I have eight years of experience covering Android, with a focus on apps, features, and platform updates. I love looking at even the minute changes in apps and software updates that most people would ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Google is working to expand video support for Android Auto and Automotive interfaces. An early-access Android Automotive feature ...

Google first started rolling out a redesigned media player on Android Auto earlier this year with a squiggly Material 3 Expressive look, but it’s been slow to reach everyone. As of this week, though, ...

Watching YouTube in the car has so far been banned for an obvious reason. Keeping your eyes on anything else but the road can be dangerous, and if you believe you can refrain from looking at the ...

A new change in Android Auto is in development, with the buttons for the media player potentially being shuffled around which could impact muscle memory. Typically with media players, buttons are laid ...

The new Android Auto music player UI appears to have been rolled back for some beta users. Users say the updated design broke steering wheel media controls in certain cars. While many liked the new ...

Largely gone are the days when we had glove boxes full of mixtapes and CDs to listen to music when driving a car. Navigation was up to how well we knew the roads. Now, you can't really buy a modern ...

It's not a secret that Google is experimenting with various ideas on the Android Auto front, and one of the most controversial and which nobody liked concerned the background of the media player.

Android Auto can make your driving a lot more exciting, but it also comes with the risk of distraction if you don’t know what not to use in it. Listening to music isn’t one of those things you shouldn ...