USB audio needs Android's screen-sharing consent every drive. A new Car audio setting on the phone and car screens picks Bluetooth instead, and the first refusal opens a dialog offering Bluetooth, asking again, or the one-time adb command.
The knob's turns reached the car screen but never moved focus: keys handed
straight to the view left it in touch mode, where buttons refuse focus.
Buttons now show an accent ring while the knob is on them, map buttons wake
on a knob turn instead of only on touch, and web pages get the same ring.
The car's Home button opens the dashboard, Map opens the map, and Music
reopens the last media app.
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Panes shaped like a place page (MAPS.ME's) show the name and kind first, short
tappable rows as buttons, and the details compact below. A phone number gets a
Call button that asks first with the dialer's confirmation. Other panes draw as
before.
MAPS.ME tints its map buttons dark grey for dark mode, which vanished on Gearslip's
dark buttons. A tint below 3:1 contrast now falls back to the normal text colour,
as Android Auto does.
A driver only glances at the screen, so short toasts now last 4 seconds and long
ones 7. The card uses the popup's colours, which read better over a map.
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.
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