Wireless Android auto actually uses wifi, basically when you connect bt to the dongle, the dongle establishes a 5ghz wifi connection to your phone. The dongles dont really have lag I've noticed since they're being run over wifi in the background.
You just click on the window you want and it expands it. Say you just want to see NAV -- click on the nav window. Same for the music window or any other app.
The one reason I dont use google maps is all the junk they display on the left of the map making the map smaller and the screen cluttered. Never could make that stuff go away. Not referring to a split screen that I'd never use, just the normal menu stuff on the left 1/5 of the map/nav screen. The current google maps nav screen is cluttered. Give a choice to see it without all of the stuff they think I want but don't.
And that makes the google maps menus and clutter go away? I'm not referring to split screen but to the junk google maps sticks on the left side of the map making the map display smaller to stuff the google things on the same screen. I really wish theyd clean up the maps/nav screen.Yes, @ShadowsPapa , just touch the screen
Wont work for us as we run with wifi disabled. I've told my wife to not enable wifi for multiple reasons one of which is security the other is it kills our home internet bandwidth. For sure we'll stuck with the cable since it would keep the battery up. AA and using nav from phone drains batteries.
As long as you use BT and connect to it, it actually does it all on its own, at least the Motorola m1 does as google gave them access to Android apis since they're the official android dongle. Unless u are in straight airplane mode, the dongle will use the BT connection to create basically a private network between your phone and the dongle using 5ghz spectrum to transmit the data.
Yes, it makes maps full screen with just that small row of icons below it. It also pushes the clock and 5g signal to the bottom. Its a little less cluttered IMHO.
Oh wait, you mean the menu INSIDE of maps that is always there in the upper left? No, that's still there. Agreed, they use too much real estate for the menu.
Frankly, they could skip the clock - especially the 5g (LOL, no 5G here) but it sounds better. I don't need to see a constant display of "how many bars" I have because it's a bogus concept based on bad ideas anyway. Sounds better - instead of taking space at top and bottom, stuff all over, arrange it neatly at the bottom - more like a typical computer screen. Sounds good.
On mine it displays along the left side - up and down a bunch of stuff along the left of the map and I can't make it go away. It has rows of stuff top and bottom and takes up the left side as well. Really cluttered.
Not sure how it can if wifi is turned off. I mean OFF. Not just "not connected" but literally go into settings and turn wifi off, or disable it via the wifi icon at the top of the phone screen. We just don't run wifi. There's zero reason to because we have unlimited data on the phones but our home wifi is cellular data and limited to 50gig and my wife can kill that in a bit over a week if her phone somehow connects to our home wifi.
You are correct, if you turn off Wi-Fi, Wireless AA will not function. You'll get a pop-up that says "in order to use Android Auto, click here to enable WiFi"
100% agreed. Can't use AA very long just on the wire even with wifi off (which by the way conserves power as well - wifi and BT are both power drains).
