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                <div class="landing-h1 hero">Android Auto</div>
                <div class="landing-subhead hero">Entertainment and services on your dashboard</div>
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                  <p style="width:450px">Display and control your handheld app in vehicles.
                  Build apps with easy-to-use UI templates that
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            <div class="landing-h1">Extending Android to Cars</div>
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            <p>When users connect their Android phones to compatible vehicles, Android Auto
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            interact with Auto by using the vehicle's input controls, touch display, and voice.</p>
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            <p>In the coming months, we’ll be releasing the Android Auto SDK, which includes APIs
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                "The Android Auto APIs provide an easy way to integrate the most important features and functionality of iHeartRadio’s robust music service into a safety-minded automotive infotainment solution. The process was seamless, utilizing a flexible construct that allowed us to quickly adapt our existing product without losing any of the core experience our listeners know and love."</em></p>

                <b>Ryan Goff<br>
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