{"id":258631,"date":"2026-05-29T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/i-tried-different-android-auto-weather-apps-these-3-are-best-for-storm-nerds-like-me\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:15:10","slug":"i-tried-different-android-auto-weather-apps-these-3-are-best-for-storm-nerds-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/i-tried-different-android-auto-weather-apps-these-3-are-best-for-storm-nerds-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried different Android Auto weather apps &#8211; these 3 are best for storm nerds like me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/best-android-auto-weather-apps\/\">I tried different Android Auto weather apps &#8211; these 3 are best for storm nerds like me<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/best-android-auto-weather-apps\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/best-android-auto-weather-apps\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 08:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Artie Beaty\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET:\u00a0<span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You have a few options for Android Auto weather apps.<\/li>\n<li>The two main options provide much deeper info than the default.<\/li>\n<li>MyRadar has one extra feature that makes it my top pick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Android Auto has a fairly deep roster of useful apps you probably haven&#8217;t downloaded, but there&#8217;s one area it&#8217;s surprisingly limited &#8212; weather. If you&#8217;ve ever hit a huge storm on a road trip, though, or seen ominous clouds piling up in the sky ahead of your commute, you know how useful weather insight can be.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit of a weather nerd, and I love taking a peek at the radar and forecasts even if I don&#8217;t expect storms to have a direct impact on my day. When I tried to see what apps I could add to my car&#8217;s screen for easy access, though, I was a bit disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: I saw the future of Android Auto, and now Google has me dreading my own car<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I only found two main options: MyRadar and Weather &#038; Radar. There are a few other choices that don&#8217;t have full Android Auto integration, some more apps for the confusingly named but different Android Automotive, and of course, you can mirror your phone to show any app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After testing both apps for about a week, I found both useful, but one had a few features that set it apart. If you&#8217;re looking for the best weather app for Android Auto, here&#8217;s my pick.<\/p>\n<h2>MyRadar<\/h2>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"myradar-android-auto\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>   <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Artie Beaty\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The MyRadar app isn&#8217;t just the best Android Auto weather app; it&#8217;s also one of the most robust weather apps I&#8217;ve used. It&#8217;s as easy to use as any other weather app, but it provides a lot more information. At its core, it&#8217;s a radar app that lets you see live weather radar for your location or any other location you search for, making it a useful tool for tracking approaching storms. The real value in this app goes beyond basic radar.<\/p>\n<p>The default map is either flat or globe-shaped, showing rainfall and storm intensity, but you can pull up a number of other maps, like road, aerial, or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/best-android-auto-weather-apps\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried different Android Auto weather apps &#8211; these 3 are best for storm nerds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/6e1fe7d3bce9ba22a054046158e2a8b6568a7131\/2026\/05\/28\/64bf7484-1d06-4efc-bf9e-8786d6529163\/pxl-20260528-170551530.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-258631","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\/258631"}],"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=258631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258635,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258631\/revisions\/258635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}