PIONER 7100 FOR ANDROID
I understand that this review seems pretty wishy-washy about my feelings for Android Auto. I felt like I had a smart car, being able to give it commands via voice with little-to-no hassle. Navigating is fluid, animations follow Material Design standards, and compared to other car dash software, the performance is phenomenal. Point is, once you understand you’re not supposed to fiddle with the screen, using Android Auto is great. The only options you have by touch are “Listen now” (recommendations), “Recent playlists”, and “Instant mixes” (mixes based on your favorite artists & songs). Instead, you have to prompt Google with your voice, and say “Play *Artist Name*”. However, you can’t navigate to an artist’s page like you would on the Google Play Music app on an Android phone. Rather, I kept trying to use it like an Android smartphone.įor example, when going to use Google Play Music, I wanted to select an artist to play. The problem is, I kept trying to complicate things. Once you understand that, Android Auto works great.
PIONER 7100 DRIVER
Let me explain: Android Auto strives to keep things as simplified as possible, so that the driver won’t be distracted.
PIONER 7100 SOFTWARE
Perhaps a link to a section in the Play Store from the Android Auto app (while not connected to the car) would be useful similar to the Android Wear apps.Īndroid Auto is leaps and bounds better than any other in-dash car software system.Īndroid Auto is a great piece of software… once you understand how it works. On that note, I’d like an easy way to find apps compatible with Android Auto through my phone as currently there is no easy way to find them on Play Store. So then is it the app developer? Either way, it would be nice to see Google encourage this sort of functionality, so that just like a normal car radio, I don’t need to fiddle with anything just to get audio playing. However, we all know one of the beauties of Android exists in the openness of the app ecosystem. While theoretically the system isn’t supposed to know what I want to play at any given time, at the very least I’d like it so that opening up the podcast app begins playing the last thing it played.īut at this point, who is to blame here? Seeing as how Google is keeping the design of the app under control, and the ones who approve it, it could be their’s. The system seems to think I want to set things up differently every time. So you’d think that the next time I get in the car, Android Auto would know to pull up that app and start playing that podcast immediately. If I get in the car and open a podcast through a third-party app, I like to listen to the whole thing before playing something else. The other thing about Android Auto is while Google is much more restrictive about how a third-party app is designed for the system, not every app works perfectly with the system, and they don’t exactly work the way a car radio might normally work.įor example, I enjoy listening to podcasts at times while driving. I have mixed feelings about this, as first-time set up for just about anything takes longer than normal, but I suppose when I would like to get in the car and get going, my road rage kicks in early when I’m sitting parked in my car for 5-10 minutes. There isn’t a whole lot for you, the user, to do other than sit and wait. Plugging your phone into Android Auto for the first time takes quite some time to download the Android Auto app, run the app, and actually set up the phone. I’ll get into this more later, but the odd thing about Android Auto is this it’s so simple… it’s complicated.
PIONER 7100 HOW TO
I go through a lot of this in my “What is Android Auto, and how does it work?” article, so I won’t go into much detail about how to do it.
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