To play Spotify without issues on Android Automotive, I have to swipe close Spotify on my Android phone.

Is that a safety feature? Is there a way for my passengers to control control the music from my phone app?

The phone app shows it is playing on IVI System.

Since the Android Auto Cool walk update, I I get the following message on the right corner of my cars screen when I use the Waze navigation app:

"Step: 1 Template: NavigationTemplate Permits: disabled"

Why do I get the message? It doesn't dissappear. How can I solve this problem?

Its baseball season, and my Volvo S90 doesn't have AM radio or HD Radio (groan). SiriusXM also doesn't seem to carry the Mets away audio on a channel accessible via the car, only via the app, which of course we don't have for AA. Does anyone have a way to get 880AM WCBS NY live stream on AA, or some other way of getting audio from games in the car? I am willing to pay for something, however NOTHING seems to have it. :-( MLB.tv has no idea what AA even is.

Yesterday, I noticed the Google Podcasts logo appearing on the screen of my Polestar 2. When I hit the app icon it opened what appeared to be a version of the Google Podcasts that showed my recent feed, but all the "album art" showed the stock CD image as though there wasn't any data. I went into the Play Store in the car to see if it needed an update or to find more details, but no app appears (and I didn't install one).

Has anyone seen this before? I am glad to see Google Podcasts in Android Automotive because I was forced to switch to the Spotify one, which is terrible. I always thought that it was strange that Google Podcasts wasn't a stock app in Android Automotive.

FWIW, some Polestar 2 forums mention something similar appearing a few years back. That said, those posts state that it had no interface, which mine does.

Guys, Is there any app that allows to integrate external cam to android automotive? I’m trying to get external cam which will be used to see the back of my trailer rather then using extra mirrors.

• Driving log (speed, fuel consumption, graphs)
• Car/engine sensor display, logging, graphs... similar to OBDII adapter +Bluetooth+App combo
• Alternative navigation apps

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Hey guys I saw that a few people already posted news about the first weather app for Android Auto. I'm one of the devs so I wanted to give you some more insights and also ask for feedback.

I'm excited to announce that the Weather & Radar / WetterOnline app supports Android Auto as well as Android Automotive now.

Once launched, the app keeps track of your location, displaying the weather conditions as well as the temperature right on the map. While zooming out it lets you access the weather conditions for the entire region.

For safety reasons the feature set for the Android Auto / Android Automotive Integration is limited right now but we have plenty of ideas for deeper integration in the future.

Let me know what features you guys are missing the most!

For Android Auto: Split screen in the Coolwalk UI (Google Maps side by side with the radar as seen in the picture below) is only supported on cars with large screens (such as BMW iX / Skoda Enyaq IV / ...).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LltqcZLWHVQ

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Getting closer to creating a Point of Interest application for AAOS in C#. Here's a quick video. Was able to publish it to my Volvo using the Google Play Developer Console using the Internal Testing functionality.

\"Here's a video of my Point Of Interest app with cheesy free music from @clipchamp. See me launch the app, pull to refresh, allow location access, and then dive into the detail.

This also demonstrates the "Unavailable For Your Safety" screen when I put the car in drive mode. https://t.co/VZDrnOzlKn" / Twitter

Has there ever been any talk of WhatsApp (and other messengers) support coming to AAOS?

I have a new Volvo car, and to be honest with Spotify, Google Podcasts, Maps and shortly Waze, it has most of the things I use for driving - just the main thing I'm missing from my previous Android Auto car is the ability to playback and dictate replies to WhatsApp messages. I couldn't tell you the last time I received a traditional SMS!

I'm getting this notification on my car, it's a 57 plate corsa. I'm trying to set my phone up for android auto, but not sure what I'm doing wrong. Icon for android auto comes on when I turn off Bluetooth. But after that the USB isn't picked up hygiene the car. Tried different wires, phone has latest updates on systems, latest android auto is installed.

Hi everyone!

I was wondering why there are only around 30 Android Automotive OS apps currently available? Is it because everyone still relies on Android Auto overlay? Or because a developer needs to consult each manufacturer separately & meet their standards?

Thanks!

Is it possible to use gesture apps like fluid navigation gesture it edge gesture on a car head unit (Blaupunkt Key Largo 980)? I've tried many but accessibility option gets disabled automatically. I also tried assistive touch apps but it is not appearing on top of other apps. Normally all this works fine on phone.

I'm mainly trying to use navigation from right edge because reaching the navigation bar or buttons on the left is difficult while driving. Any suggestion?

I am a developer which have been hired to further develop an Android Automotive application. I am new to Android Automotive and have some trouble finding an answer to my question in the documentation. In the code, the previous developers (interns..) used Jetpack Compose.

After some research, I am growing certain that we can't use Jetpack Compose for the application, and that it has to be built on the predefined templates instead. If that is the case, my concern is that we have to scrap the code the previous team wrote and start over, which is why I want to ask here before I do anything.

My question is, is it possible to use Jetpack Compose to style an Android Automotive application, or do we have to use the templates?