Car

Car-Cluster Version 1.0.0-alpha05

April 3rd, 2019

androidx.car:car-cluster:1.0.0-alpha05 is released. This is the first release of car-cluster. This library allows apps to interact with the instrument cluster of Android Automotive vehicles.

The commits included in this initial release can be found here.

New features

• Added support for displaying turn-by-turn navigation guidance. This includes serialization of navigation state, maneuvers, lane configurations, destinations, estimated time of arrival, road badges, among other entities.

API changes

• New package androidx.car.cluster.navigation containing NavigationState parcelable class and related entities.

Car Version 1.0.0-alpha7

March 13th, 2019

androidx.car:car:1.0.0-alpha7 is released. The full list of commits included in this version can be found here.

New features

• Added support for action buttons and overflow menu in the CarToolbar
• Added new SwitchListItem to handle switches instead of having this on TextListItem
• Updated dark mode colors for day/night as well as default accent color
• Various light and dark theme resources and updates
• Swiping away items on top of the scroll bar in a PagedListView now allowed

API changes

• Removed CarDrawerActivity. Instead, you should use CarDrawerController and its associated components with their own activities.
• PagedSmoothScroller and PagedSnapHelper are now package private.

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where tint was not being applied correctly to checkboxes.