How Do I Permanently Turn Off Driving Mode?

Google Assistant helps drivers perform tasks they're already doing while driving. Information technology reduces distraction by providing glanceable, voice-forward multimodal experiences. Driving way helps make every drive safer, more informed, continued, and enjoyable.

Using driving mode

A device automatically enters driving mode when y'all showtime navigating in Google Maps.

You can disable driving mode past going to Google Maps Settings > Navigation Settings > Google Banana settings > Manage Driving Mode. So turn off the Driving Mode setting.

App prerequisites

In gild for driving mode to piece of work correctly with your media app, the app must meet these requirements:

Follow all the directions in The Google Assistant and media apps
Your app needs to declare that it supports media for Android Auto. Follow the directions at declare media support for Android Auto.
Handle sound focus
Use PlaybackState to report errors
Implement a MediaBrowserService and a MediaSession
Your MediaSession must implement these callbacks:
- onPlay()
- onPlayFromSearch()
- onPlayFromUri()
- onSkipToNext()
- onSkipToPrevious()
- onPause()
- onStop()
Proceed the MediaSession metadata current by calling setMetadata().

Driving mode and playback controls

Each app determines the transport controls that announced on the screen. This is done by connecting its MediaSession to TransportControls. For instance, a music histrion unremarkably shows these controls:

Any other supported actions are invoked via voice commands.

Driving style displays recommendations in two places, the "For you" page and the app's browse page. The screens expect similar:

controls

For you lot

controls

App browse

The Banana calls MediaBrowserService.onGetRoot() with the hint EXTRA_SUGGESTED to retrieve recommendations. The method should return a apartment listing of playable MediaItem objects. The app'south browse screen displays all the items in the list. The "for you" screen is not guaranteed to show the recommendations at all if in that location are less than 15 items in the list.

Each MediaItem must have media art. You can optionally provide the type of a MediaItem by adding a CONTENT_TYPE fundamental,value pair to the Package in the MediaDescription of each MediaItem. This helps improve the item's ranking in the "for you lot" folio.

The possible values for CONTENT_TYPE are:

ALBUM
ARTIST
PLAYLIST
TV_SHOW_EPISODE
PODCAST_EPISODE
MUSIC
AUDIO_BOOK
RADIO_STATION
VIDEO
NEWS

Testing

Employ the Media Control test app to verify your app.

Known Bug

Information technology is important to avert opening a media app in the foreground while in driving mode. Currently there is no way for an app to discover whether it is in driving mode or not.

When the Assistant calls MediaBrowserService.GetRoot() to recollect recommendations your app should ensure that GetRoot() is being called while in STATE_NONE. Otherwise the session volition be brought to the foreground.