{"id":392259,"date":"2021-04-06T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T11:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=392259"},"modified":"2021-04-06T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T11:06:09","slug":"more-android-auto-apps-coming-to-the-google-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/392259-more-android-auto-apps-coming-to-the-google-play-store.html","title":{"rendered":"More Android Auto apps coming to the Google Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2021\/04\/start-your-engines-launch-new-android.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> <\/strong>that third-party developers can now publicly release new navigation, parking, and charging apps on the Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>This update is in response to many requests from Android Auto users for a more diverse range of app categories, after Google initially only allowed the submission of messaging and media apps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal with the library is to enable you to easily bring your app to 500+ models of Android Auto-compatible vehicles while meeting our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/docs\/quality-guidelines\/car-app-quality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app quality guidelines<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; Google stated.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the company<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2021\/03\/android-auto-apps-powered-by-jetpack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open-sourced<\/a><\/strong> its Android for Cars App Library in January, allowing developers to submit Android Auto Apps for open testing.<\/p>\n<p>The move to Jetpack enabled the migration of other Jetpack APIs to provide developers with greater compatibility.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest announcement, Android Auto apps can now be pushed to production for release to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been hard at work stabilising the library. Publishing to production enables drivers to use your Android Auto app on their car screen without needing to sign up for a beta program,\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2021\/04\/start-your-engines-launch-new-android.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a> <\/strong>said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Developer guidelines<\/h3>\n<p>While it&#8217;s now easier for developers to publish an app to Android Auto, Google has not surrendered all authority with regards to oversight over approval.<\/p>\n<p>To suit Google&#8217;s app quality requirements, apps must follow the developer guide and be thoroughly reviewed. These requirements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design the app with Google&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/training\/cars\/navigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">developer guide<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Develop an app with the latest version of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/jetpack\/androidx\/releases\/car-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">androidx.car.app<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Test the app with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/training\/cars\/testing#test-auto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">desktop head unit<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and the new\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/training\/cars\/navigation#testing_library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testing library<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Publish the app to the production track in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/play.google.com\/console\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Play Console<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The screenshots below show examples of partner apps running on the Jetpack library.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Google-Android-Auto-collage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-392285 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Google-Android-Auto-collage-640x394.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Google-Android-Auto-collage-640x394.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Google-Android-Auto-collage-600x369.png 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Google-Android-Auto-collage-768x473.png 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Google-Android-Auto-collage-1200x738.png 1200w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Google-Android-Auto-collage.png 1492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/392149-google-will-make-own-processor-for-next-flagship-smartphone-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google will make own processor for next flagship smartphone \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently announced that third-party developers can now publicly release new navigation, parking and charging apps on the Play Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341058,"featured_media":292412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[69277,46489,167,10960,55692],"class_list":["post-392259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android-auto-apps","tag-charging","tag-google","tag-navigation","tag-parking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392291,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392259\/revisions\/392291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}