Android Auto’s latest beta brings full Android game support

Google is adding gaming enactment to Android Auto, with titles including Candy Crush Soda Saga and Angry Birds 2 playable from compatible cars’ touchscreens. The caller diagnostic is included successful the beta version of Android 14.1, which is rolling retired to testers now.

Only 4 games are presently supported, with Candy Crush and Angry Birds joined by Farm Heroes Saga and Beach Buggy Racing. To play them connected the car’s show you request to person the games installed connected your telephone first, and for evident reasons they’re lone disposable portion the car is parked. 9to5Google tested it out, and recovered that erstwhile you displacement retired of park, “the crippled closes instantly and is grayed retired wrong the app drawer and app switcher.”

This summation besides marks the archetypal clip that fullscreen apps person been disposable successful Android Auto, though it’s not wide if the enactment volition beryllium extended to different types of app. Gaming and fullscreen enactment brings Android Auto person successful enactment to the bundle acquisition connected cars with Google built-in, which already enactment a wider scope of games to play portion parked.

Gaming enactment successful Android Auto was announced by Google earlier this period arsenic portion of its March diagnostic drop, but the institution hasn’t said erstwhile the enactment volition permission beta. These aren’t the archetypal games disposable connected Android Auto, with a tiny fig of basal titles moving connected HTML5 added successful 2021 arsenic portion of Google’s GameSnacks service.