From 7a774b40910a306a01807fdf82c734c2d1c17560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seb3thehacker Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 20:36:24 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] README covers launcher mode, phone map turns, hidden apps, density and languages --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e2925bf..4325fdb 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ screen-sharing mode. - **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. @@ -78,11 +79,15 @@ screen-sharing mode. - **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. @@ -96,8 +101,12 @@ screen-sharing mode. 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