Automotive Linux Summit & Open Source Summit Japan 2018

While smartphone-based connectivity has become an essential part of modern IVI systems, the technology with which the IVI systems connect to smartphones has fragmented with the growing demand for Android Auto, CarPlay and SmartDeviceLink. While this provides a greater amount of choice, it also poses challenges for the automotive industry in providing a unified and consistent user experience across different connectivity methods. In this presentation, Takeshi Kanemoto will outline the challenges in enabling multiple smartphone connectivity technologies on an IVI system, and how a common high-level API in AGL for smartphone connectivity can improve the design of AGL-enabled IVI systems and improve the user experience.