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.
OsmAnd centred its arrow across the whole map because we only told it about
the arrival time, and Waze's speedometer sat under the map buttons. The turn
is now one short bar across the top and the arrival time one line along the
bottom; both bars and the button column are measured where they land and
left out of the area the app is told it can see.
Seb3thehacker