Android Automotivethe declination of the Android operating system intended for the automotive world, is preparing to reach the version 16 with which it aims to optimize and improve the user experience, without distorting aesthetics, implementing new functions such as the Appecard.
It emerges, then, that the New Audi Q3 It is completely entrusted to Android Automotive for the management of the car, even if in a particular version. Finally, Lucid Motors is finally decisive to bring Android Auto on its cars.
Index:
- Android Automotive 16 and closer and closer
- Appecard may not be exclusive to version 16 of the operating system
- The new Audi Q3 is completely relied on Android Automotive
- Android Auto on Lucid cars
Android Automotive 16 and closer and closer
We recently talked about the version 16 of Android Automotive, an operating system designed for the automotive world, which should bring small aesthetic retouches with it but no revolution (so to speak, the Material 3 Expressive of Android 16 QPR1 should not be of the match).
There is room for a new functionality called Appecarddescribed by Google as a group of user interface elements (with a “controlled” style by the vehicle manufacturer) which compiled with information provided by the apps, showing users with data and features relevant in an accessible and always available way.
Appecard may not be exclusive to version 16 of the operating system
The well -known Insider Mishaal Rahman He has already had the opportunity to “test” this new feature, suggesting that he may not request version 16 of Android Automotive to be used (via Android Authority).
The Appecard, after all, aim to solve a problem currently present in the operating system that “forces” users to constantly have an eye on information that could prove to be not useful or not relevant at that precise instant.
Probably, the effective success of this novelty depends so much on the app developers (who will have to update the apps to take advantage of this new way of showing information to drivers), as from car manufacturers (who will have to issue an update to support the novelty).
The new Audi Q3 is completely relied on Android Automotive
The new Audi Q3fresh launch, rotates entirely around Android Automotive, allowing users to take advantage of the apps for Android and the potential of a Google account without the need to connect the smartphone (via cable or wirelessly) to the car.
The particularity of the implementation of the Operating System developed by Audi, however, lies in the fact that it has chosen an “open” and (largely) version without the services of the Mountain View giant.
On the new Audi Q3, therefore, we find an App Store owner of the German manufacturer, from which customers can download apps (also popular such as YouTube): we will see if other car manufacturers will also adopt such approach in the future.
Android Auto on Lucid cars
Two years after the implementation of the support to Apple Carplay, Lucid Motors has announced the release of an OTA (over-the-air) update for the Lucid Air who will earn support for Android Auto (both in the wired version and in a wireless version) via the display “Glass cockpit”.
The same treatment will then be up to the Lucid gravity for which support for Android Auto will be implemented later (always through an OTA update that will bring with it the new Lucid OS 2.7.0). Below we propose an extract from the press release released by Lucid Motors:
Lucid Group, manufacturer of the most advanced electric vehicles in the world, has announced today that the Android Auto Smart Driving Companion application is now available on all Lucid Air vehicles through an Over-The-AIR update OS 2.7.0. The owners of the award -winning Lucid Air can now access the maps without problems, the multimedia content and the messaging apps of their favorite Android smartphone on the Glass cockpit of the Lucid Air via USB or in wireless mode.
[…] Access to Android Auto for Lucid Gravity owners will be available shortly.
