I saw that there is a DHU for Testing Android Auto Apps during development.
At the same time, there is an Emulator with system images from Volvo and Polestar to use Android Automotive in Android Studio.
I found this on Google Android Auto webpage:
You enable Android Auto to connect with your phone app by creating
services that Android Auto uses to display a driver-optimized
interface to the driver. You reuse these services for your Android
Automotive OS app, but users do not install your phone app on their
cars.
I was wondering if I develop some app for Android Auto, how complicated is the process of transforming this app to use it in Android Emulator or as an Android Automotive App?
The whole let's say business logic behind Apps should stay the same and services, according to Google, should work on Automotive as well? So the only difference is in UI?
Thanks!
Take media app as an example
It isn't complex, there is step-by-instructions at https://developer.android.com/cars to port your Android Auto app to Android Automotive OS.
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What are the differences between Android Automotive, Android Auto, and Android for mobile phones (from a user perspective and architecturally / technically)?
They are different products.
Android Auto - to simplify things - you can think about it as an app which runs on your phone, an app which is streaming (casting) apps to your car's unit. Android Auto runs on your mobile phone, all apps are casted from your mobile phone.
Android Automotive - it's open source OS (just like standard Android) but it is created for manufacturers. They can build with it the whole infotainment system. It can be heart of your vehicle. Every manufacturer can use it differently. So it's like standard Android but for cars.
But also looking at standard Android (for mobile). Using Android (which is open source) doesn't mean you have with it all Google serivces etc. Open Source version of Android Automotive and Android OS (for mobile) doesn't contain Google Services and apps.
Just like in mobile phones - it depends on manufacturer if it will bring Google Services with it.
There are manufacturers using it already with Google Services (Volvo, Polestar) but there are also many using it without Google apps.
I have some experience in developing mobile applications in Android Studio.
I have to develop an android application on Embedded Android Board.
I have some questions regarding embedded Android system app development. Is the application development in Embedded android same as mobile application development ?
Can I develop Embedded Android apps using Android Studio and debug them similar to mobile android apps ?
I used Kotlin for mobile android apps. Can I use Kotlin for embedded android apps also or is Java must ?
Do the embedded android support USB camera and keyboard like windows instead of touch screen ?
The boards that I have come across are Odroid and Tinker. Is it okay to use either of these or are there more options ?
Thank you.
You can install any app by ADB Shell to check application compatibility. About supporting usb camera and other devices you must ask Tech Support of the product you use and/or check on Product Support forums.
As the title said. Just need to be curious, last time I tried using Snapp Automotive's Android Automotive build for Raspberry Pi and it was able to detect APKs, however, it can't install APKs. Is Android Automotive based on Android?
Yes. Android Automotive (AAOS) is Android. e.g. Volvo uses Android and Google services for their cars. PTAL https://developer.volvocars.com/android-automotive/ link for more detail for Volvo cars. Renault also announced EV car with Android Automotive. See https://9to5google.com/2021/09/06/android-automotive-renault-megane-e-tech-electric/
In the new Android 7.0 android released a new feature of Picture-in-picture. As mentioned in the documentation:
Android TV users can now watch a video in a pinned window in a corner of the screen when navigating within or between apps.
I want to develop an android mobile app, that will play videos, and i want to enable the app users to minimized the video and continue to use my app - exactly what the Picture-in-picture feature enables in Android TV.
My question: can i create an android TV project, and support the Picture-in-picture feature in and android mobile device running android 7.0?
No, you can't. The 1st Android version supporting PIP is 8.0.
I am developing apps for ios and android sdk. Is there any tutorial that explains how to port an existing android app to blackberry, and to publish it to the blackberry market?
I have no clue as far as blackberry is concerned. I saw a recent video on RIM playing an android app on an blackberry playbook. Is there is a possiblity of porting an android app in blackberry playbook? Does the porting only narrowed to blackberry playbook or the all other blackberry products?
The android player works on the QNX platform which is what playbook has. You can port your android app to run on the android player fairly easily and test it on the playbook. when the new Blackberry 10 phones are launched, they will run QNX and your ported android app should run on it.
Although the android player has limitations. Among several limitations, one I can recollect is it cannot do C2DM.The others are
It cannot run
anything built using the Native Development Kit
apps containing only App Widgets
apps containing more than one activity tied to the Launcher.
any packages which rely on Google Maps
in-app billing services,
Android's text-to-speech engine
I dont think it is worth spending time and money to port your android app to blackberry devices pre 10 as RIM has announced that they are killing java on blackberry. So best bet is to use android player and port your app to run on it so it works on playbook,blackberry 10 onwards.
Porting existing android app to blackberry is explained in below tutorial
http://www.whitesof.com/?q=node/37