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Android N will run natively in cars
Google is setting up Android to take over cars.
The upcoming Android N release will allow Android to run natively within cars, letting Google put much deeper hooks into the cars it runs on, the company announced Wednesday at its I/O developer conference.
In addition to media, navigation and messaging apps that you can currently control from Android Auto-equipped dashboards, native integration also allows drivers to access their heating and air conditioning, AM/FM radio and other core functions.
It also means that carmakers can incorporate Android directly into instrument clusters. One concept Google showed off, for example, puts a Google Maps navigation widget in the instrument cluster, right next to the car's speedometer. The concept, on a Maserati Ghibli, is also equipped with a 15-inch 4K display and a 720P digital cluster. Read more...
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