So Android Auto going to look (photos) – Macworld

News – Developers can not even get started with Android Auto, but the first micro-apps make have to appear quickly. Google demonstrates’s how they will look like.

The apps for Android Auto micro-apps that are made available through regular Android available -apps on Google Play. Developers can therefore in developing choose to also add, just as it is now with Android Wear. An interface for Android Car at That can not just yet, because the Auto-SDK is not yet available

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Before, when you made an Android app quite the way you wanted it and you found time in the Android Market a lot diverse and sometimes unworkable interfaces. Google has more guidance from Android 4.0 with interface guidelines, but with Auto Wear and have not much more to say about the interface. As developer

Micro-apps should not distract

The location of buttons and the associated actions can not be changed. That may sound like a not so pretty limiting, but it provides a very clear UX and that helps users in the use of apps. And especially for devices where ‘frictionless’ is vital, it is important that a user does not have to think how to. Make the best navigated by app

In a car it is obviously even more important that a director is little need to think about. The operation of the interface Finery and feature-bloat are unwise. “Effective apps give just enough information in as little time as possible, so that the user only a glance at having to throw and his attention is on the road,” the developer site of Android Auto.

Day -night mode

Google Android Car presented this year at a developer conference I / O and software competition should engage with CarPlay Apple. Just as in Android devices is an Open Handset Alliance, Google has an Open Automotive Alliance called this time in life. In a few months an Android Auto-SDK should be available.

In the examples below you can see a number of standard interfaces that the micro-apps will use. There is also an automatic day-night mode, which jumps to a dark mode, as night falls. Android also works Car with a lot of the Android APIs that developers are already familiar, such as the notifications API

Photos:. (Via developer.android.com)