Posted by Ben Sagmoe – Developer Relations Engineer

The in-car expertise continues to evolve quickly, and Google stays dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is potential. At Google I/O 2025, we’re excited to unveil the most recent developments for drivers, automobile producers, and builders, furthering our purpose of a protected, seamless, and useful linked driving expertise.

At present’s automobile cabins are more and more digital, providing builders thrilling new alternatives with bigger shows and extra highly effective computing. Android Auto is now supported in practically all new vehicles bought, with virtually 250 million suitable autos on the highway.

We’re additionally seeing important development in vehicles powered by Android Automotive OS with Google built-in. Over 50 fashions are at present accessible, with extra launching this 12 months. This development is fueled by a thriving app ecosystem, together with over 300 apps already accessible on the Play Retailer. These embrace apps optimized for a protected and seamless expertise whereas driving in addition to leisure apps for when you’re parked and ready in your automobile—a lot of that are adaptive cell apps which were seamlessly delivered to vehicles by means of the Automotive Prepared Cellular Apps Program.

A vibrant developer neighborhood is important to delivering these modern in-car experiences using the completely different screens throughout the automobile cabin. This previous 12 months, we have targeted on key areas to assist empower builders to construct extra differentiated experiences in vehicles throughout each platforms, as we embark on the Gemini period in vehicles!

Gemini for Automobiles

Thrilling information for in-car experiences: Gemini, Google’s superior AI, is coming to autos! This unlocks a brand new period of protected and useful interactions on the go.

Gemini allows pure voice conversations and seamless multitasking, empowering drivers to get extra executed just by talking naturally. Think about effortlessly discovering charging stations or navigating to a location pulled immediately from an e-mail, all with simply your voice.

You may learn to leverage Gemini’s potential to create partaking in-car experiences in your app.

Navigation apps can combine with Gemini utilizing three core intent codecs, permitting you to begin navigation, show related search outcomes, and execute customized actions, akin to enabling customers to report incidents like site visitors congestion utilizing their voice.

Gemini for vehicles will probably be rolling out within the coming months. Get able to construct the following era of in-car AI experiences!

New developer applications and instruments

Final 12 months, we launched automobile app high quality tiers to encourage builders to create prime quality in-car experiences. By creating your app in compliance with the Automotive prepared tier, you’ll be able to convey video, gaming, or browser apps to run whereas parked in vehicles with Google built-in with virtually no extra effort. Study extra about Automotive Prepared Cellular Apps.

Your app can additional shine in vehicles throughout the Automotive optimized and Automotive differentiated tiers to unlock experiences whereas the automobile is in movement, and in addition when transitioning between parked and driving modes, whereas using the completely different screens throughout the fashionable automobile cabin. Verify the automobile app high quality tips for particulars.

To begin with, throughout each Android Auto and for vehicles with Google built-in, we have made some thrilling enhancements for Automotive App Library:

• The Climate app class has graduated from beta: any developer can now publish climate apps to manufacturing tracks on each Android Auto and vehicles with Google Constructed-in. Earlier than you publish your app, verify that it meets the high quality tips for climate apps.
• Two new templates, the SectionedItemTemplate and MediaPlaybackTemplate, are actually accessible within the Automotive App Library 1.8 alpha launch to be used on Android Auto. These templates are an awesome match for constructing templated media apps, permitting for elevated customization in structure and looking construction.

On Android Auto, many new app classes and capabilities are actually in beta:

• We’re including help for Constructing media apps with the Automotive App Library, enabling media app builders to construct each richer and extra full experiences that customers are used to on their telephones. Throughout beta, builders can construct and publish media apps constructed utilizing the Automotive App Library to inside testing and closed testing tracks. You too can categorical curiosity in being an early entry accomplice to publish to manufacturing whereas the class is in beta. 
• The communications class is in beta. We have simplified calling integration for calling apps by using the CallsManager Jetpack API. Along with the templates offered by the Automotive App Library, this allows communications apps to construct options like full message historical past, upcoming conferences listing, wealthy in-call views, and extra. Throughout beta, builders can construct and publish communications apps to inside testing and closed testing tracks. You too can categorical curiosity in being an early entry accomplice to publish to manufacturing whereas the class is in beta.
• Video games are actually supported in Android Auto, whereas parked, on telephones working Android 15 and above. You may already discover some widespread titles like Offended Birds 2, Farm Heroes Saga, Sweet Crush Soda Saga and Seashore Buggy Racing 2. The Video games class is in Beta and builders can publish video games to inside testing and closed testing tracks. You too can categorical curiosity in being an early entry accomplice to publish to manufacturing whereas the class is in beta.

Lastly, we now have additional simplified constructing, testing and distribution expertise for builders constructing apps for Android Automotive OS vehicles with Google built-in:

• Distribution by means of Google Play is extra versatile than ever. It’s now potential for apps within the parked classes to distribute in the identical APK or App Bundle to vehicles with Google built-in as to telephones, together with by means of the cell launch monitor. Study extra on methods to Distribute to vehicles.
• Android Automotive OS on Pixel Pill is now typically accessible, supplying you with a bodily gadget choice for testing Android Automotive OS apps with out shopping for or renting a automobile. Moreover, the latest system photographs embrace help for performing as an Android Auto receiver, that means you should utilize the identical gadget to check each your app’s expertise on Android Auto and Android Automotive OS. Apply for entry to those photographs.

The highway forward

You may stay up for extra updates later this 12 months, together with:

• Video apps will probably be supported on Android Auto, beginning with telephones working Android 16 on choose suitable vehicles. In case your app is already adaptive, enabling your app expertise whereas parked solely requires minimal steps to distribute to vehicles.
• For Android Automotive OS vehicles working Android 14+ with Google built-in, we’re working with automobile producers so as to add extra app compatibility, to allow 1000’s of adaptive cell apps within the subsequent section of the Automotive Prepared Cellular Apps Program.
• Up to date design documentation that visualizes automobile app high quality tips and integration paths to simplify designing your app for vehicles.
• Google Play Companies for vehicles with Google built-in are increasing to convey them on-par with cell, together with:
a. Passkeys and Credential Supervisor APIs for a extra seamless person sign-in expertise.
b. Fast Share, which is able to allow straightforward cross-device sharing from cellphone to automobile.
• Pre-launch studies for Android Automotive OS are coming quickly to the Play Console, serving to you guarantee app high quality earlier than distributing your app to vehicles.

You’ll want to preserve updated by means of goo.gle/cars-whats-new on these options and extra as we repeatedly spend money on the way forward for Android within the automobile. Keep tuned for extra sources that can assist you construct modern and fascinating experiences for drivers and passengers.

Able to publish your automobile app? Verify our steering for distributing to vehicles.

Discover this announcement and all Google I/O 2025 updates on io.google beginning Might 22.