Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm Oliver in this video I'm going to show you the new version of
of Android auto which is very very exciting which Google will announced at Google I O 2022 but let's
look at the latest update so if you haven't seen my video explaining the previous version please
do watch that explains a lot about the differences and how it works and the various options but we're
in the final testing version right now of cool walk which is the new version of Android auto
and you can see by looking at the screen in front of me here we have some definite changes now along
the Bottom bar here we have our shortcut buttons and it gives us recommendations and it also shows
us the last apps that we've used so it's telling me that I've used Spotify I've used Google Maps
I've use a phone and I've also used Waze you'll also see looking at the screen in front of you
that we have our apps drawer which I can tap on to go to there and then I can tap on that to go
back to this overview that we have we also have the microphone which means that I can
tap it and I can speak to Google with it then we have our settings on the map and we have our
recommendations of where to go on the left we have our widget then right now it's showing us
a widget for Spotify and I can scroll to the side and I can scroll through some of my options here
that I might have listened to recently daily Drive 2000 mix like songs and I can tap on for you and
it will take me to my recommendations this used to be down at the bottom here in the bar before
you now opens this floating window which shows you recommendations that you can go straight into
in the bottom left-hand Corner we have our battery and our 4G connection and if I tap
on Waze for example it will then open up ways for me you notice that I can't have ways in the
windowed mode right now it doesn't support it and you can see that my audio icons are at the
bottom of the screen here which I can tap on to go back to Spotify if I go back to Spotify
because waves were the last app I was using it won't show me Google Maps but if I went to Google
Maps and then I tap on the little button in the corner there it will then allow me to have my
overview and it will give me my recommendations of places which I might want to go to Starbucks
wherever it is and then down below it will show us my music options I can swipe this
away like that and make this full screen for the music but I can't swipe away this widget
this widget will remain unless I go back out of here and go back to Google Maps or alternatively
I can just tap on Google Maps and it'll go full screen
if we tap and go back to here you can see our settings so this is the settings for Google
Maps it gives me this Willow widget overview so I can adjust it on here which is nice to see if
I go back to my main menu I can then see my app so this is the light before you've got your list
of your apps that you have on here and you can open them up so you can still customize this but
it does require opening up your phone app to do that so let's open up my phone app and I don't
know if you can see here I'll put it up against the screen here you can see that I can still
customize the order it is in which is very simple to do and then if we go into our settings here you
can see I can start it automatically start music now I can choose a wallpaper in this setting here
so I take back what I just said and now when I go out of here and I open my apps drawer I will have
a wallpaper back there so if we want to replicate for example the really really cheesy wallpaper on
the new RS3 performance I can do that now and then now I've got a carbon fiber background wallpaper
if we go back to our settings here you can see the options are here that you've always had I
don't think there's anything new in those options there we can show the first line of conversations
we can do our suggestion cards which are the directions and locations and also Spotify
and we can also do night mode and quick control for apps if I turn off quick control for apps
you'll see down below here we only then have at the bottom no matter what I'm doing
I only have the shortcuts I never get the play button the pause button for that unless I go
back to settings if I press the settings button here and now I get our music controls at the
bottom there so it's your choice whether you want those or not either music controls more useful
or are the shortcuts more useful and the other thing too is it will take you
back to the shortcuts when you're not playing music now this doesn't just work with Spotify
also works with other apps Pocket Casts for example and if we go back here Pocket Casts
is now in the corner here and now it's got still got my recommendations for Spotify down the side
here so I think that's probably the Audio Apps apis connecting to whatever is being used by
new version of Android auto you can see that there and it doesn't matter which audio app I
use it will show the widget they're assuming it's tied into the apis for Android auto so remember
the ceiling beta This was meant to have launched in the end of the summer now we're at the end of
the year so who knows when Google are going to actually release this but this is what it looks
like new version of azure also I think it's a big Improvement on larger screens like on
cars with huge displays like I'm at least BMW to use all the latest EVS it looks even better the
bar here can go at the side just like it did in the other version I think which is interesting
is if I go into the app View and click on Waze for example Waze does not support the
panel view so I don't get the option down here the bottom to go to panel view so I'm assuming
these apps need to be updated to support it if I go back to Google Maps I then get back
to my panel view if I tap the little panel button down in the corner there so nice and
simple that is if I open up for example YouTube music and then we just start playing something
for example here now if I open this up now you should see down here this widget
now becomes YouTube music so the widget will change dynamically to the music for whatever
you want and again I can pause it and skip the tracks like that simple enough if I want
to navigate to a location for example I can tap on this and then it will start showing
me the navigation down here and now it will split into two panels here so we
have our left and our right we have one side we have our music one side we have
our navigation now what happens if you get a notification so if I send a text to myself now
like this I've sent a text to myself in a second that should pop up here and now you can see
there's a little widget which appears up there which will say tap to read aloud I can tap it
and it will read the message out aloud or it will show up in my notifications I can also go down
here and tap on messages and then it will appear on my messages and if I tap it it will play as
well so that's very easy to understand now after a few minutes that will go away and the music will
become full screen again in fact if I press play so those notifications will messages like texts or
what that will go into the corn and then disappear in time so that's how cool walk Works let's now
have a look at some of the configuration options here so if I go into my settings here and I click
on settings down here in this version I have the option to have the vertical rail enabled or to
have it not enabled so if I turn it off now and then I unplug Android auto and plug it back in
you will see now that the bar along the bottom just like the previous version of Android auto I
can still go into the same information as before and you can see it shows me my navigation down
at the bottom there which you don't get on the side view I can go back to here I can go back to
my maps and I can see the information just like before but now it's down there now if I want to
change the side here I can go into the settings so if I click on here and I go into settings
and then I click on show more settings on my phone now it lets me change the seat which the driver is
sitting here so left or right or defaulted by the car if I turn this to right the vertical rows on
the left hand side last time so I've turned on the vertical rail but I've now moved it to the
other side of the car so you can see now it's on the other side here so now on the right hand
side we have a vertical Rail and again I can move it back to the left hand side again if I want to
same way I prefer on the left hand side because it's a bit nicer looking because it's not as busy
on this side of the car because that's where the car built-in information is but obviously
the negative of having it on outside of the car is that you have the problem of well the other
problem of having to reach across here to do it now if I unplug this and plug this back in again
you'll see now it's on the left hand side but that is cool walk that is an example of it how
it works on the 2022 Audi E3 this is a 10 inch display it's simple to use these views I think
it's a lot better than the previous version there's no doubt about that you've got more
information on the screen it looks nicer you can take your full screen obviously we need to wait
for the final version for all the apps to support it but I really really like what Google have done
with the new version of Android auto so it's a cool little feature it's a good update it's
worth getting I'm excited for it to be rolled out on to everyone and to use it every day please give
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