Ten years in the past, Android obtained lots greater. Not simply because it crossed over a billion energetic customers, however as a result of in 2014, we prolonged Android (then primarily out there on telephones and tablets) to a few new platforms: Android Auto in your automobile, Android TV in your sensible TV and Android Put on in your smartwatch. The brand new platforms launched Android to tons of of tens of millions of recent gadgets and introduced Google providers to extra locations.
“Our mission for the reason that launch of the primary Android machine in 2008 has been to work with the business and construct for everybody, in all places — to supply folks with selection,” says Android Ecosystem President Sameer Samat. “And in 2014, we determined to take that to the following stage.”
Automobiles, smartwatches and TVs could sound like three extraordinarily totally different classes of gadgets, with such vastly totally different {hardware} and kind components that it’s laborious to think about they’d share any software program DNA, not to mention the identical base working system. However Android’s open platform, developer-friendly design and suppleness made it an ideal match for brand spanking new locations.
Android hits the highway
In 2010, Google Maps added turn-by-turn navigation, and virtually in a single day, driving grew to become wildly extra environment friendly.
“Smartphones weren’t designed for use in a car by a driver. So we checked out this as a possibility to create a safer and extra seamless related expertise,” says Patrick Brady, Android Auto VP. “We realized we might leverage the computer systems in everybody’s pockets that had an ecosystem of tens of millions of apps utilized by over a billion folks. So we tailored Android — and its apps — to work in vehicles.”
Android Auto’s method was easy: Join your telephone to your automobile show and also you’ll see your Android apps on display screen, prepared to provide you instructions, make a hands-free name or play music out of your favourite playlists.
