Gadgetory

so what we're showing right now is an overview screen we also have navigation communication media and car wraps and what you're seeing at the moment are contextually relevant suggestions in this case we have a navigation card so eight minutes to home Sally so a recent phone call that I received and these are all just presented to me when I connect the phone so this is google play music if i could play you'll see the media coming through the car speaker system and all the controls that I would expect to to see from google play music here I have an overflow screen so things like thumbs-up thumbs-down start radio things that I would typically be able to do in google play music on any of my devices one of the things we're really excited by is all of the party apps that we've got so everything you see on this menu here are actually apps that are installed on my phone right now so as I scroll through i could pick from any of these and what you'll see is that these applications actually have customized you is so if i look at say joyride I'll see a very different menu to what we just saw in google play music but it's really easy for the developer to do this so they get control of things like the color the iconography the menu structure to provide an experience that's really like their app but when in the car and if we look at phone you can see here people that I've recently called or received calls from can place calls to them really easily so I can tap this person to place a phone call so obviously you're in a car you want to go somewhere in this car this button on the steering wheel to activate the microphone so if I tap there's navigate to alamo square so without having to think about where I'm going very much I can simply tell the cow where I want to go now what you can see over on the left is a card showing you the next turn you're going to make so not only can we say that you should turn right and point to the mail but we can actually tell you you can use any of the three rightmost lanes so we launched lane gardens recently in google maps navigation and we brought that to android order we take a look at the rest of Google Maps what we've done is taken aspects of the product that make it really easy to use and brought them to the car so for example under suggestions I can see things like home will work which I can just get to really easily businesses i might have searched for and interacted with recently in maps i can also pull up categories for example places i might want to park or get gas which is really easy to do while you're in the car and then finally we can turn road traffic on or off for the entire system and then if you're parked and safe to do so you can pull the keyboard up and start typing just as you would on a mobile phone so I could start typing it's a photo head to the airport and you see a suggestion can appear and then you can navigate there and of course I can say anything that I would to google so i can press the button find starbucks seven mile and then I can see those in google maps in ever get there really easily so if i receive the text message while i'm driving i'll get one of those heads up notifications at the top the message gets read out i can tap the microphone button and then say reply it's up to the car manufacturer is how they want to hook up the controls on the steering wheel begin to the car system so in this particular car the the microphone button is hooked up which uses the cars microphone but you could have other cars with different controls that control different aspects of the product and from a developer's point of view it's really a great thing because when i build a music app i don't have to think does it have a touchscreen to have a rotary dial does that have a d-pad i can simply build the app once and not have to worry too much about the controls