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.
- 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.
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