Android Auto and car radio are about to join hands to cooperate rather than compete. The Android Auto APK contains references to: Car FM radio will be integrated into Android Auto somehow.

Both are free, although Android Auto is displayed on the “car radio” (or at least on the screen), which can make managing the radio a bit confusing when using Android Auto. Maybe in the future the vehicle’s FM radio is integrated as another application or at least within the Android Auto multimedia controls.

Radio in Android Auto

If you want to listen to the radio on Android Auto, you need to: Use the apps on your mobile phone and that normally happens via streaming, like TuneIn Radio. That doesn’t make much sense when the car has its own radio and antenna, and a decade later Google has finally decided to act on it.

The APK for the latest version of Android Auto includes references to FM radio in text such as “HD Radio”, “FM”, “AM”, “Radio program not available” or “Car radio”. It’s not currently active, but the fact that it specifically says “car radio” makes it clear what you’re looking for. Integrate or interact with the car radio.

TuneIn for Android Automotive

Exactly how it will work is still a mystery. It could appear as a new app in Android Auto or just Integrate radio controls into media playback controls This eliminates the need to “exit Android Auto” to access the radio on the vehicle screen.

What is certain is that it will be so. One of the great new features of Android Auto It also introduces something so fundamental to the system that it seems hard to believe it wasn’t there all along. Now we’ll just have to wait and see until we can test it and know exactly how it works.

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