The home screens of Android Auto and CarPlay. One is a notification dashboard, the other is an a app icon grid.
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Under the hood, CarPlay and Android Auto seem pretty similar. They're both "casted" interfaces that process and render a computing environment on a smartphone and then send that interface to the car display, basically using it as an external touchscreen monitor. The interfaces are wildly different though, with CarPlay sticking with the tried-and-true grid of apps, while Android Auto displays a notification dashboard and uses a tabbed interface. After having just looked at CarPlay and reviewing Android Auto last year, we figured a quick comparison was in order.
The first picture in the gallery covers the biggest differences between these two systems. CarPlay and Android Auto take completely different approaches to the system UI and home screen design, and this affects the entire way you use the device.
CarPlay's original name of "iOS in the car" pretty much nails Apple's goal here. CarPlay is basically the iOS smartphone/tablet interface enlarged 400 percent and simplified for car usage. The biggest change is the status bar, which morphed into a side-mounted bar showing the time, connectivity, and the on-screen home button. The icons are the star of the show here—they're big, bright, obvious, and easy to hit.
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