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@@ -13,23 +13,36 @@ and Gearslip renders that template natively on the car screen. Nothing is mirror
the phone. For apps without a car interface, Gearslip offers a separate screen-sharing
mode.
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| ![The launcher, with apps grouped into phone, maps, music, and messaging](docs/screenshots/launcher.png) | ![Vela Maps giving turn-by-turn directions, with the music player beside the map](docs/screenshots/navigation.png) |
| Apps sorted by kind. A check marks the ones that work. | Vela Maps navigating, with the player beside it. |
| ![ViVi Music's song, art, and controls in Gearslip's player](docs/screenshots/music.png) | ![A new message card over Organic Maps](docs/screenshots/message.png) |
| ViVi Music in Gearslip's player. | A new message, read aloud at a tap, over the map. |
| ![The dashboard, with the weather, the next calendar event, and recent notifications](docs/screenshots/dashboard.png) | ![DuckDuckGo open in Gearslip's web browser](docs/screenshots/web.png) |
| The weather, your next event, and what you missed. | Browse the web while parked. |
## Features
- **Phone calls.** Dial from a keypad, or search your contacts, then confirm before the
call goes out.
- **Navigation.** Gearslip hosts real Car App Library map apps on the car screen; Organic
Maps and OsmAnd both work today.
- **Navigation.** Gearslip hosts real Car App Library map apps on the car screen.
Organic Maps, OsmAnd, and Flitsmeister work today. Vela runs, with rough
edges.
- **Music.** Browse, play, and queue tracks from a car-enabled media app, with a Now
Playing view, an Up Next queue, and lyrics.
Playing view, an Up Next queue, and lyrics. Type a search, and apps that accept one
play the best match.
- **The web.** A browser template with its own on-screen keyboard, for anything that
doesn't ship a car interface of its own.
- **Weather and the day ahead.** A dashboard screen shows the week's calendar next to
the current and coming weather.
- **Messages.** New messages appear as a small card on the car screen. Gearslip reads
each one aloud, and you reply by voice or with a quick reply. Speech runs on the phone,
so it needs no Google account.
each one aloud, and you reply by voice or with a quick reply. Music pauses while
Gearslip speaks or listens. Speech runs on the phone, so it needs no Google account.
- **Notifications.** Only messages, missed calls, alarms, and reminders interrupt you.
The rest wait on the dashboard.
- **Your apps, your order.** The launcher groups apps by kind: phone, maps, music,
messaging, and the rest. Press and hold an app to move it.
- **Car controls.** Steering wheel buttons, control knobs, and D-pads all work.
- **Themes.** Choose flat buttons or skeuomorphic ones that look like real keys.
@@ -48,7 +61,7 @@ mode.
- **Some apps refuse Gearslip.** Spotify, Waze, and Google Messages use a version of
Google's car library that accepts only Android Auto itself. Spotify still plays through
Gearslip's own player.
- **For now, Gearslip works with cars from before 2020.** Newer head units reject its
- **Gearslip works best with cars from before 2020.** Some newer head units reject its
certificate.
- **Calls use the car's Bluetooth,** as they do in Android Auto. Pair the phone with the
car to hear calls through its speakers.
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