Having Android Auto in the car gives you many advantages : it facilitates GPS navigation and control of music playback, it allows you to use your mobile applications with voice commands and it even lets you answer WhatsApp messages. All this without asking you to use your hands, and showing you on the screen the minimum amount of information necessary so that you don’t get distracted.
However, Android Auto also has many limitations that we wish it didn’t . For example, it does not allow you to watch videos. Fortunately, this is solved with third-party tools such as Fermata Auto or CarTube. Another annoying limitation is not having a browser to visit your favorite web pages from the car.
Although there are apps that allow you to add a web browser to Android Auto, the truth is that they are very inconvenient to use. Trust us, it’s not at all practical (or safe) to type in a web address while driving. Therefore, in this tutorial we will explain how to turn your favorite web pages into Android Auto applications , so that you can easily open them from the car with just a tap. Let’s go there…
How to install web pages in Android Auto as applications
If you want to have websites in the form of applications in Android Auto, follow these steps:
- Download AAStore from GitHub and install it on your mobile (it is an application store that is not on Google Play for Android Auto).
- Open AAStore and select an app that says Custom app (there are 10 to choose from, each one will allow you to add a different website to Android Auto).
- Click on Install to install this application.
- Surely you will need to give AAStore the permission to install applications on your mobile.
- Open the installed Custom app. It will ask you for microphone permission . Only grant it if the web page you will convert requires it.
- Then, click on Click here to insert the URL .
- Enter the address of the website you want to push to Android Auto as an app and tap OK . For example: https://androidphoria.com
That is all! After completing all these steps, you will have converted a web page into an Android Auto application. Repeat these same steps (from the second) to turn up to 9 more websites into Android Auto apps.
You can now open the web page converted into an application from Android Auto
The website you converted earlier will not appear in Android Auto with its official name and logo. It will come out with exactly the same icon and name that it had in AAStore . To open it, you must first connect the mobile where you installed it to Android Auto. Afterwards, you will be able to select it and see it on the screen as one more app.
In this way, you will have at your disposal the website you chose and you will be able to see its articles from your car , as well as its embedded images and videos. To follow tutorials or search for certain information, the truth is that it is great.
