bimmergestalt/aaidrive

Implementations of some Android Auto features as unofficial IDrive apps

aaidrive's Issues

[Future req] BMWApps data supply, eg. Weather

HI,

could you try to add connectivity between bmw apps (e.g. weather) and online services. I heard that somebody from Russia developed such an app that restore online connectivity through Bluetooth teetering in case your subscription is over or broken telematic box (sim card problems).
Many apps are still able to get content from ConnectedDrive servers without problems, except the subscriptions (e.g. RTTI) and auth messages.

Other approach could be for example to get weather use different weather source and just give proper xml file to head unit to present it in many places and give alerts (e.g. storm, heave rain, snow, ice on road).

Google Maps should use Car Location by default

The car typically provides a GPS reading, and using it might be more accurate and would require one less permission prompt.

Maps could provide a list of favorite destinations to navigate to

Needs more translations

With Android and BMW being more popular in Europe than in America, this app could benefit from more strings translations. Anyone who wants to contribute should feel free to send a PR!

Another option is to use the CrowdIn service to quickly edit an existing translation. It also has screenshots to show the strings within the UI. If you want to create a new translation this way, just send me a message to add it to the interface for editing.

Try controlling apps that block MediaBrowserService api access

There might be a way to send media button commands directly to a app, such as Google Play Music, to enable some basic media control. It could then sniff the global phone music metadata to show music info in the car.

Maps PhoneUI could trigger car navigation from a phone's Place Search

Audio Context has concurrency bug with the Etch connection

Investigate pipelining RPC calls

Connecting over Bluetooth adds a noticeable latency penalty. However, most of the RPC calls, such as initial setProperty and any setData calls, do not examine a return value, and should be safe to pipeline instead of synchronously running one at a time.
I can't just convert these calls to @Oneway, because the RPC server still sends a response, and the proxy object would send an Unexpected Symbol response to the car when it receives the _result_setData responses.
However, it should be possible to rearrange the Etch library's MailboxManager to send a whole bunch of calls at once and then wait for all of them to return at the end, ignoring any return values and raising (one of?) any exceptions.

Read out new phone notifications

Now that the TTS api is figured out, there could be an option to read out new notifications as they come in, or perhaps read out the notification in the list view.

Improve the phone UI about unavailable apps

The list of music apps shown in the phone display does not clearly show that some apps are not available for control, which causes disappointment when users see a list of music apps on the phone and an empty list in the car.
The unavailable apps should be crossed out or greyed out in some way.
Additionally, perhaps it could provide a recommendation to install some working apps.

This would prevent future instances of #37

Reading a notification in the dash should turn off blinking LED

Investigate using NotificationListenerService.setNotificationsShown to indicate that a notification has been shown, I suspect it hides the blinking LED.

Implement navigation rerouting

If the current location has deviated too far away from an existing navigation trace, a new navigation trace should be calculated.

Soundcloud sometimes pops up a Notification

When Soundcloud switches music, it seems to post a clearable notification of the paused song before replacing it with a not-clearable notification of the next playing song. Perhaps this can be masked with a buffer period somehow?

Notification message lines don't wrap

Each line of a notification clips off the edge of the screen, instead of wrapping to show the complete message

Notifications not working Android 10

Tried the app on 2018 X3 with OnePlus 6t running Android 10. Notifications not working. Able to see list of apps but upon entering app controls do not work. Specifically tried with Amazon Music - music plays but unable to skip forward/back and no artwork.

Multimedia screen shows duplicate items NBT ID4 2015 BMW i3

On a 2015 BMW i3 with NBT iDrive 4, the Multimedia screen shows a bunch of apps, one of which is "Audioplayer". If I choose e.g. CloudPlayer, it doesn't do anything (the car shows a loading animation and nothing happens). But if I go to Audioplayer, the apps list in there works beautifully. This may be unfixable due to the iDrive protocol, so maybe this is a doc/FAQ clarification ticket :).

Notification app settings should be configurable in the car

An extra list at the bottom of the Notifications list should have options for enabling/disabling popups and the other settings

Add Waze?

