It does? I honestly love it and it will be very hard for me to go back
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 hours ago
Because it sucks ass anyway?
spongebue@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
squaresinger@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s so painful, because it could really be good. But they went out of their way to make it suck…
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
In what way does it suck? I’ve been happy with it for years, but I also only use it to play music and show a map, so maybe there are things you want to do that I’ve never tried?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
[deleted]neclimdul@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Why would you look at text messages on your car screen… Especially old ones? Is that something people do often while driving?
fodor@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Uh, why would I text inside of Android Auto? I’d just pick up my phone and copy/paste the address into Google Maps on the phone while it’s plugged in, like I did last month, and then Google Maps would display it on Android Auto.
Also, please don’t text and drive. Pull over to text.
Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That’s good, now I can remain being happy with something I’m happy with. You’re the best!
Shanedino@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
No one said any tangible points as to why it sucks and I am happy with it so I am left assuming people who dont like it are just going by vibes…
Archr@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Not OP. But I’ll give my feedback on why I stopped using android auto.
Let me preface this with most everything in the app is fine. Navigating around the interface is maybe a bit janky but not something that I couldn’t get used to.
The main thing that pushed me away from it is the constant crashing (crash every 1-3 minutes). I understand it to be a somewhat rare issue. But through my research I have not found any way to consistently solve the issue despite finding threads that were posted years ago.
The closest I had come to a solution was to clear some app caches (like Google maps) and that would fix it for the next day or two. But it would always eventually go back to constant crashing. It just became too frustrating to deal with.
Shanedino@lemmy.world 38 minutes ago
Ah ok, that is rather annoying, I have a couple usbc to usb 3.0 cables that have that issue. I also drive a lot of rentals, have never had the issue with a usbc to usbc.
Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Yeah, I’ve never had it crash. Sorry your setup is broken somewhere.