Other driving-related apps

  • Android for Cars templates help create app experiences for driver journeys, such as finding points of interest or communicating with home devices.

  • The Android for Cars App Library provides driving-optimized, parked-variant, and parked-only templates for use in Android Auto and AAOS.

  • Approved app categories for the Android for Cars App Library currently include point-of-interest and IoT.

  • Various templates like Grid, List, and Search are available to design in-vehicle app experiences.

  • Sample flows demonstrate how templates can be combined for different in-vehicle app scenarios.

Android for Cars provides templates that let you create a variety of app experiences to aid driver journeys, from finding parking and charging options to communicating with home devices while on the road.

The Android for Cars App Library includes driving-optimized templates (some with maps, drawn by the app library), as well as templates with parked variants or a parked-only focus. By combining these templates in task flows, you can design experiences that work for both Android Auto and AAOS in a wide range of in-vehicle scenarios.

Currently, approved app categories for the Android for Cars App Library (other than the navigation category, discussed in Navigation apps) include point-of-interest (such as parking and charging) and IoT.

Get started

To learn how to design apps with the templates in the Android for Cars App Library, see Build apps with templates.

Relevant templates include:

Examples

To see how the templates can be assembled into a range of in-vehicle app experiences, check out the following sample flows:

UX requirements

Apps need to meet the global requirements for templated apps, as well as the requirements for their app category and for the specific templates used in the task flows.