A free, open-source lightweight launcher for Android car headunits (Android 7 or newer): an instrument-panel home screen that replaces the stock 3D animation, GPS-based prayer times with a live countdown, CPU temperature, rearrangeable shortcuts, an offline Quran with Mishary Alafasy recitation, and an optional voice assistant for car commands. No account needed. Developed and tested on an NWD K2401.

⚠️ Unofficial. KlikDash is a community-made launcher. It is not made, endorsed or supported by NWD or any headunit manufacturer.

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KlikDash replaces the headunit's stock launcher with a static instrument-panel home screen (~0–1% CPU, ~30 MB RAM). Plain Java, no libraries. The app itself is in Indonesian. On the NWD K2401 it was built on, the stock launcher renders a 3D animation nonstop (~40% CPU).

• Home: large clock, speed from GPS, Gregorian and Hijri date, CPU temperature, and up to 11 shortcuts you can rearrange by long-pressing (show 12, 9, 6 or 4 shortcuts: with fewer shortcuts the clock and the shortcuts are bigger and easier to read).
• Prayer times: offline, Kemenag method, location from GPS, live countdown to the next prayer.
• Al-Qur'an: all 114 surahs with Kemenag text and translation, verse-by-verse recitation by Mishary Rashid Alafasy, readable offline.
• Dhikr: morning and evening readings with a guided counter.
• Power saver: stop apps such as Netflix or Spotify from running in the background.
• Voice assistant TANYA (optional): say "putar surat Yasin", "navigasi ke masjid terdekat pakai Waze" or "buka Zlink". Bring your own Claude or OpenAI-compatible key; it listens and speaks with the headunit's free Android voice or with ElevenLabs, and looks up current information on the web (Claude's web search, or free TinyFish search for any provider).
• Settings & updates: the ⚙ button on the home screen; CEK UPDATE installs new versions without a computer.

▶️ Video tutorial on YouTube (5 minutes, Indonesian with subtitles) · 👉 Step-by-step guide with screenshots and FAQ

1. Download klikdash-<version>.apk from Releases and copy it to a USB stick.
2. On the headunit, open the APK in the file manager and tap INSTALL, then OPEN.
3. Tap the yellow JADIKAN TAMPILAN UTAMA button (on NWD firmware this needs USB debugging on).
4. With internet on, open Al-Qur'an once and tap UNDUH TEKS.
5. Go through the test-before-you-drive checklist with the car parked.

Updating: ⚙ › Launcher › CEK UPDATE (from 1.3.0), or install the new APK over the old one. Settings and audio are kept.

KlikDash needs Android 7.0 or newer and is designed for a 1280×720 landscape screen. The headunit-specific parts (default launcher, sleep/wake, Zlink, ksmd) target NWD firmware.

On Android 7.0–8.1 (checked on an emulator, not yet on a real headunit) everything works, except that the Power Saver is weaker: Android 8.1 and older lack the stricter background restriction, so blocked apps are only force-stopped and denied background running.

Zlink was used with wireless CarPlay on an iPhone; Android Auto has not been tested. Reports from other headunits are welcome: please open an issue with the model, screen size and Android version.

Everything KlikDash changes, and how to undo it. KlikDash does not uninstall or disable any apps; it replaces the home screen, and the optional power saver only stops apps you pick from running in the background.

The old NWD launcher is not removed. Its process stays because it also handles car info from the CAN bus.

• Voice assistant privacy and cost. What you say is transcribed by the recognizer chosen under Pengenalan suara: Android (the Google app, processed by Google) or ElevenLabs Scribe. The text, with the list of installed app names, the current time and, when a command needs it, the location, goes to the AI provider of the active profile. Usage is billed to your own accounts. Nothing goes through a KlikDash server. The AI can be wrong: check what it did, and do not rely on it for anything safety-critical.
• Android voice and speech recognition (optional). Suara jawaban and Pengenalan suara each choose ANDROID or ELEVENLABS. ANDROID uses the headunit's own engines through the standard Android API, so no ElevenLabs account is needed. If the headunit has none, tapping ANDROID opens the app in the Play Store: Speech Recognition & Synthesis (Speech Services by Google) to speak and the Google app to listen. Both are separate, free apps from Google under Google's own terms; KlikDash does not include or redistribute them. With the Indonesian voice downloaded in Speech Recognition & Synthesis, answers are spoken offline; what the Google app recognizes is processed by Google. Firmware that blocks Google Play services updates (such as NWD) may make the Google app ask for one; recognition still works.
• Security. Enabled ADB over WiFi gives full access to the headunit. Only connect the headunit to a private network (such as your own phone's hotspot), never to public WiFi.
• Prayer-time accuracy is within ±1 minute of the Kemenag schedule (compared for Jakarta, 26 October 2026).

Use at your own risk. This software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind (see LICENSE).

⚠️ Test before you drive. After installing KlikDash, with the car parked, check that all of these still work:

• Reverse camera: shift into R and the camera image must appear right away.
• 360° camera (if fitted).
• Door-open warnings and car info from the CAN bus.
• Steering-wheel buttons: volume, next track and phone.
• Radio, Bluetooth and phone calls.

If anything does not work, switch back to the stock launcher (see Changes made on the headunit) and report it in an issue. Do not drive with a reverse camera that is not working. Some firmware shows the reverse camera or door warnings through the stock launcher, so this can differ from headunit to headunit.

• Changing the default launcher and system settings is not supported by the headunit maker and may affect your warranty. Every change can be undone (see Changes made on the headunit).
• Do not operate the screen while driving. Use the steering-wheel buttons, or stop safely first. TANYA still needs a tap to start listening; keep it to short commands and keep your eyes on the road.
• Prayer times are calculated and may differ by a minute or so from official schedules; follow your local mosque or authority.
• The Quran text and translation are not included; check the text you build against an official mushaf.
• KlikDash is a community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NWD.

Code structure, building without Gradle, the recitation audio, building the Quran text, and how the NWD firmware behaves: see docs/DEVELOPMENT.md.

• Code: MIT.
• Fonts: SIL Open Font License 1.1: Big Shoulders, Martian Mono, Amiri Quran, and Literata (via Google Fonts). Literata is instanced and subset; its name and license are unchanged.
• Text, transliteration, and translation (not included): equran.id, i.e. the Kemenag RI standard mushaf and translation. Rights and terms belong to their owners.
• Audio (not included): everyayah.com / versebyversequran.com, Mishary Rashid Alafasy 128 kbps. Follow the license on that site.
• Prayer times: the praytimes.org algorithm.
• Dhikr (assets/dzikir.json): from KlikBand; order and counts from Almanhaj, Latin following Hisnul Muslim, Qur'an verses from Tanzil (CC BY 3.0). Rebuild with node tools/build_dzikir.mjs <klikband>/src/common/dhikrmorningevening.js assets/dzikir.json.

This project is not affiliated with NWD, Zjinnova (Zlink), Apple, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, or Kemenag RI.