A few months later, the company backtracked and said they would be releasing a separate app called 'Android Auto for Phone Screens.' That app eventually launched, which is where we're at today (though we're still waiting for Google Assistant's Driving Mode). So what's going on with Android Auto for phones, anyway? A little over a year ago, Google announced the phone app would be dropped in favor of Google Assistant's Driving Mode. Google Maps can share destinations to the connected cars navigation. We should expect the Maps UI in the standalone app to adopt this behavior as well. Implementations of some Android Auto features as unofficial IDrive apps - GitHub. Again, this new UI is rolling out through Google Maps v10.45 ( download APK), but it's only visible through Android Auto for Phone Screens. You can pull up the menu and still mostly see where you're going.

Rather than stretching the full width and blocking a lot of the Google Maps view, the menus and banners are pushed to the side. The menus and banners that appear at the bottom of the screen now 'float.' This means they aren't tied to the width of the screen, which becomes important in landscape mode.

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