Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm Oliver and in this video i'm going to talk to you about android auto
and apple carplay what are the differences why are they different what can you do with them what
doesn't work with them what does work with them and also how do they display on this the beautiful
genesis gv70 which has got a massive widescreen display which is a really great opportunity to
show some of the differences between android auto and apple carplay so what is apple carplay
why is android auto well it's very simple most people nowadays have either an android phone or
an iphone and instead of having to connect via bluetooth to send your music and your media and
your contacts your phone calls google and apple both thought it would be much easier to connect
the phone at the time via usb cable to the car and to project to send essentially certain things on
your phone screen to the car infotainment screen in this case stuff like maps stuff like your music
and obviously stuff like phone calls they came up with that and they are both very different when
they started they've both been adding features and taking away features we're going to talk about
in this video but that is essentially what they do so there's no need to use bluetooth to connect
your phone up you just literally plug your phone in or if you're lucky enough to have a wireless
android auto or apple carplay system it will automatically connect via wi-fi inside your car
and project the maps onto your car this system is far far better than every map system on every car
manufacturer with the exception of one which we'll talk about at the end of this video it's much much
easier for you to put either apple maps or google maps on the screen and know exactly where you are
and then any details contacts any appointments in the calendar they will automatically or they
should automatically appear on your screen as well which is another cool feature of these
and because it's connected to the internet and it's google and apple is always being updated
and adding features so although newest cars that come out do have software updates nowadays
and they have map updates they don't compare in terms of map updates at google for on google maps
and apple have been doing into apple maps always or one of the other various map applications you
can use so there are some big differences there let's start off with android auto when android
auto launcher looked totally different to how it does now when it officially launched the
first time it showed a vertical display down the middle of your screen and it would automatically
put in calendar appointments and anything else reminders and it will show it to you on the screen
like a home screen which is giving you an overview of your day's events it meant if you had a meeting
scheduled for that day and you'd saved it into your phone or even if you would search for it
in google maps it would automatically show off on the screen all you have to do is tap
the little navigate button and it would appear it was a really really easy way of doing things and
in actual fact i really miss it from the current way google do things when apple carplay launched
and it always has stayed this way is essentially a replication of your home screen with massive
icons for your apps now apple a few years ago decided to slightly change that up and they added
a home screen where if you scroll to the right to the left side of your apps you would then get
a overview which showed your maps and your music and your media status so they added a bit of a
home screen you could go between the two and see what was going on in one place you didn't
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a map overview when you open and then you can tap on the home button and you can see your various
apps and that was basically how google decided to do things and then at the bottom of the screen
you've got your voice icon so you can tap on it or you can just hold the button on the steering wheel
to use google and i'm gonna demonstrate the assistant versus siri in a little bit and then
you have your notifications icon at the bottom which will show you if there are any notifications
no notifications right now and then you've got your widget for your media and what's great about
this is it lets you go between your music and then your maps will show up at the bottom here
and then you can tap to go back to your maps if you were to go somewhere you'd then show at the
bottom of the screen so then i can swap between my maps and my music like that i'll use a little
scroll wheel at the bottom if your screen is far away that is what android also let you do
and then i could go between various different apps as well and then on the top of the screen
you would have your signal your wi-fi connection connected to wi-fi the weather and the time now
on certain car manufacturers the way android auto displays is different on this car the genesis gv70
you'll see here that we have a space where it says android auto and it says my phone
and there's nothing else there and then at the side of the screen here we have widgets
you can scroll through on this genesis system now android auto does support widescreen and
different screen ratios but unfortunately most car manufacturers do not support it themselves
there are some exceptions to that bmw and mercedes with their latest infotainment systems do support
different ratio android auto and apple carplay and we're talking here about widescreen different
ratio android auto for whatever reason apple carplay seems to be supported in windscreen
mode on every car manufacturer no issues at all on bmw's it looks different to mercedes
which also looks different than on a mustang mackie which i've also done a video on recently
which has a different display as well so there are differences with what android auto can show on the
different wider screen displays which support on android auto you'll get your widgets down the side
of the screen and still get the full maps which looks a bit more like maybe what carplay is doing
now there is an update to android auto coming soon which will actually change the home screen or add
a home screen to look more like android auto used to and look basically like carplay does now now
that's not out yet maybe if you're watching this video a few months down the line or a year down
the line you'll see that now one of the negatives of this is generally speaking you cannot see your
directions from android auto apple carplay in the center of your digital dials now again there
are some exceptions the newest cars are actually starting to show up turn-by-turn direction so just
a little arrow so they won't show you the format but they will show you an arrow telling you to
turn left to turn right and the latest version from bmw the new idrive system actually will
display android autos maps in the middle of the dashboard which is a fantastic advancement there's
something that was really missing one disadvantage of android auto however is when driving you do
have to limit the number of times you can interact with the screen after a certain number of taps it
will stop you interacting with android auto and google says this is for safety reasons to meet
car safety laws in the countries where android auto is available this is a bit strange because
car play does not have the same limitation you can interact with the screen without the screen
as many times as you want and in fact i would argue it's actually counterproductive in terms
of safety because what you find yourself doing is either unplugging your phone from android auto
to tap through manually on the phone or sitting here frustrated that is making you wait 10 seconds
before you then start tapping on the screen twice as annoyed and then probably get another
safety warning you can of course use your voice but sometimes you just want to tap the screen
so i wish google would remove that restriction from android auto this is what apple carplay looks
on the genesis gv70 now you can see immediately it's full wide screen and it looks very different
from android auto it as i said it's a replication of what you can see on your phone if we slide to
the side you get a widget overview which will show your maps and the internet is a bit dodgy
where i am so that's why it isn't fully giving you that satellite view but you can see clearly
what's going on here you've got your media and you've got your navigation options and then you've
got your quick buttons down the side where you can swap between your most recent apps and then you've
got a button here to go back to your apps and then we got this button here to go back to your
home screen as such so that is what carplay looks like and again we can swipe to the side and we can
see all the apps it looks exactly the same let's do a comparison now between android auto and apple
carplay with the voice assistant so i'm going to give you some examples with google hey google
where is the nearest starbucks
showing results for where is the nearest starbucks
hey siri where is the nearest starbucks here's what i found
so this is using apple maps not google maps
hey siri hey google what is the weather in malibu
right now in malibu it's 17 degrees and sunny today it'll be partly cloudy with
a forecast high of 19 and a low of 14. what's the weather in malibu
it's currently clear in 17 degrees in malibu california the united states expect mostly clear
skies starting in the morning today's high will be 22 degrees and the low will be 15.
