But, despite being a common feature behind Android Auto Wheel, it had one major shortcoming: the app was only available in a limited number of countries, at least officially, so users couldn’t enable it in their car regardless of the Android device. They were using.
It will finally get its attention this week, as Google announces the biggest expansion of Android Auto Tona ever, with the company bringing the app to no less than 36 new countries.
In other words, Android Auto Tone is now officially supported in many more regions, many of them in Europe, including Sweden, Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.
Furthermore, Google says it is also working to expand Android Auto Tone outside of Europe, so that users in Angola and Botswana will receive the app in the coming months. Google customers in Thailand and Indonesia are also officially getting Android Auto, according to a Google announcement.
However, the countries included in this list will not receive Android Auto Toe overnight, as the whole process is slow. So it may still take a while until Android Auto Toe appears in your local store (if you use an older Android device) or if you have Android 10 or 11 installed you can enable it on your smartphone.
In the meantime, pretty much anyone can use Android Auto in their car which is nothing more than a stand-alone APK installer they can find here. Of course, this means that they are doing the whole thing unofficially, so if something goes wrong there will be no support for Android Auto Toe, but with a little luck, everything will be flawless, and no help will be needed.
Here is the full list of where Android Auto will go live as part of this extension.
- Albania
- Angola
- Armenia
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Malta
- Moldova
- The Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Sweden
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
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