{"id":250532,"date":"2026-05-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/android-autos-big-2026-makeover-is-gemini-at-its-most-practical\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:20:17","slug":"android-autos-big-2026-makeover-is-gemini-at-its-most-practical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/android-autos-big-2026-makeover-is-gemini-at-its-most-practical\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Auto&#8217;s Big 2026 Makeover Is Gemini At Its Most Practical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2177781\/android-autos-big-2026-makeover-is-gemini-at-its-most-practical\/\">Android Auto&#8217;s Big 2026 Makeover Is Gemini At Its Most Practical<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2177781\/android-autos-big-2026-makeover-is-gemini-at-its-most-practical\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2177781\/android-autos-big-2026-makeover-is-gemini-at-its-most-practical\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 11:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">Vehicle-specific integrations, Immersive Navigation and Android-inspired widgets are small but helpful additions.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Igor Bonifacic for Engadget<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the Android Show: I\/O Edition last week, Google promised 2026 would be a big year for Android Auto, with major updates planned for how the platform looks and works across all the cars and devices where it&#8217;s available. At I\/O 2026, Engadget got a chance to see some of those upgrades running off both Android Auto on a phone and a Volvo EX60 with Google built-in.<\/p>\n<p>Right off the top, most of the enhancements Google announced earlier this month will be available to people whether they access them directly through their car or via a phone. I did notice some visual differences between how those features are presented. With Android Auto, you get Google&#8217;s own Material 3 Expressive across the board; with Google built-in, it&#8217;s still Material 3 Expressive, but tweaked to accommodate the automaker&#8217;s own stylings and the car&#8217;s specific hardware.<\/p>\n<p>The trade-off there is Google built-in offers Gemini integration that&#8217;s only possible when manufacturers directly include the assistant in their cars, allowing you to use your voice to tweak model-specific settings. In the case of the EX60, that meant the Google employee talking me through the demo was able to tell Gemini to &#8220;darken&#8221; the car&#8217;s sun roof, and it went from transparent to opaque. The employee was also able to ask Gemini to describe footage from one of the car&#8217;s front-facing cameras. When the assistant saw the Transamerica Pyramid in the distance, it told us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2177781\/android-autos-big-2026-makeover-is-gemini-at-its-most-practical\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android Auto&#8217;s Big 2026 Makeover Is Gemini At Its Most Practical https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2177781\/android-autos-big-2026-makeover-is-gemini-at-its-most-practical\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/android-autos-big-2026-makeover-is-gemini-at-its-most-practical\/l-intro-1779292472.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-250532","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\/250532"}],"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=250532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250534,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250532\/revisions\/250534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}