{"id":287927,"date":"2026-07-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/i-finally-found-a-way-to-watch-videos-on-android-auto-it-changed-my-waiting-game\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:20:06","slug":"i-finally-found-a-way-to-watch-videos-on-android-auto-it-changed-my-waiting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/i-finally-found-a-way-to-watch-videos-on-android-auto-it-changed-my-waiting-game\/","title":{"rendered":"I finally found a way to watch videos on Android Auto; it changed my waiting game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-finally-found-a-way-to-watch-videos-on-android-auto-and-its-changed-my-waiting-game\/\">I finally found a way to watch videos on Android Auto; it changed my waiting game<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-finally-found-a-way-to-watch-videos-on-android-auto-and-its-changed-my-waiting-game\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-finally-found-a-way-to-watch-videos-on-android-auto-and-its-changed-my-waiting-game\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-10 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android Auto is excellent at the basics. Things like navigation, playing music, and access to phone calls on the go all work great.<\/p>\n<p>But if you push the functionality towards video-focused entertainment, it falls apart. That&#8217;s mostly by design because it is designed to prioritize safety.<\/p>\n<p>But often enough, I find myself waiting in the car park when I&#8217;m picking up someone, or stuck in an hour-long traffic jam where a little bit of entertainment certainly wouldn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>So I started looking for a solution to this problem. After all, there should be a way to use the big screen in my car to watch videos. Turns out there is.<\/p>\n<p>An open source app called Fermata Auto promises to do exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, installing it is a bit of a hassle, but when done, it promises to augment Android Auto and fill one of the biggest gaps in Google&#8217;s platform.<\/p>\n<p>It lets me play back my own media on my car screen, while also giving me access to YouTube, IPTV streams, and even a full-fledged browser.<\/p>\n<p>While the usual caveats of prioritizing safety and not watching streaming services while driving apply, I have to say this has truly transformed my car&#8217;s entertainment system.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI tried Spotify, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music in Android Auto, and I have a clear winner for you<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Only one nailed every&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-finally-found-a-way-to-watch-videos-on-android-auto-and-its-changed-my-waiting-game\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found a way to watch videos on Android Auto; it changed my waiting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/07\/fermata-auto-on-car-screen.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-287927","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\/287927"}],"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=287927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287929,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287927\/revisions\/287929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}