Samsung’s version of Android Auto has a clever notification trick

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung developed a feature called location-based navigation that scans your messages for locations and lets you quickly start navigating to those destinations from your car screen. This feature is available in Samsung Auto, which is Samsung’s version of Android Auto available in the Chinese version of One UI. Android Auto currently doesn’t offer an equivalent feature, but we argue it should for safety reasons. Android Auto is one of Android’s best features, since it lets you safely access many of your phone’s features while you’re driving. It’s not the only phone projection implementation, though. In China, where Android Auto isn’t available, Samsung offers its own version called Samsung Auto. Samsung Auto offers many of the same capabilities as Android Auto, but it has one neat feature that we’d like Google to copy: location-based navigation. Most people input a destination before driving, but sometimes, drivers must change destinations mid- ... Read full article.