Android Auto 13.0 advances the development of ‘Car media’, the function that will allow you to control the vehicle’s radio

Android has launched Android Auto 13.0 which, in addition to adding corrections, advances the development of a new feature referred to as ‘Car media’ with which will allow you to control the car radio both AM and FM stations and local multimedia files, directly from this platform.

Android Auto is the operating system that allows Google to bring the experience of an Android mobile to a vehicle through an application that gathers information and some of the applications installed on the device, and displays them on the car screen.

In this sense, at the time of play multimedia contentusers can use Android Auto to use smartphone music applications such as Spotify or Apple Music. However, this system It will also allow you to directly control the car’s local radio stations and multimedia files..

This has been detailed by the media 9to5Google after analyze the code of the latest update, Android Auto 13.0which is now available to all users through Google Play with new bug and security fixes.

Specifically, as shown in the analyzed code of the ‘app’, Google has introduced lines with terms that refer to the ‘Car media’ functionthat is, car multimedia support. This is the case of: ‘Car Media’, ‘%1$s is not available.’ o ‘Unknown’, which refer to this new function.

As detailed therein, this option will allow users choose car multimedia sourcesand will show the name of the song being played or, if you cannot access this information, it will show a message on screen as ‘Unknown’.

Google has been working on this option since previous versions of Android Autospecifically, in versions 12.3, 12.4 and 12.7, according to the media cited above, in which lines of code and icons related to radio control. However, it is a tool in developmentso it is unknown when it will be available to users.