Methods and systems for defining custom vehicle user interface configurations and cloud services for managing applications for the user interface and learned setting functions

A method, comprising:

• providing access to cloud services over the Internet for customizing a user interface of a vehicle;
• providing selection options to identify a vehicle type among a plurality of vehicle types, each vehicle type being associated with a system component native to the vehicle type, the system component providing native interfaces for the vehicle type;
• providing a plurality of applications available for the vehicle type, each of the applications provided with predefined code for communicating with at least one control interface of the system component;
• defining a custom configuration of the user interface for the vehicle type that includes native interfaces for components native to the vehicle type and an app interface for an application added to the user interface of the vehicle, the custom configuration being defined to cause rendering of at least a portion of a screen for the user interface on a vehicle display, the custom configuration being saved to a user account in a database accessible over the Internet with the cloud services,
• receiving user input via the user interface of the vehicle display, as defined by the custom configuration;
• learning patterns of user input via the user interface over time;
• and
• automatically programming one or more components of the custom configuration based on the learned patterns of user input, the automatic programming continuing to change over time based on the received user input over time, the changes to the automatic programming being saved periodically to the user account in the database, the method being executed by a processor.