The map keeps its full size underneath, so docking the player only re-centres it. Tactile and Keycap cast shadows, Flat stays flat. The card slides in and a new cover fades in.
The docked player and side lyrics use the theme's surface instead of the album colour. Lyrics keep the line being sung near the middle, fade at the edges, and fill in each word for BetterLyrics songs, which now keep their word timings.
Opening AntennaPod while Metrolist played switched Gearslip's player to
AntennaPod, so the nav bar lost the music and its buttons drove the wrong app.
Leaving an app where nothing started goes back to the one that kept playing.
The intro drops directions, app picks and the button picker. The setup guide's
long pages fade out with a scroll hint, and the app list's names read on dark.
A fresh look, directions at a glance, connecting by itself, better calls and
settings up front, then app picks with an Other cool apps row and the button
picker. The intro is named after its release, so a patch can carry one.
ZLink head units send InfoResponse again once the stream is up. Rejoining
released the network carrying the stream, aborting it a second in, and left the
unit stuck waiting for a version request until ZLink was force closed. A session
ending mid-teardown no longer crashes the app either.
A quarter comes off when the frame rate sags while the encoder waits on acks;
two easy windows put a tenth back. If a cut doesn't help, the car's decoder is
the limit, so the cut is undone and adapting stops for that drive.
Apps built on 1.8 can now hand Gearslip their newer template pieces (chips,
progress bars, timers); drawing them comes next. Vela, Organic Maps and RF
Sentinel connect as before.
Back and the header icon in an app opened from the launcher went to the map app.
The bar above it showed the template class and draw state. Map buttons rest
faintly instead of vanishing, and place cards share the navigation width.
The turn card shows the arrow, distance, instruction, lanes and the next turn;
the trip card stacks time left, arrival and distance. The app centers its map
right of the cards.
Bitmap icons all shared one cache key, so Vela's turn arrows showed whatever
bitmap loaded first (a fuel pin). Route options now show the time and distance
apps send as spans instead of a lone dot.
Small labelled buttons pinned at the bottom of Home, so cards above can't push them out of sight.
Help and tools leaves Settings, Connection help (the same page as Help) goes, What's new moves to
the top of Settings, the intro replay goes, and the debug build's test message gets its own
section there.
A session the car ended left Gearslip thinking one was still running, so the next time the car
came back nothing happened. Only a live session counts now, and each reason not to connect is
logged.
Starting the stream at once and the car's focus answer could both get through, so the car got
Start twice and two AAC encoders ran. A 2014 aftermarket head unit dropped the connection on the
first audio. Directions now also log why a turn went unspoken.
Apps on Car App Library 1.9 and later (Yandex Maps and 2GIS among them) don't reply to a host
that isn't Google's, so a map app on Home sat on its loading message. After 10 seconds without
an answer it now counts as refused, and Home offers another app.
A button in the header hides it and the nav bar; a page's own full screen,
such as a video's, fills the browser too. A swipe in from the top or bottom
edge brings the nav bar back for a few seconds, with a button to leave, and
Back leaves full screen first.
Other screens and pop-ups now sit in a layer over Home instead of inside
its area, so full screen grows over the nav bar's row while the map's
surface underneath keeps its size.
With the preview filling the phone, the button sat on the car's nav bar and
swallowed taps there. It now goes only in the black beside the frame; with
no room, the back gesture leaves.
Each frame used to be copied into two new full-size bitmaps on the main
thread, so the bigger the preview, the further taps lagged. The display now
draws into the preview's own surface, the way the car's encoder gets it,
and turning the phone hands the surface over without restarting the car UI.
Some head units report a size their screen isn't, then crop or squash the
picture onto it. Settings, on the phone and the car, now take the screen's
real size and how the car fits it. Crop keeps the UI and taps inside the
part the car shows, like a car's own margins. Squash draws for the real
shape and stretches it over the frame on the GPU, map apps included, so
the car's squash puts it back.
The car preview can also draw at the last car's size, this device's whole
screen, or a size typed in, for head units running Gearslip on their own.
Opening Gearslip after a crash starts a new log, so the one that saw the
crash could only be pulled with a computer. Logs now has an Earlier button
listing past launches, newest first, marked when they crashed; tapping one
shares it. The newest 30 are kept.
Set in car Settings. Off "Always show", the bar floats over the map, so
hiding it never resizes the map app's surface; the app is told the bar
covers the bottom while it shows. The arrival card no longer counts as
covering the map, so Waze's speedometer sits level with it.
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