Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm oliver in this video i'm going to show you the new version of
android auto codename cool walk in this video i'm going to show you what it looks like how it works
now just a little proviso here this is a beta version this is not the final version so there
may be some changes which happen between now and then but this is a first look at the new version
of android auto which is very very exciting which google will announce at google i o 2022
let's look at the design now on the screen here you can see i have this new panel designed so
it's got my google maps in a little square there we've got some suggested destinations and then
underneath that i've got our music on this version i have the option of having the bar for the
navigation down the left or the right depending on what side my steering wheel and the seat is on
and i can change that in the settings or having it along the bottom now i've chosen to have it along
the side here this is the infotainment screen on the 2022 audi rs3 we've got a 10 inch screen and
you can see down here we have our audi navigation icons if you have the bar on the bottom which i
will show you this space for the information on the display so i think it looks better like this
the way this works is very very simple down the slide here we have our notifications tray
which will show there's any notifications just like previously we have our google assistant
button and we have our apps button if i tap my apps button i can scroll through just like you
used to before normally if i tap back to this we go back to our overview if i want to make google
maps full page i just do this and it will become full screen and then i can see everything on here
like before and then i can tap the little icon down there and it will go back to the panel view
so it's very very easy to see how this works in this widget here we have our music i can tap
on the play and pause button and it will play or pause or i can skip forwards and backwards
very very simple the previous version of android also had a little widget with a pause and play
button and forward and skip at the bottom here so it's slightly easier up here we have some
suggestions of places i might want to go to and we've got our map overview if i want to
make this full screen i just tap on it like this and it'll go full screen as simple as that now one
thing 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 button to go to the 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
to 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 now i can tap it
and it will read the message out loud 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 if i press play so those notifications for messages like texts or
what that will go into the corner 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 for but now it's down there now if i want to change
the side here i can go into the settings so 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 in so left or right or defaults up by the car if i turn this to right the vertical rails 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 that side of the car
is that you have the problem of well the problem of having to reach across here to do it now if i
plug this and plug this back in again you'll see now it's on the left hand side so 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 easy to use 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 it full screen obviously we
need to wait for the final version of 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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