my weather data is provided by the weather channel hey google
what is malibu made from
on the website vinepair.com they say malibu is distilled from molasses a sugarcane refinement
by-product there's plenty of cool stuff to know about rum production the key
here is knowing that rum can be made from either sugarcane juice or molasses syrup
the latter a by-product of sugarcane refinement and sugar production hey siri
what is malibu made out of here's what i found from wikipedia.org malibu is a coconut-flavored
liqueur made with caribbean rum and possessing an alcohol content by volume of 21.0 percent
42 proof hey google give me directions to paris
paris is five hours 34 minutes from your location by car in light traffic
hey siri give me directions to paris sorry i can't provide directions for places in namibia hey siri
give me directions to paris okay here's paris france
google what is 577 multiplied by 56 divided by four
the answer is 8078. hey siri what is 577 multiplied by 56 divided by 4.
587 times 56 divided by 4 is 8 218. hey siri
what is 577 multiplied by 56 divided by four 507 times 56 divided by 4 is 7098 hey siri what is 577
multiplied by 56 divided by four sorry i can't show you the result while you're in the car
so i mean you can hear there i asked it three times and it still is not giving me the right
answer which is a bit disappointing hey google who is the president of france
the president of france is emanuel macron hey siri who is the president of france emmanuel
macron is the president of the french republic hey google how do you say i love driving in italian
in italian that's ammo hey siri how do you say i love driving in italian in italian love driving is
hey google play hang on i need to breathe on spotify
hang on by need to breathe sure playing on spotify
so you can see that works straight away on here without any issues whatsoever and i can
scroll through the search results as well to go between the live and the non-live versions
hey siri play hang on by need to breathe on spotify i'll need to access your spotify data
now playing need to breathe on spotify
i turned off the music there because obviously we can't have music playing on youtube because
i'll get copyright notifications but you can see that siri working with spotify
hey google set a reminder for tomorrow at 2pm to check android auto out
all right i'll remind you tomorrow at 2 pm hey siri remind me at two o'clock
tomorrow to check car play out okay your reminder is set for tomorrow so you can see that siri
struggles with voice recognition even though obviously apple sell it as a massive feature of
the iphone and a benefit of using apple carplay it's not as good as the google assistant google
does have an advantage so that's to be expected that's one of the reasons why despite having
an iphone and android phone i would rather use android auto one other disadvantage of carplay
is i cannot go into google maps using siri i have to go into google maps as i'll demonstrate here
and then after i'm in google maps i then have to use the voice controls in google maps
by tapping the search button and then tapping the voice button where is the nearest starbucks
where is the nearest starbucks
so again because it's not natively incorporated into car play using google's voice functionality
doesn't work as well so another disadvantage in my opinion that car play has but anyway that is
car play and that is android auto compared now let's do something else let's talk about
what's coming and another alternative infotainment system so the latest cars from volvo pole star
general motors in america and other manufacturers to come run on something called android automotive
now android automotive is android built into the car infotainment system it means the whole system
is running on android it means that google maps your music and everything is the full android
apps it means a google assistant is built into the car it means that you have everything you can want
including the maps in front of you on the digital driver's display without having to connect your
phone now the disadvantage of that is if you have an iphone carplay is not as yet available on any
infotainment system that runs android automotive yet the same thing actually with android also some
people like to have azure auto on top of android automotive i don't really know the point of that
but again not available car manufacturers such as volvo and pulsar said it is coming and i'm sure
that is the case too if you look at the latest cars from gm in america such as the hama ev that
also runs on android automotive and there is an icon for android auto and an icon for carplay
on there so there are ways to put them onto your car if you want to use them however i would say
if you have an android phone you don't really need android automotive because google will sign you in
to your account and everything will already be pre-populated there so there isn't really
a benefit to do that however the disadvantage is right now if you use android automotive you
do have to use bluetooth to connect your phone to your car that is the only way to get those phone
calls onto your car and that is a disadvantage it works obviously fine but it doesn't take advantage
of the capability that you're getting azure with an apple carplay so to summarize android auto and
apple carplay allow you to send information your music your phone calls your contacts your messages
from your phone to the car by plugging them in or in some cases wirelessly using wireless android
auto and wireless carplay different cars support different kinds of carplay and android auto
they may or may not have wireless connections they might require you to plug it in with usb
they may or may not have wired screen or different aspect ratio versions of android auto and apple
carplay but fundamentally the functionality is the same you can put your phone onto your car
google assistant has a better voice system than siri which means you'll be able to access your
phone calls and everything better but obviously if you have an iphone then you don't have much choice
in the matter you will obviously learn what siri is good at and what it's not good at and it will
improve as it has improved over time just like apple maps doesn't have as much information as
google maps all over the world but it is coming as apple update maps as well so that is the overview
my preference android auto because it works better with voice when driving you don't want
to be repeating yourself i hope you enjoyed this guide to android auto and apple carplay
this is a genesis gv70 as i said and watch my full review on this car
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