Android Auto could be about to turn up the heat (and AC) on car comfort

• Android Auto’s latest beta contains currently unused text strings referencing vehicle climate controls.
• Currently, Android Auto does not offer any way to directly adjust in-vehicle climate settings.
• The initial references are rather sparse, and it’s not at all yet clear how this could fit into the system’s UI.

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For as much as we love Android Auto, and the way it brings some of our favorite apps to our vehicles, it just really doesn’t feel as tightly integrated as Android on pretty much any other platform. From phones to TVs, Android on other devices tends to offer reasonably thorough access to the underlying hardware, but with vehicles, Android Auto exists almost on another level, largely distinct from your car itself — this is exactly why we have the split between Android Auto and Android Automotive. Google could still be making headway on better Auto integration, though, and a recent teardown sheds some light on what form that may take.

Cracking open the newly released Android Auto 13.9 beta, the crew over at 9to5Google identified a series of text strings that quite plainly reference vehicle climate controls:

from Android Authority https://ift.tt/JEjp8UF