This Android Auto is the most useful for using a compatible GPS browser that helps us reach our destination as effective as possible or listen to the Google Hide infotainment system other additional functions that make a difference but are not so well known.
Some are linked to entertainment and hidden options, others with the management of possible failures and cuts (unfortunately Android Auto generally has problems more often than it should) … but all have something in common: for me, they are Fundamental for better experience with Android Auto And use them often.
Check home house at home
A fairly unknown but present and expanding function in Android Auto is that of Control home automation by driving. In addition to the Google Home ecosystem, it also allows others such as Samsung SmartThings. The idea is as simple as being able to speak to Google Assistant to ask or enlighten the lights of the house, activate the intelligent thermostat or this intelligent socket.
Personally, this is neither the first nor the last time I wonder if I left one of my intelligent plugs or if I put my aspiring robot operation. If the device in question is connected to Google HomeYou can control it or know your status with Google Assistant.
Play simple games on the Android Auto screen
Although the ideal is to have only the applications we need on the Android Auto screen and to be ordered, the reality is that most people leave all those who appear (who are essentially those who are compatible with The Google infodion system). This means that you will find An appliance little known but saved me during boredom: Gamesnacks.
Gamesnacks is the application that houses a small collection of fairly simple mini-games, without advertising or integrated purchases, with which you entertain when you are in the car and it is stopped, because they do not work in motion.
See TDT on Android Auto
But if I have to be stopped in the car for a while, then It is best to use the automatic Android screen as a TV Because yes, you can watch YouTube videos and also DTT without too much mystery. It is true that this is a “prohibited function” of Google, which implies that it is not as easy as opening an application and already, but it is a relatively short procedure , which works well and that she gave me a lot of joys.
HAS See TDT channels on Android Auto The first will be to download and install the Aastore Apps platform (from its GitHub repository) and from there, install another application called IPCARTV. In this process, it will be essential to allow the installation of the application from unknown origin.
Then it will only be necessary to copy and stick An IPTV list where the TDT channels are located And although there are a few, I generally draw the TDT channels for its frequent updates or IPTV Org, my favorite with more than 10,000 channels and available in Github.
Delete cache
Android Auto can like Carplay, but still has a lot of margin of improvement in terms of stability and purification of errors (where the Apple system is much more reliable). Yeah, Android Auto gives enough failures But there is a tip that generally works in many problems: erase the cache.
To do this, you will just have to go to the mobile settings and do it from there: in 'Parameters'>'Applications“We scroll until we find it. Once inside what interests us is the section of 'Storage'. There, you just have to play in “delete the cache” and when you run, we reconnect the mobile to the car to check if the problem has been solved.
Once inside, we simply approach the erasure cache and when the process is executed, we connect the mobile to the car to check if the problem has been solved.
This article was initially published in Xataka Android in February 2024. It was revised and updated again.
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