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.
The card now closes after no, cancel or no answer instead of popping back up. The
setup guide asks for the microphone even with car audio off, and its adb commands use
the installed package name. Sensor events are logged once per type plus a count.
Any control with a press-and-hold action now shows it: a corner peel on Tactile and
Keycap that opens while held, a dot on Flat. Working/partial/broken badges moved onto
the app icon. Spotify and Deezer are marked partial since they need opening on the phone.
Sensors live in service field 2, not 5 (that's the mic), so the channel never opened.
Message ids were also one off and the start request was missing min_update_period.
Gearslip now reads messages aloud and takes replies by voice. It asks
whether to reply, reads the reply back and sends it after a countdown.
Say "cancel" or "change it" to stop or redo it, or tap a quick reply.
Speech-to-text runs on the phone with whisper.cpp and a small Whisper
model, so voice works without Google services. The model ships in the
repo, so a fresh clone builds with nothing to download.
New messages show as one card at the top right, with a bar counting
down to when it closes or sends.
Other changes:
- Steering wheel buttons, knobs and D-pads drive the car screen.
- Smoother car audio: chunks wait for the car instead of dropping.
- Sharper, more responsive video.
- The Gearslip switch in Settings now stops it taking the USB
connection.
- Apps that refuse Gearslip say so instead of loading forever.
- The phone asks for notification permission.
- The home screen stays upright.
- The car screen shows what's new after an update.
Leaving Home used to tear down the map's surface, so coming back showed black for a second or two while the nav app redrew. Home now stays composed under every other screen.
Car apps are now bound as a foreground service, so they keep network access when Gearslip isn't the top app on the phone. Before, an app bound in the background could lose network under Doze: its map and GPS kept working while search and routing went dead.
The app surface is also recreated whenever the map area changes size, the way Android Auto does it, instead of being resized in place. Apps that draw through their own VirtualDisplay rebuild it on the reused surface, and the old display's teardown then cuts the new one off, freezing the map for good. Found with Flitsmeister after picking a route.
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Push-to-talk voice control, gated behind experimental settings alongside a new raw vehicle sensor screen. Spotify now shows as partial instead of working since its browse tile rejects Gearslip as a host. Fixed a gap where a live nav app couldn't take a fresh destination without a full reconnect.
- First run now asks for permissions one at a time, each on its own screen with an Allow or
Skip, instead of firing every system dialog at once from a cold start
- The head unit certificate can be downloaded straight from the opencardev/aasdk repository
with one tap, on top of the existing adb-staged and file-import paths; Settings shows which
source is active and lets an imported or downloaded certificate be removed
- A phone app on the car screen: a keypad and a searchable contacts list, with a confirmation
card before every call
- The web browser draws its own on-screen keyboard for a page's text fields, so a search box or
address bar can be typed into from the car screen
- Media player rework: a dedicated Now Playing tab with a bigger, screen-size-aware layout, an
Up Next tab showing the app's real queue, and Browse/Lyrics tabs that share the same rail
- Waze and Google Messages are marked broken instead of pretending to work; Google's own dialer,
Assistant, and Android Auto entries are hidden from the car launcher entirely; Aardvark and
Vivi Music are marked tested and working
- A help screen replaces the old wall of setup text on the home screen
- The display-calibration screen is gone - it did its job
Incoming calls now show the caller (name via contacts, else number) on
the car UI with answer/decline, using a call screening service so the
car sees a call before it rings. Also adds pinnable nav bar shortcuts,
lowers minSdk to 31 for wider device support, and bumps to 0.0.04-pre.
Gearslip captures playback, not the screen, but Android's consent
dialog and persistent indicator look identical either way. Note why
the indicator appears, and correct the adjacent no-adb claim to
mention the two optional audio commands as the sole exception.
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The head unit offers a media sink, but Android answers Setup with an
empty reply instead of a Config message. AudioLink now falls back to
the advertised sink after 2.5s. AudioCaptureService captures by audio
usage, not by app, so switching media apps costs nothing further and
one grant covers a whole drive.
A one-time adb command (PROJECT_MEDIA) removes the consent dialog
itself; the setup screen now includes it as a copyable step, next to
the existing mic-permission step.
Capture counts as a screen share, so Android 15 hides notification
contents while it runs. ScreenShareGuard lifts that protection for
the length of the capture, with a second adb grant
(WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS), and restores it afterward, including after a
crash.
The phone keeps playing what it captures, so AudioCaptureService also
mutes STREAM_MUSIC for the drive and restores it on every exit path.
Adds a debug bench (BenchAudioSink, CarPreviewActivity --ez audio
true) for testing the audio path without a car, and a unit test that
rebuilds the real head unit's ServiceDiscoveryResponse from a logged
session to confirm the media and guidance sinks are found correctly.
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