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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good to see them working on the important issues affecting Android auto.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Glad they aren't wasting time on things like notifications blocking navigation!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I disable the app on every phone, but now Maps has a mini version attached to navigation mode :/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How many phones do you own? One for every weekday? :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a setting buried somewhere to disable it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's in Maps > Settings > Navigation Settings > Google Assistant Settings (manage driving mode).

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

The feature that no one has been waiting for.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

My phone wallpaper is vertical. The car screen is horizontal. This is just going to annoy me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dam, now everyone who steps in my car will go β€œWhy is Danny Devito on your dash”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Danny DevAuto

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And here I am just wanting the clock back in a safer location and the return of the weather.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, what's with the weather? I want to know the temperature outside without going back to my car's home screen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Are they assuming that every single car in the world also shows the outside temperature all the time in every scenario...?

I'm lucky because my car adds an extra status bar with the outside temperature, it shows android auto in a window in their UI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Counterpoint for the sake of discussion: can't you see what the weather is from inside your car?

I'm a weather nut myself so I want the weather back, but I can't help but thinking: but why?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, I don't have Android Auto... What you mean a safer location?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Closer to the drivers line of sight; like it used to be.

I've got a nice big 9" screen and the clock is still tiny, at the bottom of the screen and on the passenger side.

That's just bloody stupid!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh I see. I guess that depends also on the car and their screen position but yeah I guess the top and left (or right if driving on the other side) would be best.

My car is pretty old tbh, does new cars don't put a clock on dashboard any more?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The main screen is my vehicles only clock.

If I close Android Auto, the factory clock is in a good spot and bigger.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems like it should have been an 0.9 feature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Especially when all the default launcher background images suck, I just left mine dark

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been putting my thumb over the camera and taking a picture to get a black background since 2.2, at least until I get around to putting an actual black image on the device.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Imagine your car display suddenly revealing your nude big tiddie goth waifu to your passengers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who even asked for this? Give us proper features like allowing placing calls from third party apps.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

time to download a Delamain wallpaper

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone have a fix for the VPN no connection issue?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sadly, my only fix is to use Tasker to disconnect Wireguard when connected to my car, then turn it back on again afterwards. It's a shit answer to the problem, but it works. And, honestly, I probably wouldn't benefit much from VPN while driving anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

WOW! So cool! Oh wait, the other word - meh.