We are going to tell you the news of the next version of Android Autosince we have with us the Android Auto 15.6 beta that allows us to see what is coming. Again it is a version no new features or external changes that you are going to notice, although yes anticipate the arrival of a very important novelty.
Therefore, we are going to review what specific new features this new version of the operating system for the car brings. Remember that you will be able to use it directly on the vehicle’s screen, connecting your Android mobile via cable or wirelessly if the car is compatible.
What’s new in Android Auto 15.6 beta
As we told you at the beginning, the first thing is to let you know that this new version has no external news. You will not find any new options or functionality, and when you update you will find that apparently nothing has changed and that everything remains the same.
However, in its internal code we find clues of a novelty that will arrive in the near future. It is about the possibility of pin widgets to the screen of Android Auto just as we do on the mobile.
The interface of this in-car system already had a widget system for the taskbar. You have it on the side, and when you click on it it goes to the lower area of the screen. But with this change we have something different, something like pinned mini apps from which we can decide the scale.
At the moment, there have been signs in the code that you can only have one widget at a time. There are a small variety of them such as a large clock, stopwatch, time in another part of the world, appointment calendar, weather forecast, etc. They can be adjusted in size. Yes indeed, this feature is not ready yetbut they add it to the source code of the application to work on it in the background.
And why is this going so slow? Well because The Android Auto news goes insideand being a system to use in the car any error in the app can be fatal. That is why in the Android Auto updates They can’t just release a new feature and then improve it, because each failure can cost lives. They do it the other way around, they improve it in the code without releasing it, and then they start making it public.
How to update Android Auto Beta
As this is a beta version, you will still have to wait a few days until it reaches its final versionsince the betas are closed, although in this link You can try your luck in case there is a gap in the beta program, something that doesn’t usually happen.
The other method to test the beta is download and install its APK fileavailable in the Android Auto page on APKMirror. On this website you will have to choose between the ARM and ARM64 architectures, although if your mobile is current it will almost certainly be the ARM64. Once the file is downloaded, you have to install the APK on your Android manually and restart.
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