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README: wireless that connects by itself, calls from the nav bar, the new navigation and look, settings on the phone
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## Features
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- **Phone calls.** Dial from a keypad, or search your contacts, then confirm before the
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call goes out. When a call comes in, answer or decline it on the car screen.
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call goes out. When a call comes in, answer or decline it on the car screen. During a
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call, the nav bar shows who you're talking to, and you mute or hang up from there.
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- **Navigation.** Gearslip hosts real Car App Library map apps on the car screen.
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Organic Maps, OsmAnd, and Flitsmeister work today. Vela runs, with rough
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edges.
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Organic Maps, OsmAnd, Flitsmeister, MAPS.ME, and MapQuest work today. Vela runs, with
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rough edges. While you navigate, a big turn card on the left shows the arrow, the
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distance, and your lane, and the map keeps the right side.
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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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- **The web.** A browser template with its own on-screen keyboard, for anything that
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doesn't ship a car interface of its own.
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- **The web.** A browser with an address bar, back and forward, and its own on-screen
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keyboard, for anything that doesn't ship a car interface of its own.
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- **Weather and the day ahead.** A dashboard screen shows the week's calendar next to
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the current and coming weather.
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- **Voice.** Tap the mic, or press the talk button on the wheel, and say "navigate to the
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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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- **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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- **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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## Status
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- **Wired or wireless.** Plug the phone into the car's USB port, or, in a car with wireless
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Android Auto, tap Connect wirelessly and pick the car. Pair the phone with the car over
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Bluetooth first.
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Bluetooth first. After the first wireless drive, Android asks once whether Gearslip may
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watch for that car; from then on, Gearslip connects whenever the car's Bluetooth does.
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- **Setup walks you through it.** First launch asks for the Android Auto certificate,
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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 all 16 template types that the Car App
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Library defines, and it draws its own keyboard for search, sign-in, and text fields.
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It has been tested against several real navigation and media apps.
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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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- **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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Google's car library that accepts only Android Auto itself. Spotify still plays through
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Gearslip's own player.
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Gearslip's own player. TIDAL lets only approved apps browse its library.
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- **Calls use the car's Bluetooth,** as they do in Android Auto. Pair the phone with the
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car to hear calls through its speakers.
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- **Music reaches the car over Bluetooth or USB.** Setup asks which. Bluetooth is the
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default: Android never asks for permission, and your map app's voice reaches the car
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too. USB sounds a little clearer, with no delay, but Android shows a screen-share
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consent dialog once per drive. Gearslip never reads the screen; capturing playback is
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too. USB sounds a little clearer, with no delay, but each drive Android asks you to
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share your screen, which lets Gearslip send the sound. Gearslip never reads the screen; capturing playback is
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the only way an ordinary app can pass another app's audio along.
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- **Gearslip needs no adb, root, or Shizuku.** Every feature relies on an ordinary
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Android permission or an on-device consent dialog. For USB audio, setup offers two
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