README covers launcher mode, phone map turns, hidden apps, density and languages

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- **Navigation.** Gearslip hosts real Car App Library map apps on the car screen.
Organic Maps, Vela, OsmAnd, Flitsmeister, MAPS.ME, and MapQuest work today. While you
navigate, a big turn card on the left shows the arrow, the distance, and your lane, and
the map keeps the right side.
the map keeps the right side. Turns from Google Maps or Waze running on the phone show in
the nav bar, and on the instrument cluster in cars with a screen there.
- **Music.** Browse, play, and queue tracks from a car-enabled media app, with a Now
Playing view, an Up Next queue, and lyrics. Type a search, and apps that accept one
play the best match.
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- **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.
messaging, and the rest. Press and hold an app to move it, and hide the ones you don't
use from the Apps card on the phone.
- **Car controls.** Steering wheel buttons, control knobs, and D-pads all work.
- **Your phone's colors.** The car screen and the phone app take their colors from your
phone's Material You palette, and every card and button matches.
- **Themes.** Choose flat buttons or skeuomorphic ones that look like real keys.
- **Small screens.** Car display density makes text and buttons bigger in car apps.
- **Your language.** Gearslip comes in 19 languages besides English, some only partly
translated. Pick one in Settings. Voice commands understand English only for now.
- **Settings on the phone.** The car's settings sit on the phone's home screen too, so you
can set things up before you drive. A change on either screen shows on both.
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then one permission at a time, each with a plain reason and an Allow or Skip. A help
screen inside the car answers anything setup didn't cover.
- **Templated apps work.** Gearslip renders the Car App Library's templates on the car
screen, and it draws its own keyboard for search, sign-in, and text fields. It has been
tested against several real navigation and media apps.
screen, and it draws its own keyboard for search, sign-in, and text fields. Alerts, such
as a map app asking whether a hazard is still there, show on the car screen too. It has
been tested against several real navigation and media apps.
- **Gearslip can be a head unit's home screen.** On a head unit that runs Android, or a
spare phone or tablet on the dash, turn on Use as launcher in Settings > Connection. The
car screen fills the display, and an All apps page opens everything else.
- **Gearslip works with [LIVI](https://github.com/f-io/LIVI),** the open-source head unit
used in homemade car dashboards.
- **Some apps refuse Gearslip.** Spotify, Waze, and Google Messages use a version of