{"id":49028,"date":"2026-07-13T21:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=49028"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:33:05","slug":"android-auto-may-be-preparing-a-smarter-media-player-for-your-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=49028","title":{"rendered":"Android Auto may be preparing a smarter media player for your dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credit: <\/span>Andy Walker \/ Android Authority<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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  • Android Auto is testing a redesigned dashboard media card with centered album art and a blurred background.<\/li>\n
  • The new layout can add extra controls, such as like, shuffle, and repeat, depending on the music app.<\/li>\n
  • Whether these additional buttons appear depends on the head unit\u2019s display.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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    Google announced a broad Android Auto makeover at I\/O 2026, and some of those changes are now beginning to reach drivers. For example, just today we saw that Google Maps\u2019 new Immersive Navigation interface appears to be slowly rolling out, bringing 3D buildings and clearer road features to the dashboard. We\u2019ve now found another visual update that wasn\u2019t clearly shown in Google\u2019s I\/O announcement materials: a redesigned media card for the Android Auto dashboard.<\/p>\n

    You\u2019re reading an Authority Insights<\/strong> story. Authority Insights brings you all the latest exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage from the Android Authority<\/em> team that you won\u2019t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Credit: Andy Walker \/ Android Authority TL;DR Android Auto is testing a redesigned dashboard media card with centered album art and a blurred background. The new layout can add extra controls, such as like, shuffle, and repeat, depending on the music app. Whether these additional buttons appear depends on the head unit\u2019s display. Google announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,424,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-auto","category-authority-insights","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}