If you want to get Android Auto In your car you need to buy one of the equipment from companies like Pioneer, which can go for 500 euros. Or you can also buy one of the vehicles that already include it, which is somewhat more expensive. However, now you have a new option, which is to turn your tablet into your Android Auto device.
Thousands of hours
It has taken thousands of hours to get this Mod for tablets that we can now find in XDA Developers, and that allows us to turn any Android tablet into an Android Auto device. First of all, the programmers who have launched it claim that it has taken them more than 400 hours to reverse engineer the devices with Android Auto to understand how they work, since Google has not provided documentation on this specific version of the operating system for vehicles , except for the vehicle manufacturers with which it has signed, and the manufacturers of car equipment. And then even more hours of programming and testing until they have managed to come up with a version that, at least, works. Of course, at the moment it is still a very initial version, so we can expect errors.
Android Auto on your tablet
So far, you can confirm that it works with the two Nexus 7 that have been released, with the Nexus 9, and with the Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet with CyanogenMod. It will be a matter of testing with other tablets to see if it works. The advantages of using a tablet instead of buying a Pioneer device, in addition to the savings, are that we can take advantage of a tablet that we have at home and that we do not use much, and that it will probably have a better screen resolution, something easy if it reaches be simply HD. Not to mention that even this Mod, which is an app, can be installed in any version after Android 4.1, it is included, and not only in Android 5.0 Lollipop, as is the case with Android Auto. We leave you at the end the link to XDA Developers where you will have all the information about this Mod and how to use it.
XDA Developers - Android Auto on any tablet