Android Automotive is getting its 38th app: Waze - Ars Technica

Google's other big navigation app, Waze, is coming to Android Automotive.

Today the company announced the move on the Waze blog, saying, "The new dedicated Waze app for cars brings the best of Waze real-time navigation, routing and alerts feature[s] right in the car’s display.

This is incredibly difficult, expensive, and time-consuming for app developers, which is a big reason Android Automotive only has 37 apps right now.

AAOS only allows for media and navigation apps, and even the media apps don't get a custom interface—you just plug into Google's interface with your own branding and audio stream, which alleviates the regulatory burden but limits what apps can do.

The company says the app is exclusive to "the new Renault Austral Hybrid and Renault Megane E-Tech electric vehicles in Europe." The weird rollout might have to do with all those regulatory issues car apps have to deal with, and Waze says it will bring the new app to "more users across the globe in 2023.".