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Android Automotive 24Q4
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This page summarizes new major features provided in Android Automotive 24Q4.
Features
Car framework
Memory usage profiling and reporting.
Car Watchdog memory profiling, which monitors
and records system-wide memory usage during system events.
AAOS concurrent multi-user (CMU) support. Initial MVP for
Concurrent Multi-User.
System UI and core apps
Media design refresh. A UI refresh to demonstrate Google's best-in-class
Media experience and design to OEMs. This refresh affects landscape and
portrait references for the Media app.
Enable GMS Core Location Time Zone Detection (LTZP) in Automotive.
Provide geolocation timezone detection to devices with cellular or Wi-Fi
connections. To learn more, see
Location time zone detection.
Updates to the Location Privacy Settings UI. Updates driver assistance
and ADAS-related text strings.
AAOS Settings microphone privacy page update. Updated the microphone
Settings to be consistent with changes made to Location and Camera
Privacy Settings.
Connectivity
- Bluetooth. Users can now trigger Bluetooth pairing by touching and
holding the vehicle's push-to-talk (PTT) button.
Compliance
Android compliance testing was executed on the internal reference hardware.
Test suites run for this release include CTS, CTS-V, ATS, ATS-V, STS, VTS and
CTS on GSI.
No known failures requiring a fix either in Android 15 QPR release or the
Android 15 test branch (android15-tests-dev) were detected.
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Last updated 2025-04-08 UTC.
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