If you play games on Android Auto, then you’re probably familiar with how they’re presented on your car’s display. When you tap on the app, that game opens up to take over the entire screen. Since all of the screen real estate is occupied, there’s no room for buttons to take you back or exit the game. Instead, you have to swipe down from the top of the display to see these options.
A wave of changes is headed for Android Auto in the near future. Not only is the platform being prepared for Gemini integration, but we also recently noticed that its in-progress light theme looks like it’s almost ready for prime time. In today’s APK teardown, we have found yet another change that’s on its way, this time for the way games are displayed on screen.
As you may have guessed, the back button acts as a back button for the game. So if you find yourself deep in the game’s menus, you can use this back button to navigate your way back to a previous menu. If you’re not in any menus, tapping on the back button will allow you to exit the game. Meanwhile, the app drawer button, unsurprisingly, opens the app drawer. If you open the app drawer while in a game, your game will continue to run in the background.