Not enough with Google Maps and Waze when it comes to using GPS navigation in your car with Android Auto? Well now you have an alternative: Sygic. This powerful GPS app already supports Android Auto openly . And you can try it for free.
Sygic Navigation is a long-standing point-to-point guidance GPS navigation software that has been around for years. The result of its success is the effort to adapt the navigation to almost any platform that allows it . iOS, Android and also Android Auto: compatibility with cars has been in closed testing for a few months . That you also wanted to try it? No problem: we explain how to access Sygic directly from your car console.
Access the Sygic beta to use it in Android Auto
Free access to Sygic’s GPS navigation from the Android Auto console comes with version 20. Currently, the beta is already in that version within Google Play; so you don’t need to download an APK to use the benefits of Sygic maps in the car: just entering the beta program is enough .
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To access the Sygic beta you need to follow a few steps. Let’s see how it is done:
- Open a desktop web browser. In the event that you access with the mobile browser, make sure that the desktop mode is activated.
- Enter this link .
- Sign in with your Google account. In the case that you are Premium in Sygic make sure that you sign up for the beta the same account of the subscription(or with which you bought the maps).
- Click on ‘Become a tester’ to enter the Sygic for Android beta program.
- Ready: once your mobile app is updated, you will be in the latest version available, which is compatible with Android Auto (20.4.0-1536).
Once your mobile application has been updated, you will have access to Sygic in Android Auto. The browsing experience will depend on the services you have contracted on the platform: to use Android Auto you need to be Premium . Sygic offers a free trial period with which you will know if the use of its maps is adapted to your needs or not.
Sygic is the first GPS navigation system that is offered as an alternative to the only two applications that until now were in Android Auto, both from Google: Maps and Waze . With the arrival of Sygic, the operating system for vehicles not only gains more variety, but also freshness . All at a cost: to use most Sygic services it is essential to go through the box.
