There are a few browsers compatible with Android Auto, but Google Maps is the one that comes by default by already saying the truth, in general, it is more than sufficient. ANDThe Android series browser is very completeAt a meticulous interface, real opinions and above all, fulfills its mission to take you from a B optimize the route.
The operation cannot be easier: you enter the car to establish the connection between the vehicle and the mobile, you touch its icon, you enter the address and … to work. Well no. I mean: this is the basis, but throughout these years, I learned that With Google Maps, you can do much more in Android Auto With fairly simple but effective adjustments and tricks.
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There are things that are better to do with the mobile
The first on the front: nor use google assistant or write with the keyboard On the car screen, it is worth it, as long as it is generally slow and sometimes desperate, unless it is a place where you are going recently and use the trick to add it to your favorites.
But hey, I don't need to do: before connecting my mobile to the car, I open Google Maps and I write the direction of pleasure in my mobile. And not only at the beginning: if I change the idea and I am stopped, I take the mobile, I write the route again and until I give it to “start -up”, but it is not implemented in the car. Thus, I avoid writing as much as possible on the screen, A simple tip but how to improve the use of use.
With another application below the level elevation
Google Maps is a compliant application, but it is far from perfect. Without going further, I think there are other applications that resolve radars better, specifying more and more. Serve your sister Waze or directly, a specific application as an example. Well, few people know they can Use two Android Auto navigation applications at the same time.
Android Auto Coolwalk makes a mosaic, so you can display on the same screen three types of applications: a browser, an entertainment application such as Spotify and another messaging, for example this message that comes from WhatsApp. But you can also open an application like waze or “fixed and mobile radars” (which I usually do), Leave it in the background but with configured sound alerts Then have Google Maps in the foreground in silence.
In this way, you have the Google Maps interface, but in the event of a radar, the opinion of the other application is heard and plays on the lower bar on the icon of this second application, open it to see where it is. East The best way for Google Vitaminaries cards with the functions of another application.
Take ahead of the next maneuver
Slide on the green sandwich to see the next turn or maneuver
It gives me a little shame to recognize it but it is true: It will not be the first or last time I get lost using Google Maps. One is rural and when he has a tangle at the front and a thousand cars, he becomes nervous. The study of the route when I make a long and new trip is a good idea, but also uses this tip to anticipate turns and outings.
The zoom is fine, also advancing the route, but it is much better: Google Maps marks the itinerary in dark blue and the snack of the upper right corner prevents the next detour, but to be clear which will be quite following with Slide on this snack so that the indications progress.
3D viewing mode in the city is essential
Losing me is not exclusive to go on the road: entering a big city and having to reach a specific point can be an eggplant and something that helps me enough is to use Google Maps 3D View on Android Auto, which is simply shows the silhouettes and the structures of the buildings in a simple but sufficient way To distinguish points of interest. Of course, it is not activated by default.
Activating it is as simple as using Google Maps on the mobile, playing on the layer icon (three parallel planes) and marking the 3D option. And that's it: by connecting the car with the mobile and shooting in a city, The buildings will appear in three dimensions.
That tunnels are not a nightmare
In these desperate misfortunes of the city, there is a place that deserves a special mention: the M-30 tunnels. I lived three years in Madrid next to the M-30, I had internalized what departure it was simply and simple because I had the name of the street next to the house and even so, I became dressed because Google Maps was not tilted in the tunnels.
There is an option for less risk of disorientation, but it is not activated by default: in the 'Navigation parameters“From the mobile application, we activate”Bluetooth tunnel beacons“And we give permission. It is not exclusive to Madrid M-30, so it can be applied to any long tunnel which has tags and barbarism.
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