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