What's New?

December 2023

(December 6) Added a new page to describe the new features contained in the release of Android Automotive 14 QPR1.

October 2023

(October 4) Added these new pages to describe features released in Android 14:

• Android Automotive 14 Release Details
• Android Automotive Multi-User on Multiple Displays
• Audio:
  • Audio Focus
  • Car Audio Configuration
  • Audio Control HAL
  • Multi-Zone Audio Routing
  • Car Audio Plugin Service
  • Volume Management
  • Connect an Input Device in AAOS
  • Microphone Input
  • Audio Power Management
  • Audio Configuration AAOS Flags
• Set up Remote Access
• Unbundled Apps Release Notes for Car-apps-release-7
• Vehicle Hardware Abstraction Layer (VHAL):
  • VHAL Interface
  • Property Configurations
  • Supported System Properties
  • Special Properties
  • SEAT and STEERING_WHEEL Properties
  • ADAS Vehicle Properties
  • Reference Implementation
  • Debug the VHAL
  • Use VHAL with the Native Client
  • HIDL VHAL Migration Guide
  • HIDL VHAL Interface

July 2023

(July 18) Added Car Service Feature Control to describe the optional car control features you can enable with RROs or the VHAL.

(July 13) Added Extend VHAL Property Descriptions in the Emulator. Learn how to view information about VHAL properties, such as names, descriptions, and the meaning of the values, in an emulator window.

June 2023

(June 5) Added Android Automotive 13 QPR3 Release Details.

April 2023

(April 20) Added Driver Assistance Location Bypass API to describe how to use this new API to access the location of allowlisted, Android-bundled, driver assistance apps.

(April 26) Added OEM Design Tokens. Design tokens represent the small, repeated design decisions that make up a design system's visual style and replace static values with self-explanatory names.

(April 20) Added Driver Assistance Location Bypass API to describe how to use this new API to access the location of allowlisted, Android-bundled, driver assistance apps.

March 2023

(March 23)

• Updated the Car UI Library Release Notes to describe changes made to car-ui-lib 2.4.0 and car-ui-lib-plugin-apis 1.3.0.
• Added a new page to describe updates provided in the release of Android 13 QPR2.

(March 16)

• Added the Notification Access and Notification Listener Policy.
• Added OEM Custom Inputs to create new Car input events for new and non-standard Android features.

December 2022

(December 2) Added Broadcast radio Hardware Abstraction Layer in Implementing Radio to describe the data structures needed to implement broadcast radio (such as AM/FM and digital audio broadcasting (DAB) radio) at the hardware level.

November 2022

(November 4) Added a page to describe the new requirement on the minimum version of `car-ui-lib-plugin-apis` for compatibility with Google Automotive Services (GAS) apps. To learn more, see Appendix C, Minimum Compatible Version for Car UI Plugin API.

October 2022

(October 22) Added a new page to list the new major features provided in Android Automotive 13, QPR1Android Automotive 13 QPR1 Release Details.

(October 14) Added a new section for Watchdog, which contains three new articles. The Watchdog module consists of a native daemon and a CarService component.

• Monitoring Flash Memory Usage
• Collecting Performance Data
• Monitoring System Health