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                  <p style="width:450px">Display and control your Android app in vehicles.
                   Integrate your content with easy-to-use APIs and let Android Auto take
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            <div class="landing-h1">Extending Android to Cars</div>
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            <p>When users connect their Android phones to compatible vehicles, Android Auto
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            interact with Auto by using the vehicle's input controls, touch display, and voice.</p>
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            and extend them to cars with the Auto SDK.
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            <p>Write your apps without having
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             Android Auto displays different UIs for several app categories that let users focus on the road.
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            <p>Android Auto defines the user interaction model for all
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            <p>In the coming months, we’ll be releasing the Android Auto SDK, which includes APIs
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              of the SDK will provide APIs for music, podcast, live radio, and audio
              news apps, as well as limited voice actions.</p>

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