Google Inc.

Zhongxia Yan

Lauren Wunderlich

Francisco Manuel Galanes

Patrick Brady

Jia Wei Tam

Sabrina Silk Billinghurst

Gyeong Sik Choi

Yuanjiao Shen

Heng Xiong

Bryan Jeffery Moles

A device is described that, while operating in an automobile configuration, causes a vehicle system of an automobile to display part of an automobile graphical user interface (GUI) while locally displaying a different part of the automobile GUI. Responsive to receiving user input for switching to a non-automobile GUI that permits access to at least some features of the device that are restricted by the automobile GUI, the device replaces the part of the automobile GUI that is locally displayed on the device with the non-automobile GUI, all while continuing to cause the vehicle system to display its part of the automobile GUI. The device accesses the at least some features of the device and responsive to receiving user input for switching back to the automobile GUI, the device replaces the non-automobile GUI with the part of the automobile GUI that was previously displayed by the device.

Maintaining an automobile configuration of a mobile computing device while switching between automobile and non-automobile user interfaces

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Davis, CA, United States of America

Zhongxia Yan