Would make for a great addition.

WhatsApp sometimes doesn't pop up

Additional Telegram notifications don't trigger a second popup

The new messages show up in the list, but don't trigger any additional popups,

Implement global multimedia coverart and position

The official Spotify app shows the progress and the cover art in the multimedia sidebar.

Android Studio build issue

After loading the project in a fresh install of Android Studio (Windows), I get the following error:

3:06 PM Unsupported Modules Detected: Compilation is not supported for following modules: app, IDriveConnectKitAndroid, AndroidAutoIdrive, IDriveConnectKit. Unfortunately you can't have non-Gradle Java modules and Android-Gradle modules in one project.

Is there any additional setup that needs to be done in order to build?

Can't get Connected Classic app to open

Both connected classic apps stay stuck on loading forever. I know this isn't a problem with your app but wanted to know if you had any tips to get it working

Galaxy s10 Android 10

Implement notification input

Some notifications have a Reply action with a text input. This input could use a short list of common replies (some notifications even provide a list of replies), and a more functional text input screen with word autocomplete (perhaps using slashes and dashes to quickly select words) could be implemented.

Take over control of existing music playback

When starting up the app and connecting to the car, it would be cool if any currently-playing music app is used as the initial app instead of showing the AppSwitcher view.
Even if there isn't any currently-playing music, it could use the existence of a (paused) single MediaStyle Notification as a signal to resume playback of that app.

Notification actions should have icons

Some notification actions have icons, and it would be nice to show those icons in the car.
Right now it's impossible, because the toolbarView uses imageId instead of RaImage, but a list component can be used instead. It would be great if a layout could be found that has a text box at the top and a list at the bottom. I see several views with some labels followed by some lists, I wonder how to make the list have word-wrap as part of #7.

Can a Notification's attached picture be shown in the car?

It seems that a notification can have a single large picture attached. The car's widget layout should support an image being shown in one of the lists on the detail screen.

Implement workaround for Android Oreo implicit broadcast listeners

Android Oreo disables the use of registering a BroadcastReceiver through the AndroidManifest.xml, which makes it harder to listen to the Connected app's car connection announcement. Due to this, the app is currently compiled against Nougat, which prevents it from being published on the Play Store.

Refactor Notification app

The Notification app was the first module developed, and the code quality shows this.

Additional info in Debud mode

Hi,
I'd be good to have in Debug version of the app information as follow somewhere at the bottom of the main screen (just above the "connected to car":

• build version with date and time
• car screen resolution capabilities["hmi.display-width"] x capabilities["hmi.display-hight"]
• ability to turn or always on local log file (in device) to get all debug information on the fly -with click shortcut to open it
• if gmap enabled FPS rate (if possible)

Connection issiue

Hi,

I have on two different cars (F48 2017, G30 2018) the same problem that the app lose connection after 10-15sec after the focus.
Normally the bmw connected app is up and running, AndroidAutoIdrive connects and is connected for some time, but then app loose focus (after 30-60s of not touching the app/screen) disconnects and can not connect again.

Notification states get stacked up

Clicking into a notification, then clicking a Clear or other action to go back instead of pressing the back button will leave the view state on the stack. After going through a few notifications like this, the stack gets quite large, and the back button requires many presses to get back to the main menu.
Perhaps there's a way to triggerHmiState instead of using hmiAction that would avoid building up the state stack.

Map should support bigger screen resolution

New IDrive screens have a bigger 1440x540 screen, and the map looks incorrect pushed into the corner.

Switch to lower-quality Map frames during animations

When the Map is animating (zooming or panning) the JPG quality for the frames should be drastically lowered to send faster updates during the animations.
Perhaps the full quality ones should be tuned, perhaps, maybe it is sending unnecessarily high quality maps currently?

Implement PLAY_FROM_SEARCH support

Some apps, such as Youtube, support PlaybackState.ACTION_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH. Perhaps it would be possible to enable the Search input to play the first search result through this, even if the app doesn't implement the MediaBrowser.search api.

