There are two types of parking apps. The first helps you find a parking spot in a crowded city or town. The second helps you find your car in a large parking area. Thankfully, our list includes both types of apps. Apps like these are especially helpful when you’re in massive areas like cities, amusement … Read more
If you’ve been an avid user of Spotify since 2019, you’re likely familiar with the app’s Car View mode, created to enhance the safety of users who enjoy listening to audio while driving. It eliminated all the distracting elements of the regular Spotify user interface, instead leaving in only primary functions to allow users to … Read more
They’re in fobs or on phones, and digital or “smart,” and they can do far more than just open doors and start the engine.
We’ve all hand-washed our cars before (and regretted it), right? We get lured in by fond childhood memories of soaping up the family station wagon. (It’ll be so nostalgic—I’d always spray Dad with the hose!) And then we’re sold by the idea of saving a coupla bucks. (Twenty bucks for a car wash these days?! … Read more
Car insurance is an important thing. In fact, in the US, you have to have it when you drive. The laws are slowly making so that you don’t actually need to carry insurance with you. In fact, every US state (plus the District of Columbia) except New Mexico allows this technology. Some car insurance apps … Read more
We buy tons of stuff through apps already. Why not cars? Car shopping websites have been around for ages. Giants like AutoTrader and CarMax have had websites for years. It’s only been recent that good car shopping apps started popping up. Going to a dealer is still the best way to look at cars. You … Read more
Posted by Madan Ankapura, Product Manager Building on our effort to enable developers to create app experiences across navigation, parking, and charging apps via Android for Cars App Library as part of Jetpack, today we’re announcing the availability of CarHardwareManager APIs as part of version 1.1 alpha02 to get developer feedback. CarHardwareManager can be used … Read more
Tesla has quietly updated its iPhone app to add a slew of new features — not least new iOS 14 Home screen widgets in two different sizes. Released as version 4.0.0, the new Tesla app can be downloaded from the App Store now, although you’ll obviously need some sort of Tesla product for it to … Read more
There are a bunch of different types of car games. Some are simulations, others are racing games, and others still are puzzle games. The genre grew rather quickly on mobile and it’s one of the most popular genres in all of mobile. Racing games especially have some of the best graphics of any mobile game … Read more