having a reliance on the USB cable being compatible with the head unit. Unfortunately it seems that there are compatibility issues with wireless Android Auto too. At …
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