Since Android 14, an app bound by a visible host may start a foreground service
only if the host binds it with BIND_ALLOW_ACTIVITY_STARTS. Without it, MapQuest
crashed as navigation began, and Flitsmeister and Vela ran their services without
location. MapQuest now gets the working check.
800x480 at 30fps gets 8 Mbps instead of 4, and larger screens scale from
there. The encoder now declares the H.264 level each size needs, and the
bitrate stays within that level's limit.
Checks GitHub's latest release once a day when the app opens and after a
drive. A new version shows as a card on Home, a notification after the
drive, and a card on the car screen at plug-in while parked. Downloads are
checked against GitHub's SHA-256 and never install while the car is
connected. Update notifications can be turned off in Settings.
A box on the phone types into the car's text field. Media apps with library search show a list of results to pick from, searching a second after you stop typing.
Cars like the 2022 Dacia Jogger list a compressed audio channel before the raw one, and Gearslip was sending raw audio to it. The Exit tile no longer shows as running, and the log leaves out the weather town and the car's GPS.
One look for every section, What's new and the setup guide at the top, and the setup guide's buttons stay on screen. Recommended apps is hidden for now.
Release builds ask in setup and Settings whether to send a short note when the app is opened and after each drive: the version, plus the Android version, phone model and cars people tick. Nothing runs in the background. Dev builds always send. The Cloudflare Worker in stats-worker/ stores the notes and serves a private dashboard with GitHub downloads alongside.
Every screen reached from Home has a themed back button in its header. A new Exit tile
asks the car to show its own interface, as Android Auto's does. All writes to the car
now go through one thread, so reading never waits on a write; LIVI no longer stalls
for two seconds at a time. Touches go to the front of the main thread's queue.
With one frame allowed in flight (LIVI), dropped frames forced keyframe repairs, which
caused more drops. LIVI went from 345 forced keyframes a minute to none.
LIVI lists an empty input for its cluster display before the real touchscreen, so every
tap was ignored. Pick the video and input that belong to the main screen.
The head unit speaks first and gave up while the phone spent a second unlocking its
certificate before reading. Read straight away and unlock the certificate alongside it,
and keep it unlocked between connections.
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