Google’s new Android Auto interface works with any screen size

Android Auto, Google’s automotive interface app for Android, is getting a brand new, extra versatile design at Google I/O. Android Auto beforehand demanded a reasonably inflexible display screen facet ratio. It couldn’t deal with issues like massive, vertically oriented automotive screens, and would typically resort to pillar boxing or letterboxing the UI to maintain an affordable format. Now, Google says the interface is “constructed to adapt to any display screen measurement” because of a brand new panel design.

Google says “there are three essential functionalities that drivers prioritize of their vehicles: navigation, media and communication,” and the brand new Android Auto design places every of these interfaces in its personal panel. Maps will get the largest, essential panel, media and communication panels get stacked subsequent to one another, and there is a combo standing/navigation bar. To accommodate the million completely different display screen sizes, these things could be organized in no matter orientation works finest within the automotive.

One instance, near the present Android Auto configuration, reveals the combo bar oriented vertically towards the aspect of the display screen, adopted by a vertical stack of the message and media panels, then a giant Google Maps panel. One other instance of a extra vertical display screen design reveals a giant Google Maps panel on high of the message and media panels, with the combo bar on the underside. Issues could be organized to suit.

The brand new interface will probably be out “this summer time.”