Kinda sucks android atuo is s google feature rather than an android feature
Pretty sure thereās an android auto API for music apps and stuff (thatās why Spotify and pocket casts and many audiobook players support it), but unfortunately there arenāt non-Google navigation apps (unsure if thatās because Google wonāt allow them or because there just arenāt any).
Our local Google competitor has an map app and they did add Android auto and Apple carplay support.
Oh thatās cool! Is this local for the Czech Republic? How does it compare to Google maps/navigation?
Sometimes I donāt think Google even care about Android car experience at all, even Google Maps somehow always bugs out at the most inconvenient times when you are driving.
The whole app is recycled dogshit. Songs freeze, half the time it wonāt recognize my phone and the list goes on.
I hate to say it but my issues with Android Auto are part of what pushed me to trying out iPhone again. Havenāt had any issues with CarPlay.
Not sure what everyone else is doing, I use Android Auto constantly for work on a lot of rental cars without issue. The bugginess is probably crap cables or old phones, check those.
Well thatās presumptive. I use a Pixel 7 in a 2022 vehicle. When I plug it in I have to open the USB settings EVERY TIME and switch to MIDI before it recognizes the device. I have bugs with Waze, and my music will pause regularly with no connection issues.
This is more of a workaround than a fix, but you can change the default USB configuration in the developer settings.
I bought a new cable just to use it in a rental car. I had to keep switching between Bluetooth and the cable because my music would only work on one and maps on the other. Then the phone wouldnāt work while charging, so I just drove in silence for hours so it wouldnāt die on me because then Iād be really lost. After multiple rental cars and multiple cables, Iāve never had even a decent experience with it and it pisses me off to no end. It just crosses the line into actually being dangerous on top of being inconvenient.
This has been my experience as well. Iāve been using it on my Honda since 2015, and have not had any problems except 2. Once it was just an old USB cable that needed to be replaced. The other issue was sometimes the Bluetooth doesnāt connect the right way so I have to turn off Bluetooth on my phone then connect the USB to my phone which forces it to connect correctly. The Bluetooth issue was recurring (once every month or two), but hasnāt happened for nearly a year now.
I HATE android autoā¦ it is constantly crashing. I wish they would just QA the software or something.
Itās more likely that auto manufacturers put the oldest shittest slowest chips in cars that crash constantly because they canāt handle any load at all.
Isnāt the whole point of android auto that it uses your phone and the display is just an external display when in that mode?
Still requires overhead and a non-zero number of head units are built on, this may shock you, Android.
I use android auto in numerous rental cars. Some head units are so slow to process taps or menu selections that it is pretty much unusable.
The normal headunit UI is generally ok, so either thereās a whole lot of overhead for android auto, or some programmer simply dropped the base example implementation of it into the system and did zero work at optimising it.
Personally, Iām betting that itās the latter. āSupports Android Autoā box has been ticked on the feature sheet, send it.
