Android Auto app development today — a case study from building navigation apps
summary
Yahoo! Car Navigation was ported to Android Auto and made production-ready using Google's Desktop Head Unit emulator to test screen sizes and rotary-controller flows. The app's navigation UI uses Android Auto constrained templates (Map with Content, Navigation), supports up to four action strips and a five-template stack, and drives the instrument cluster by calling NavigationManager.updateTrip with Set Maneuver and Set Q while handling Navigate intents, day/night modes, and simulator configuration edits for verification.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07What is Android Auto
- 4:21Yahoo Car Navigation demo
- 5:23Agenda
- 6:06Development basics
- 9:40Navigation screen templates
- 14:21Simulator setup
- 17:50Screen size handling
- 19:14Development guidelines
- 21:19Day/night modes
- 22:02Navigation start/stop
- 23:06Instrument cluster integration
- 27:45Intent handling
- 30:15Rotary mode support
- 32:10Key takeaways
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