There are increasingly more applications and uses of Android, and the world of motor is not alien to it. But what is Android? It is an operating system for mobile devices based on Linux and licensed by Google. Its success comes from the possibility of using free software and have an open source, allowing you to create your own applications. The programming language used is Java, C and C + +, also has a plugin for Eclipse IDE (the latest data are for those of us stuck in the scene).
Android on the Ford Fiesta
Ford plans in 2011 to market the Ford Fiesta with terminal support Android. Their role will be, in principle, with the voice control the music playing mobile that will, in turn, connected to the car radio. Later, new applications will appear to set the GPS, see the weather, news, etc.. Ford also introduced the Ford Sync App, a set of utilities that enable developers to create applications that can communicate with the vehicle and extract information and send it via Bluetooth connection. You can see information from the mobile display vehicle, receiving data from the car on the phone and, of course, send commands to the car, also can use voice recognition to change tracks on the CD player.
General Motors
The Chevrolet Volt (brother, repeatedly delayed, Opel Ampera), will support Android, offering a wide range of applications. You can find directions in Google Maps by voice, locate the car via GPS, controlled from the phone battery (remember that this is a plug-in hybrid vehicle), central locking, etc. We can see how it works in the following video:
Other applications
Find My Car Lite is an application to locate the car after parking it. It is very useful if you miss the ball you can not remember where you left parked. The system works by using a compass and using Google Maps. It tells you what direction you should go to find, in addition to reporting the time that was parked and the distance that you are of him
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