Android Auto gets more than Google’s Gemini assistant after the Google I / S Developer conference. The company has also announced or presented a series of modifications to come to the infotainment operating system, including a Spotify update application, a light mode and the introduction of web browsers and video applications.
Let’s start with Spotify. Google revealed in a video Last week, the Spotify application for Android Auto obtains a redesign via new multimedia applications models that the company makes available to developers. A functionality that the musical service adds to Android Auto is Spotify Jam, a feature that allows users to share the control of an audio source from their individual devices.
In cars with Android Auto, this means that anyone with Spotify will intervene by pressing a new “JAM” icon on the car touch screen, then scanning a QR code to start adding songs to come to La Playlist. Being a Spotify feature, it is much more inclusive than the similar Shareplay functionality of Apple Music, which forces everyone to have an Apple device to participate. Spotify Jam will be available “in the coming months,” said the company.
Also in the video, Google says that it adds fast support for cars with google integrated soon, allowing users to do things like add stops with Google Maps roads in progress. The company also claims that it will add Passkey support for its infotainment operating system.
Thanks to a Google Figma kit, Google has done for the prototyping of the Android Auto user interface, we also have a new look on a light fashion theme on which the company works for Android Auto. Google did not really say that it deploys a light mode in its blog on all the changes that arrive on Android Auto, but as 9TO5GOOGLE notesThe user interface option was In preparation for years.
One thing Google has mentioned – and briefly – is that browser and video applications arrive on Android Auto. The company claims that the applications category, as well as video applications, will be available “soon” for Android Auto and that game applications are already available in beta. Naturally, Google says that these features will only work during a car in the park. The browsers’ function is already available in beta for cars with integrated Google, while video applications are already available in this version of its infotainment system. The company also announced that support for weather applications was officially out of the beta version.
