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>> Continuing with the above example, let's imagine I just downloaded a new podcast app on my phone (one that is also available in the [Android A]utomotive Play
by Jtsummers 3y ago
>> Continuing with the above example, let's imagine I just downloaded a new podcast app on my phone (one that is also available in the [Android A]utomotive Play Store).
They lost a capitalization which makes it a bit ambiguous but their scenario is this:
There are two app stores being discussed: iOS (for CarPlay), and Android Automotive (the infotainment system's play store).
If you have Android Automotive on an infotainment system and an iPhone and can't connect your iPhone to the infotainment system, you have to download the app twice: iOS App Store and Android Automotive Play Store.
I don't know the numbers, but Android Automotive infotainment systems don't universally support CarPlay. Some only got it via updates over the last couple years (that's also a selling point of them, though, that they could do it via software updates and not a whole hardware refresh).
- MBCook 3y agoAny car that supports android auto (not automotive), no matter what software it’s running, is technically capable of supporting CarPlay. If it doesn’t, that’s a choice the automaker made. Either to disable it or to not write that part of the software. I know Android Automotive already has all the code to support it. So for an android automotive car to not support CarPlay is 100% a decision.
- arjvik 3y agoThere's a difference between Android Auto (Google's CarPlay equivalent for phone projection to any infotainment system) and Android Automotive (Google's Infotainment OS).