Damien Wilde / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google is engaged on further cellular app compatibility for big screens in Android Automotive.
- There’s a brand new facet ratio menu that permits you to change between the default and full display.
- This compatibility will first arrive on the Volvo EX90.
It has been an eventful couple of days for Android Auto and Automotive bulletins. On the Android Automotive aspect, we discovered this week that Volvo’s automobiles would be the first autos with Google built-in to get Gemini integration. Whereas that has been the principle subject of dialogue, you’ve missed this different announcement about giant screens and app compatibility.
Throughout a Google I/O session, the corporate shared that it’s working with OEMs so as to add further cellular app compatibility for big screens. Together with that, Google is aiming to increase its catalog of car-ready, large-screen optimized cellular apps into the 1000’s. This can begin on automobiles with Google built-in working Android 14.
Within the screenshot above, you too can see a brand new facet ratio menu that can allow you to change between the app’s default measurement and full display. Android in your telephone obtained the same facet ratio menu with Android 14 QPR1.
When Volvo introduced that its automobiles can be the first to put in Gemini, it additionally revealed that Google would use its autos for creating new options and updates. This implies Volvo autos have first dibs on the newest Android options and efficiency enhancements. As such, it comes as no shock that Google says that the Volvo EX90 would be the first automotive to have entry to this expanded assortment of large-screen appropriate apps.
