We'd like to have the confidence that things look good on actual hardware and on target devices before publishing. This seems like a frustrating chicken-and-egg problem. That app available to Android Auto users.īased on this, is at all possible to run Auto apps on hardware before they've already been published and approved through Google Play? If your app is approved, Google Play makes Submits your app for review against the Auto App Quality criteria and The Auto documentation is still a little bit thin, but I'm gathering based on some wording I've seen that Auto apps get some special flag (or similar) added by Google Play when they pass review:īefore making the app available to Android Auto users, Google Play FEATURES Consolidate all your music from different media providers (Your android device, Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Subsonic, Kodi) in a fast, beautiful and intuitive interface. However, we can't see our development app on the actual device. We are able to use the CarPlay app successfully on the head unit, and we are able to use published Auto apps on the head unit. We also have a stereo head unit that supports both Auto and CarPlay.

We are able to successfully test the Auto application using the Android Media Browser simulator as directed by the Android developer documentation. We are adding Android Auto and iOS CarPlay support to the existing Android/iOS versions of an app.

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