{"id":254325,"date":"2026-05-13T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/android-auto-updates-full-screen-view-more-ai-in-car-video\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:05:52","slug":"android-auto-updates-full-screen-view-more-ai-in-car-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/android-auto-updates-full-screen-view-more-ai-in-car-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Auto Updates: Full-Screen View, More AI, In-Car Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/a71293887\/2026-android-auto-updates-full-screen-widgets-video-gemini\/\">Android Auto Updates: Full-Screen View, More AI, In-Car Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/a71293887\/2026-android-auto-updates-full-screen-widgets-video-gemini\/\">https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/a71293887\/2026-android-auto-updates-full-screen-widgets-video-gemini\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.caranddriver.com\">www.caranddriver.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-nqorpf emevuu60\">\n<li><strong>Google and Apple continue to improve their smartphone mirroring functions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Android Auto is getting several updates this year, including video playback, widgets, and Google Maps updates.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cars with Google built-in software will benefit from additional AI capabilities with Google Gemini.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">In the lead-up to this year&#8217;s Google I\/O developer conference, big G has announced some Android updates that will be of particular interest to drivers in its ecosystem. This includes people using Android Auto to project their phone to their in-car touchscreen, as well as anyone with a car that uses Google-based infotainment.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"screenmaxxing-widgets-in-car-video\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"body-h2 css-13wurb2 emevuu60\"><strong>Screenmaxxing, Widgets, <\/strong><strong>In-Car Video<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">With the updates coming to Android 11.0 and up later this year, full screen will actually mean full screen. Automotive interior designers seemingly invent new shapes for display screens all the time, and non-native systems like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto so far haven&#8217;t kept up, instead appearing in a rectilinear view within a view. Google&#8217;s latest fixes that.<\/p>\n<p><span data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-creditor\" class=\"css-7w7io6 e1geg53v2\">Google<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">In the case of Mini&#8217;s, um, unique circular center screen, firing up Android Auto will no longer display a rectangular peg in a round hole. The Android Auto interface now stretches from the left curved edge to the right, with only the top and bottom cropped to display vehicle-level info and controls. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Likewise, in the Lucid Gravity, the top driver display, with its organic shape and rounded corners, no longer gets letterboxed. Google also specifically called out the BMW Neue Klasse&#8217;s infotainment system and its irregular quadrilateral display, all of which are used when you&#8217;re navigating with the upgraded Google Maps.  <\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"android auto new google maps\" title=\"Android Auto new Google Maps\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\" sizes=\"100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/c0ee1ff9-05e2-4fe4-b640-f465bf7f94b1.png?crop=0.665xw:0.723xh;0,0.197xh&#038;resize=640:* 640w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/c0ee1ff9-05e2-4fe4-b640-f465bf7f94b1.png?crop=0.665xw:0.723xh;0,0.197xh&#038;resize=768:* 980w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/c0ee1ff9-05e2-4fe4-b640-f465bf7f94b1.png?crop=0.665xw:0.723xh;0,0.197xh&#038;resize=980:* 1120w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/c0ee1ff9-05e2-4fe4-b640-f465bf7f94b1.png?crop=0.665xw:0.723xh;0,0.197xh&#038;resize=980:* 1400w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/c0ee1ff9-05e2-4fe4-b640-f465bf7f94b1.png?crop=0.665xw:0.723xh;0,0.197xh&#038;resize=980:* 1800w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/c0ee1ff9-05e2-4fe4-b640-f465bf7f94b1.png?crop=0.665xw:0.723xh;0,0.197xh&#038;resize=980:* 2000w\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/c0ee1ff9-05e2-4fe4-b640-f465bf7f94b1.png?crop=0.665xw:0.723xh;0,0.197xh&#038;resize=980:*\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-creditor\" class=\"css-7w7io6 e1geg53v2\">Google<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Regardless of the shape of your Android Auto view, these new updates also bring customizable widgets that can show user-selected items, including photos, weather, and contact shortcuts. They&#8217;ll even overlay on the Google Maps view to surface things like the current audio without completely obscuring the map and directions.  Google Maps is coming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/a71293887\/2026-android-auto-updates-full-screen-widgets-video-gemini\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android Auto Updates: Full-Screen View, More AI, In-Car Video https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/a71293887\/2026-android-auto-updates-full-screen-widgets-video-gemini\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-13 03:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/a634b71b-684e-481c-a64e-0048b9ee315c.png?crop=1.00xw:0.894xh;0,0.106xh&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-254325","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\/254325"}],"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=254325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254327,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254325\/revisions\/254327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}