Google is secretly working on Android’s automatic interface for messaging apps

Fortunately, teardowns and other advanced hacks allow skilled developers to provide us with a quick glimpse of what’s to come in the world of Android Auto, and it turns out that the more recent versions pave the way for another improvement. welcome.

According to results shared on reddit by the developer of AA AIO Tweaker, an advanced Android Auto tool providing access to features that have not been enabled by Google, the search giant is working on a graphical user interface for apps from messaging in the car.

In other words, Android Auto will soon display dedicated icons for certain messaging apps, and touching them would launch a dedicated user interface with a completely new purpose.

WhatsApp and Google Messages apps are two of the first that could be supported, although at the moment, enabling their GUI doesn’t seem to make a difference, as the feature is not yet functional.

So what should this GUI do when it’s finally enabled in Android Auto?

“Once launched, Android Auto should start showing notifications of messages from that app. But really no. It doesn’t do that. Any SMS or WhatsApp message will always be displayed in the notification center, and not in the own app,»Explains the developer.

In other words, these dedicated GUIs would still show notifications, but they will now be grouped together for each app and not in a central hub like the notification center.

Does that mean Google would kill the notification center in Android Auto at some point? It’s hard to predict at this point, but future updates to Android Auto should give us a clearer picture of how this feature is supposed to evolve in the long term.