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Google Is Making Android Auto Available In Any Car (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Earlier this year, Google announced its plans to bring Android Auto, its phone-centric in-car infotainment platform, "to every car" by launching it as a stand-alone Android app, too. It's taken a while, but the company today launched an update to the Android Auto app for -- well -- Android that makes good on this promise. Even if your car isn't Android Auto compatible, you can now get all the benefits of Android Auto without the cost of a new mid-size sedan. Android Auto on the phone provides you with a simplified interface that combines directions, music, and incoming messages into a relatively distraction free experience. That's essentially the same interface you would see on an in-car display with Android Auto support. Android Auto works with popular apps like Spotify, Pandora, Google Maps and others. Like all things Google, the app will also soon let you use "Ok Google" commands to use directions, send messages and control your music. What's more is that the app will automatically boot-up when the phone connects to your car's Bluetooth network. It's compatible with smartphones running Android 5.0 and newer and will be available to users in more than 30 countries over the course of the next few days.
I was hoping it could read text messages. It may, but ...
There are a lot of disappointed users on the play store :
https://play.google.com/store/...
It's rated 3.3 at the time of writing. I will wait a bit before trying myself !
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pot pie that is and it's amazing.
Anyone know if this will integrate with Bluetooth OBD II readers? I did RTFA...well, I searched TFA, and didn't see anything one way or another.
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I want Google in my car about as much as I want a Trump presidency.
I have an older Audi without navigation. The navigation data hasn't been updated for something like a decade, so there's little point in swapping it in. I just want to use Android. I actually plan to install something permanently or in a dock, probably a tablet, and make it a "keyboard" (using Arduino or similar) to provide some nicer controls. Now, let's see how many years this project takes me :p
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Can't install this on either my phone or car tablet.
And why can't I see who's ringing and answer my phone from my tablet? They are both connected to my cars audio, and to each other...
They make head units ("radios") with Android Auto, and an adapter cable for your car, so you *could* have a very nice installation done in about 20 minutes. My brother who does auto electronics for a living says the aftermarket Android Auto units are really great.
If you want to spend more time, you can also hook them up to your obd2 or whatever other sites for extra features.
^What he said.
20 minutes once you figure out exactly what you need, maybe.
Chances are, you don't drive one of the two or three cars left that have a normal single or double DIN head unit. So you have to figure out which new front fascia to buy (assuming you're lucky enough to have a choice). Then you have to figure out which wiring harness works with steering wheel controls. And it's not going to be a 100% drop-in replacement, so you have to figure out which resistor to buy to get the air conditioning to still work.
I'd factor in 3-4 hours to get some decent reviews on all the components. 30 minutes to install it the first time. 20 minutes to figure out what's broken now. An hour to find the additional required harnesses. 30 minutes to install it the second time.
It's not even an Android problem. The state of aftermarket head units right now is completely pathetic.
That's b'cos Bluetooth is a 1:1 connection protocol, not a multiplexed connection: you can only have one device connected to another at any time. Aside from that, tablets typically don't come w/ a separate phone connection, just data, which is why even the messaging apps on the phone don't worrk
They make head units ("radios") with Android Auto,
Yes.
and an adapter cable for your car,
No. Not for my car. For my car without the Bose sound system, a configuration which was not even available in North America, yes.
so you *could* have a very nice installation done in about 20 minutes.
No. Absolutely not. In order to have a "Very nice" installation with another head unit, I would have to spend many hours and dollars doing custom work, bypassing amplifiers, replacing speakers, running wires, et cetera. And having done all that, I'd still have to buy equipment or hire someone with the equipment to come in and balance my sound stage, not having to do which is the primary virtue of keeping the stock Blaupunkt/Bose unit for which I can build a changer emulator. The factory head unit also has a larger-than-normal face, so I either have to spend some significant time, money and effort to match the original wood and make a nice surround bezel, or I have to have a big stupid ugly plastic mounting adapter. That does exist, but it does look like shit.
It makes a whole lot more sense for me to just get a phone cradle for now and start working on my project which will let me install whatever I want in the future.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
My car has a built in navigation unit, and all my phones are already recognizable by it. Whenever I start the car, the phone I carry is automatically recognized by Bluetooth, so that if I get called, I answer via the car system and speak via the unit. So what exactly does Android Auto give me? Does it project Google Maps onto the navigation unit regardless of whether the car supports it or not? I looked at the app, and honestly, I don't need it to browse any music collection (I have a separate iPod touch that has all the songs I need, whose battery is near dead and which is therefore permanently connected to the nav system in the console USB slot
Sorry, your fucking texts and updates from the Book of Faces isn't necessary for you to see immediately while driving, and absolutely doesn't belong in the set of functions called "relatively distraction free." Especially if you're fucking about with a phone to see it, while either holding it up, or worrying about it falling out of the cheap shit window mount that constantly falls off because you didn't bother cleaning the windshield before sticking the suction cup on.
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The problem I have with putting any of these auto services directly on a phone is that the hands-free/no texting laws the police try to enforce may snare you.
The cops are usually just trying to keep any eye out for anyone driving along who picks up a cellphone and holds it in their hand. That's why the navigation systems, Apple Car Play, and Android Auto on an in-dash stereo have value. It ensures the interface is actually part of the vehicle, on the dash.
You can argue that this is stupid, etc. But good luck getting out of the next "texting while driving" ticket by arguing with the cop that all you were actually doing was pressing a key to skip to the next song on your stereo from your phone.
I put a Panasonic aftermarket Stereo in my 16 year old Pontiac (total cost sub $800). It fully supports Android Audio. Works fine for me...
Android Auto is available for all cars -- even in cars that are not Android Auto compatible? That's great news for my 1999 Honda Accord.
But maybe I should replace the clutch and backer plate before I install Android Auto.
You are SO AWESOME...
You should definitely spend several more paragraphs telling us how small your penis is and how you compensate by having such a cool sound system in your car.
You should definitely spend several more paragraphs telling us how small your penis is and how you compensate by having such a cool sound system in your car.
If that's what you took away from that, your reading comprehension skills are equal to a Trump voter.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Why don't you have any money? Buying doo dads. Crap like this. You don't NEED it.
What car model/year?
I assume you have already checked on Crutchfield?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?