Possessing entertainment screens built into the car is not going anywhere anytime soon. To which manufacturers happily agree, since they get great advantage from such platforms in terms of flexibility. The proof is in the example: Additional and new applications are introduced to cars through Android Auto which operates on a mobile phone or via native Google, built into the car. Furthermore, there will not be a lot of work required in order to bring gaming or streaming applications into vehicles.
Google will launch in cars streaming the Android, applications, and video games apps.
This was among the many statements made at Google I/O 2024, and this has to be among the most impactful statements here apart from all the AI and mobile gadgetry news. The best part? Again, Google does not need to do much to set the whole thing in motion, neither do the developers.
In other words, Google will now begin allowing the provision of Android apps to cars ‘without requiring a new development or a new version,’ according to product managers, Vivek Radhakrishnan and Seung Nam. This means that ecosystems of Android Auto and native Google should get qualitatively a lot larger, and all this – staying on already present technical platforms.
Any app that operates on a large in-car screen should shortly also run in a car, with a new distinguishing Android applications by those that are created and run uniquely for automobiles, those with unique features on automobiles and those designed for smart phones or tabs that additionally work on automobiles. Car application developers interested in this “Mobile Apps for Car” category can currently submit to it and Google will begin distributing these badges to current Android applications that it thinks will be prepared for integration “in the coming months”.
We will have to be patient and accept the many conditions
When it comes to security, Google will start with categories like video game apps, video apps, and browsers, and these will only work when the car is parked. There is an intention to “expand to other categories of apps in the future”, but we will have to wait and see if some mobile apps will be accessible in a moving vehicle.
At the same time, Google is also proactively adding some apps to cars, but only to those with Google natively. This is the case with Max and Peacock, as well as a version of Angry Birds. Customers with a compatible Rivian car will also soon be able to stream video content to their vehicle. Other brands are expected to follow, but again, only for native Google. And again, these apps will only work when the vehicle is parked…