Summary

This course is deprecated.

Reach your users while they're out and about by extending your Media or Messaging app to Android Auto! As you'll learn in this course, making your app available in the car is as easy as extending your existing code. This course explains how to get started and then covers Media and Messaging apps in detail.

This course is part of the Ubiquitous Computing series. Designed as standalone short courses, you can take any course on its own, or take them all!

• Android Wear Development
• Android TV and Google Cast Development
• Android Auto Development [this course]

Expected Learning

If you're already an Android developer, you're only a few extensions away from having your existing Media or Messaging app work on Android Auto as well. Take this course to learn how easy it is to bring your existing app to the car.

Syllabus

Introduction

Overview of the course structure and goals, and introduction to the sample app.

Auto

Part 1 - Messaging App

Part 2 - Media App

Extend and test your apps for Auto.

Required Knowledge

To get the most out of this course, you should have prior experience developing Android apps. If you lack this experience, please take Developing Android Apps prior to enrolling in this one. We also recommend taking Advanced Android App Development.

To follow along with course activities, you must have access to the latest release of Android Studio.

We share code through Github, so you must be familiar with using Github to access code. Take our course on Using Git and Github if you lack this background.