Android Auto is finally getting a modern Material Design refresh

A dark theme, a new look and a lot of anticipation

Google is finally updating the look of Android Car with a more traditional grid-similar abode screen, the visitor's Textile Pattern stylings and the ability to control music and see directions while within of other apps.

Now, if you lot're playing music and you open another app, the music controls shrink into the nav bar so you can skip to the next or previous song or tap the play/pause button.

The aforementioned affair happens with Maps. If yous're navigating with Maps and you open up another app, the management panel becomes role of the nav bar and displays your adjacent upcoming turn. The company'due south blog mail service also says you'll be able to hang up phone calls from the nav bar when you're on the telephone.

The interface is unique looking and makes it and then users can access more than features at once. You could practice this in the old Android Machine with the Homescreen panel, only yous were locked into using pocket-size sections of each app. Now, you'll be able to utilise one total app plus a slice of another.

Instead of a row of v buttons, there are only 3 this time around – 'Notification Middle,' a 'Home Push button' and a microphone icon that triggers Google Assistant.

The visitor has also done away with the gradients of colours that were on the homescreen and has instead replaced information technology with a night background which the company says is to "fit in amend with your car's interior." While the central theme is dark, there are pops of colour throughout the OS to brand it like shooting fish in a barrel to see things.

A nice quality of life improvement at present makes certain that Android Machine expands to fit wider displays. These larger displays can show more information as well, according to Google.

Another modify seems to exist with how users can interact with notifications. In the blog post, a photo makes it look like users will be able to come across incoming messages instead of just hearing them. This change recently came to the older version of Android Motorcar, but it only works while you're not moving. It volition be interesting to see how the new pattern handles notification previews.

Currently in Android Auto Google locks users into only interacting with the display a handful of times while you're moving before it stops and tells yous to put your eyes dorsum on the route. That'south i feature that Apple'due south CarPlay doesn't have then peradventure with this release, Google will become rid of the restriction to make it a fleck easier to find the song you're trying to play.

At the end of the mail service, Google says it will share more than data on May 7th at Google I/O.

If you want to discover out more about the electric current iteration of Android Auto, bank check out our post that compares it to Apple tree'south CarPlay.

Source: Google