[Feature Request] Android Auto support

[gbakeman]

I'd love to see an Android Auto UI with support for playing, pausing and skipping, as well as resuming where I left off.

Thanks for making this!

[zyrouge]

Related article: https://developer.android.com/training/cars/media/auto.

[danielloera]

Hey @zyrouge I looked into the requirements for this and I got a bit confused on this part:
https://developer.android.com/training/cars/media#onGetRoot
Namely, the part where we have to provide the browser root
i.e. MediaBrowserServiceCompat.BrowserRoot(MY_MEDIA_ROOT_ID, null)

I would assume that we could gather this info from Symphony.kt, but from my understanding there isn't an easy way to share ViewModel data with a service. Am I missing something here? Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question, its been a while since I worked on Android things.

[zyrouge]

Hey @zyrouge I looked into the requirements for this and I got a bit confused on this part: https://developer.android.com/training/cars/media#onGetRoot Namely, the part where we have to provide the browser root i.e. MediaBrowserServiceCompat.BrowserRoot(MY_MEDIA_ROOT_ID, null)

I would assume that we could gather this info from Symphony.kt, but from my understanding there isn't an easy way to share ViewModel data with a service. Am I missing something here? Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question, its been a while since I worked on Android things.

True, ViewModel cannot be easily shared. It seems like it requires only MEDIA_ROOT_ID, so try getting it. I'm not sure how services actually work, so I couldn't help much. If you are working on this, open a draft PR and I'll try to help you out there.

[CubeOfCheese]

Since Symphony is only available on F-Droid, Android auto support isn't really possible.

ev-map/EVMap#319 (comment)

Basically Android Auto only permits apps installed through Google play unfortunately. Too bad Android Auto isn't open source.

[zyrouge]

Oh, I wasn't aware of it. Maybe we'll implement something like car mode where the controls are larger. Nonetheless, this needs to be discussed more.

[dephunk]

Since symphony is now on the Play store are you looking into Android auto? It's the only feature keeping me from using it as my daily. Otherwise love the app.