I’m not sure I follow. Are you looking to add any app to your phone that would fulfill the CarPlay features like maps/music/phone on the car’s display? I’m only using Apple’s OS these days so I can’t speak to Android, but presently you can use any music app, any maps app, and any communications app that supports Apple’s API. Are you saying you want other apps to be able to send that experience to the car, and/or are you looking for a FLOSS system to run on the car itself?
I don’t know what you’re referring to.
But no, I don’t see an open protocol for car infotainment that any 3rd party dev can utilise to make an alternative to Android Auto/CarPlay
FoxBJK@midwest.social 7 months ago
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Right now, Apple and Google each have their own proprietary system for communicating with cars and showing their system.
If a new smartphone OS came out, or, say, Samsung wanted an Android Auto alternative, it wouldn’t work on any existing cars, and even for new cars, they’d perhaps struggle to get automakers on board in supporting them.
I want that back end that exists on cars to be replaced with an open, standardised system that Apple, Google and anybody else that wants to can use to provide a CarPlay/Android Auto-like experience.
FoxBJK@midwest.social 7 months ago
Gotcha. That kind of thing will have to be mandated by our governments because no automaker has anything to gain from that kind of open system.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Friend…I don’t think you know exactly what you’re talking about here, because you’d want a standardized API running ON THE CAR as an interface for what you describe. Client -> API -> Control.
Also, QNX is a real-time OS bought by Blackberry back in the day. It literally runs the car (most models on the road), so would probably interface with whatever to control things at some point.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes I do.
Yes, I know. That’s what I said.
Yes, which is a completely different thing to Android Auto or CarPlay.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nice edits there 😂
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No, you completely misunderstood my comments then said I don’t understand.
It’s you who isn’t understanding. Trying to pull an umm ackshully☝️🤓 only to get it wrong.
My comments were very clear.
And I’m a full stack web developer who does bits on the side for various Linux-related projects. Yeah, I know what an API does.
Go feign intelligence to somebody else, I can’t be bothered with this useless, unrelated chatter. It’s not what I made my comment for.