I have eight years of experience covering Android, with a focus on apps, features, and platform updates. I love looking at even the minute changes in apps and software updates that most people would ...

From Spotify to local files.

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Google is working to expand video support for Android Auto and Automotive interfaces. An early-access Android Automotive feature ...

Watching YouTube in the car has so far been banned for an obvious reason. Keeping your eyes on anything else but the road can be dangerous, and if you believe you can refrain from looking at the ...

Gemini is at the heart of Android Auto now — combine that with a new media player UI, and it's pretty useful.

The "YouTube on Android Auto" drama is about to come to an end, as Google has just confirmed that it has unlocked video apps on Android Auto. We've known for a while that this was bound to happen, as ...

Google is rolling out a redesign to the media player on Android Auto alongside the latest widely available updates. Android Auto 16.0 started rolling out to beta users earlier this month, but has more ...

Google is widely rolling out the new Media Playback template for Android Auto, bringing a consistent UI to music player apps like Spotify and YouTube Music. The update features a wavy progress bar and ...

RockPlayer was one of the first media players for Android to support a wide range of video codecs by incorporating the open source FFmpeg software. There’s a free, ad-supported version of RockPlayer ...