{"id":214191,"date":"2026-02-16T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/android-auto-16-3-update-arrives-with-hints-of-video-apps\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:00:11","slug":"android-auto-16-3-update-arrives-with-hints-of-video-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/android-auto-16-3-update-arrives-with-hints-of-video-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Auto 16.3 update arrives with hints of video apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/16\/android-auto-16-3-update-lands-with-traces-of-video-apps-light-theme\/\">Android Auto 16.3 update arrives with hints of video apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/16\/android-auto-16-3-update-lands-with-traces-of-video-apps-light-theme\/\">https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/16\/android-auto-16-3-update-lands-with-traces-of-video-apps-light-theme\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-16 14:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5google.com\">9to5google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has started rolling out Android Auto 16.3 through the beta track and while there are no major changes, there are a couple of hints at what\u2019s to come, including the arrival of video apps.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-704591\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>About APK Insight:<\/strong> In this \u201cAPK Insight\u201d post, we\u2019ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we\u2019re able to see various lines of code within that hint at possible future features. Keep in mind that Google may or may not ever ship these features, and our interpretation of what they are may be imperfect. We\u2019ll try to enable those that are closer to being finished, however, to show you how they\u2019ll look in case that they do ship. With that in mind, read on.<\/p>\n<p>With Android Auto 16.2 now starting to roll out more widely in the stable release channel, Google has launched Android Auto 16.3 in the beta track. And, as is often the case, there are no significant user-facing changes to be found. It\u2019s usually safe to assume there are a few bug fixes here or there, but this is a pretty uneventful update as far as we can tell. <\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, though, there are a couple of noteworthy tidbits.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\">Advertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Firstly, there\u2019s a sign of continued work on Android Auto\u2019s light theme, something that\u2019s been in the works for well over a year at this point. A flag present in Android Auto 16.3 suggests Google is still working on a light\/dark theme toggle, but there\u2019s nothing facing the user just yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoolwalk__use_light_dark_theme_focus_input\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There have been tidbits around the light theme for some time now, though, so another flag showing up doesn\u2019t mean much beyond Google just continuing to tinker around with the feature. <\/p>\n<p>More notable is that Google has added another flag around video apps on Android Auto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCradleFeature__allow_video_apps\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/16\/android-auto-16-3-update-lands-with-traces-of-video-apps-light-theme\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android Auto 16.3 update arrives with hints of video apps https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/16\/android-auto-16-3-update-lands-with-traces-of-video-apps-light-theme\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-16 14:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/Android-Auto-Maps-and-Music-playback-5.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-214191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214193,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214191\/revisions\/214193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}