twinksoftware / Gearslip

# Gearslip
An Android Auto alternative built for everyone.
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## Which cars work
Most cars work. Starting around 2020, some cars added newer security standards that reject
Gearslip's certificate, and Gearslip can't run in those cars. CARS.md lists the
cars drivers have confirmed.
## What Gearslip is
Gearslip is an Android Auto client for the phone. It speaks the Android Auto protocol
directly to a car head unit, over USB or wirelessly, with no Google software in the path.
Gearslip acts as a Car App Library host: an app that ships a car interface hands Gearslip
a template, and Gearslip renders that template natively on the car screen. Nothing is
mirrored from the phone. For apps without a car interface, Gearslip offers a separate
screen-sharing mode.
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| Your car apps in one place. A red X marks the ones that don't work yet. | Vela Maps navigating, with the player beside it. |
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| ViVi Music in Gearslip's player. | A new message, read aloud at a tap, over the map. |
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| The weather, your next event, and what you missed. | Browse the web while parked. |
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| Ask for a place, a song, or an app. | Find coffee nearby without leaving the map. |
## Features
- **Phone calls.** Dial from a keypad, or search your contacts, then confirm before the
 call goes out. When a call comes in, answer or decline it on the car screen.
- **Navigation.** Gearslip hosts real Car App Library map apps on the car screen.
 Organic Maps, OsmAnd, and Flitsmeister work today. Vela runs, with rough
 edges.
- **Music.** Browse, play, and queue tracks from a car-enabled media app, with a Now
 Playing view, an Up Next queue, and lyrics. Type a search, and apps that accept one
 play the best match.
- **The web.** A browser template with its own on-screen keyboard, for anything that
 doesn't ship a car interface of its own.
- **Weather and the day ahead.** A dashboard screen shows the week's calendar next to
 the current and coming weather.
- **Voice.** Tap the mic, or press the talk button on the wheel, and say "navigate to the
 nearest gas station", "play Daft Punk", or "call Mom". Say "help" for the full list.
 Speech turns into text on the phone, and nothing you say leaves it.
- **Messages.** New messages appear as a small card on the car screen. Gearslip reads
 each one aloud, and you reply by voice or with a quick reply. Music pauses while
 Gearslip speaks or listens. Speech runs on the phone, so it needs no Google account.
- **Notifications.** Only messages, missed calls, alarms, and reminders interrupt you.
 The rest wait on the dashboard.
- **Your apps, your order.** The launcher groups apps by kind: phone, maps, music,
 messaging, and the rest. Press and hold an app to move it.
- **Car controls.** Steering wheel buttons, control knobs, and D-pads all work.
- **Themes.** Choose flat buttons or skeuomorphic ones that look like real keys.
## Status
- **Wired or wireless.** Plug the phone into the car'