Add Mi Music to supported apps

Please add to list of apps mi music (default xiaomi music app).

Figure out the car's resource caching

There's an rhmi_checkResource system, which seems to allow the car to persist the RHMI resources across connections, which may help speed up reconnections by not needing to upload the resources every time. It looks like it just takes a 16-byte hash and a length, which should be easy to figure out.
It will probably be very helpful for Bluetooth connections too.

YouTube doesn't update metadata when a new song is played

The PlaybackView does not show new information when Youtube starts playing a new song. It's probably because the PlaybackView relies on a changed MediaID as a trigger to update, and Youtube (not being meant to be browsed) does not provide a real MediaID.
Actually no, it does check the entirety previously-shown MusicMetadata against the current one, but something still needs to be looked into

Maps location search doesn't work after the first time

It seems that Maps doesn't find any locations after the first search.

Refactor car event tests to be cleaner

Instead of manually triggering events with manual parameters, it would be handy to have some sort of interaction controller to conveniently describe user interactions during the tests.

Implement MapBox mapping and navigation

MapBox should be implemented as an alternative map implementation alongside Google Maps. MapBox does not include a restriction on showing their maps in a car and has a very generous free tier, which means it can be enabled by default in the public builds. It also provides a modern 3D navigation view, unlike Google which disallows replicating the Google Navigation experience.

GMap sreen issues

Hi,

I compiled the app with the GMaps in it and found some problems:

1. On the main screen Gmap preview and options to search a place or stop navi (see photo)
2. After you put search info where is no additional info on the place (e.g. city, address if the is more then one result and is hard to choose correct)
3. Navigation doesn't work, after you find place and click on it navi doesn't start.
4. Map doesn't fit the place on the screen (see photos). (Look at the side panel on/off). Changing option from the app to show on the full screen
5. Refresh rate is 1FPS or less. Disappointment :( Also very often maps just hangs and don't refresh the image for couple of seconds.

Link with the photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/NTFDtozeVWNhiBD39

Yanosik in the app

Hi,

could you check if it's possible to include popular in Europe app called Yanosik, especially reports about accidents, police patrols, traffic jams, etc.

Is there a way to simulate a connected car when developing?

Great work on this project, I've been toying with the idea of something like this but looks like you beet me to the punch!

Would love to contribute but one issue I'm running into is that my car is parked in an underground garage (no cell reception and quite far from my desktop computer) which means running/debugging the app is going to be a bit of a pain, is there any sort of simulator/test harness to I could use to test some of my code? I see you have a branch started for voice input which is something I'd be interested in helping out with.

Implement a better UI for Buffering songs

For example, when DSub is downloading a song, the timer keeps ticking up even though the song hasn't begun playing yet.
Perhaps the time should be --:-- and the progress bar should jump from 25% to 50% to 75% and so on?

Maps should allow searching for places on the phone screen

Related to #4, a place picker could be shown in the main phone interface

Choose which music apps to display

Is there a way to disable some of the apps from showing in the car? For example, I have Plex installed, but do not need it showing up in iDrive.

CarProber doesn't figure out InstanceID

When CarProber establishes the connection, because the CAR_ACCESSORY_ATTACHED intent was missed, it uses a hardcoded Instance ID. This is fine, except that the audio context requires that this Instance ID be correct
Can some way be figured out to figure out the correct Instance ID?
CarProber may be important for Android Oreo support, so having full support would be great.

Google Assistant for Voice Control

I've been experimenting with adding a way for the user to trigger the google assistant voice prompt: master...kohner86:master#diff-1c29cab35fd57bfdea68ca5f0a671c98

The above largely works but the UX seems a little wonky so I was thinking of putting it in its own 'App' within IDrive (still trying to figure out that part of the API).

No visible app

Hi, I have a bmw f45 from 2017.
I have a problem, when I start the app on the vehicle I only see the Youtube app and nothing else (spotify or anything).
Why??
Sorry for my bad english.