0.3.12-alpha: version and release notes

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Gearslip 0.3.02 connects wirelessly by itself, and phone calls work much better.
Gearslip 0.3.12 gives the car screen a fresh look and fixes the wireless loop 0.3.02 caused on some head units.
## New
- Wireless connects by itself. After your first wireless drive, Android asks once whether Gearslip may watch for that car. From then on, Gearslip connects whenever the car's Bluetooth does. A USB cable still wins.
- Phone calls work much better. Calls you place from the car's dialer go through, and you can end or mute a call from the nav bar, which shows who you're talking to and for how long.
- The browser goes full screen, for the whole page or a video in it.
- The nav bar can hide while you navigate, or until you tap the screen.
- Directions sit in short bars, so map apps keep their maps clear of them.
- Share a log from an earlier launch, not just the current one.
- In the car preview, you type with the phone's keyboard.
- Navigation cards sit down the left side, with a bigger turn card that shows your lane. The map keeps the right side.
- The car screen and the phone app take their colors from your phone's Material You palette.
- The car's settings sit on the phone's home screen, each group on its own screen.
- Put the home screen's player left or right of the map.
- The browser shows the page title, and it has an address bar, forward, reload, and a start page.
- If Gearslip lacks call permissions, the car's Phone screen asks for them on the phone.
## Changed
- Help, Preview, and Logs sit in a row at the bottom of the phone's home screen.
- What's new, at the top of Settings, opens the release notes here on GitHub.
- Gearslip uses Car App Library 1.8. Map apps show the right turn arrows and route times, and Vela works fully.
- Setup ends with recommended apps, then the button picker, then usage notes.
## Fixed
- Before each spoken turn, Gearslip asks the car for its speakers, as Android Auto does. Some head units rebooted without this.
- An app that won't run in Gearslip, such as Yandex Maps or 2GIS, now says so after 10 seconds instead of showing "Starting" forever.
- Head units that take only AAC music get one start message, not two. A 2014 aftermarket unit dropped the connection over the second.
- With music on Bluetooth, the car keeps its Bluetooth source.
- Head units offering Android Auto 4.x and 6.x get a version they accept.
- Homemade head units without a certificate keep working, and the wheel buttons and knob work as they do in the main build.
- A car that reports the wrong screen size gets the right one.
- iscle fixed how Gearslip frames, secures, and negotiates the connection, and how it checks what the car sends.
## Known issues
- Call audio plays through the car's Bluetooth phone connection, as it does with Android Auto. If a call plays on the phone instead, open the car in the phone's Bluetooth settings and turn on Phone calls.
- Some head units, such as ZLink adapters, sent their Wi-Fi details twice. Gearslip rejoined the network each time and dropped the connection. It now ignores the repeat.
- Gearslip no longer crashes when a wireless connection ends.
- Opening a second music app without playing anything keeps the player on the song that's still playing.
- Vela's speed sign is full size again.
- RF Sentinel and other non-media car apps get their own tile in the launcher.