

New APIs also give media apps the capability to make recommendations for Google Assistant’s suggested listening feature, and new tools to enhance the navigation experience, like "alerters" to inform drivers of things like traffic cameras. These and several other new features were added as part of Car App Library v1.3. Thats a total of 18.6 inches of high definition touch-screen action. Car Player Carplay Android Auto Bluetooth IPS 2.5D Touch Screen GPS Navigation Car Radio. The bigger one on top measures 10 inches and the one below it is 8.6 inches. GPS Navigation Radio Player Double Din WIFI 7 inch audio Player Car. New app templates and categories were also added to support more types of parking and navigation apps, and also to add “driver apps” to the navigation category, which enables companies like Lyft to provide custom tools suited to their drivers. Audi calls its infotainment system MMI Touch Response and the Audi A8 sedan has two big screens on the dashboard. I’ll be damned if I can turn the split screens off which sucks when using CarPlay. All that does is swap between PHEV and radio modes.

In the infotainment manual it says tap the split screen arrow on the right side. There is no split screen button at the top. Lastly, I fail to understand why do we forum members keep calling in car displays as giant tablets. The manual says to turn off split screen, tap the split screen button at the top. I am confidant that almost everyone will like the split screen view of the Android Auto, when implemented. The biggest single detail is that apps can now be built to target a single library that works with both Android Auto and Android Automotive OS, saving a lot of time and energy involved with building and publishing separate variants. I use both on my car’s 7 inch display and the split screen view of CarPlay is far superior than Android Auto.

Since this is a developer conference, there are also a few new things for the app makers. However, if the original announcement holds true, video playback may be exclusive to Volvo for a short time before it rolls out to other brands. Nothing specific was said about how long this will take to roll out, and it’s not clear if all of these features will come at the same time.
