METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING INFOTAINMENT FUNCTIONALITY

An infotainment management system is disclosed for managing infotainment functionality of an infotainment system of a vehicle to which a nomadic device is connected. The management system may display, on a touch sensitive display associated with the infotainment system, category user-interface objects associated with respective infotainment functionality categories. The management system may further displays, on the touch sensitive display, while a category objects is displayed, a user-interface object linking to a user application program hosted on the nomadic device, which user application program is supported by the infotainment system. Objects such as interactive icons linking to user application programs which are installed on the nomadic device and may be invoked by the linking objects, may be displayed on the in-vehicle touch sensitive display simultaneously with category objects, such as interactive virtual buttons, relating to other infotainment functionality such as in-vehicle navigation, music and/or telephony functionality.