{"id":927593,"date":"2026-10-14T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927593\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:58:09","slug":"android-automotive-getting-huge-google-play-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927593\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Automotive Getting Huge Google Play Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google is getting ready to push out a substantial update to the Google Play Store experience on Cars with Google built-in, also known as Android Automotive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only are they bringing a redesigned interface, their goal is to make it easier and quicker to find the apps you want and install them. Browsing should be improved too, plus the new layout is the type that can adapt to all of the different screen shapes and sizes in today\u2019s vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Big Google Play update on cars<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may not have known this, but Google Play on your car has more than 700 apps available. You probably didn\u2019t know that because the Google Play experience was pretty poor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the new update rolls out (\u201cover the coming weeks\u201d), again, you\u2019ll see featured apps, what\u2019s new, more details, and single-tap downloads of the apps you want. Google also says there is a \u201cstreamlined navigation\u201d with curated collections, plus the new layouts we talked out about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a bit of related news, there are new apps coming for STARZ, Firefox, Ludo King, and JioHotstar. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, YouTube is going to let you watch a video when parked and then keep listening uninterrupted through background audio as you go to drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us know if your car gets the update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products-and-platforms\/platforms\/android\/cars-with-google-built-in-google-play-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>  Add Droid Life on Google:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is getting ready to push out a substantial update to the Google Play Store experience on Cars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[199425,16555,64,63,32523,203,105],"class_list":["post-927593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-android-automotive","tag-apps","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-google-play","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}