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[Android General] Area51©:
Ok guys, I have enough applicants for beta testing already so no need to apply anymore. To all who applied, thanks! I am working now on making the first release. It should be ready tonight and I am in Europe so it will be in time for you American/Canadian guys to try it out your tonight. I will send all selected for testing a pm with a download link. For those who don't get that yet, when initial reports are favourable I will make it available to everybody.
[Android General] cariboucar:
Available for testing,

AR3 + Galaxy S4 rooted+ARL
[Android General] Area51©:
The pre-beta AppRadio Unchained testrelease 0.10 is available.

I sent a pm with a download link to all people who sent me a pm for volounteering and to all the donators.

If you feel left out, send me a pm and you will get it too.

Release notes:

Root access is required so your phone must be rooted.

For now it only allows using the touch screen.

Only single touch is supported.

Keys from the radio don't work yet.

GPS from the radio doesn't work yet.

Steering wheel controls don't work yet.

Please report here if it's working or not, stating radio type and phone.

I am really curious if it works on an AR3.

Good luck testing.
[Android General] rs2k:
Installed and working great! Only problem I've noticed with about 20 minutes of use is sometimes the touch will lag, especially when trying to swipe. AppRadio3 SPH-210 with Nexus 4 with Franco Kernel and CM 10.1.3 RC2. Using USB FastCharge so my battery will charge while plugged in. I had to add a heatsink to the phone to keep it from overheating.
[Android General] leobg:
Installed on Nexus 4 CM10.1 RC2 with appradio2.

Connection is totally reliable. Connected fine and quite quickly 10 out of 10 times. Connecting before/after starting the car or at any time during drive poses no issue. Works right every time.

Upon connect we get to Android home screen. Pressing the home button on the radio opens up appradio home screen second press opens appradio internal interface just like pioneer appradio. The hardware bittons work as long as approved app is used or whit in appradio unchained. On the very first connection I didn't get to do calibration as it jumped right into android home screen. Initial appradio wizard was brought upon pressing the home button on the radio. Not sure if you can add check for first connection and bring up appradio unchained home screen so calibration gets done on the first connect properly.

I haven't used it long enough (>30 mins) but I have not noticed delay of any sort so far.

I LOVE IT!!! (Paypal email please, Area51!)

Next I will test on LG Nitro HD where we have no soft android keys and non working home screen might be an issue as there will be no way to go to Android home screen without reconnecting the HDMI cable. This of course isn't an issue as long as HW keys start working. Will report later on the Nitro.

After the nitro I have Droid3/XT860 lined up :)

I'm pretty sure Galaxy Nexus will behave the same way as N4, BBB it I will try it as well (it is now running completely stock Android 4.2.1)

Stay tuned :)
[Android General] tnuts22222:
test 1

Ar2

Galaxy nexus - paranoid android ROM 4.2.2 base

MHL

After the initial setup touch response is great. Things that I noticed are :

Initial touch setup made the right 1/4 to 1/2 inch of the screen unusable and the same for the bottom edge. The ROM I am using puts the phone in tablet mode so all of the action buttons ( back, home, recent, and the settings access ) are inaccessible at the bottom of the screen.

( tried to find a recalibration option but could not ? Will try and reinstall the app )

With the action buttons inaccessible I used the phone to hit the home button and was able to interact with the phone launcher. Touch was responsive for the most part ... there was occasional lag but it was hard to tell if it was the app or the calibration issue.

Back hard button will not work outside of the pioneer app.

Home hard button takes you to either the ar2 radio selection menu or back to the pioneer app. One time it actually went through a demo or start up animation for the pioneer app.

Volume buttons work

I downloaded the pioneer keyboard but don't know if it was actually needed ... would be nice to be able to have users choice of keyboard but don't know if that is possible.

All in all its a great start .... now to try my RAZR maxx
[Android General] evillela2001:
Appradio Unchained

Installed on my sprint GS3 and appradio3. Connection is very reliable. Haven't noticed any lag. Used it for about 1 hour. Currently using stock rooted rom. Did notice that upon connection it goes straight onto the android homescreen. Using button savior for temporary buttons while connected. I tried the Netflix app. When playing a video it has black bars on both sides. (4:3 aspect is displayed) No other video app had issues. Will do more testing tomorrow morning. Great start. Thanks for all the great work so far.:good:
[Android General] rs2k:
I noticed the calibration did not come up until after the second connection as well. I don't think the lag issue started until after the calibration. It also seems to come and go. At first I thought it was the phone lagging but if I use the phone as the touch interface there is no lag.

The ROM I am using puts the phone into horizontal mode as well, but the buttons are on the right instead of the bottom. As far as I can tell I am able to use the entire screen
[Android General] leobg:
You don't need pioneer keyboard. Since standard input is now supported you don't need other keyboards.

Quick update: Galaxy Nexus wit stock ROM works as expected, no surprises here.

BTW on a phone with no soft keys, in order to get to home screen, from within appradio home, press hardware back and confirm you want to exit. This will bring the android home screen and you can access your stuff there. No need to reconnect I mean.

Edit: my Nitro had battery discharged, but now it seems the CM10.2 nighty I had installed has some issue with MHL as phone reboots when I plug it in. Will flash stable version once the battery gets enough charge and try again.
[Android General] gbual:
Hi I have an appradio 3 sph-da210 model with a backup camera. I also have a samsung s4. I was wondering if someone could send me the file to test this app for bugs?
[Android General] Meldoon:
Charge

Sorry!

The applicationAppradio(process up.pioneer.mbg.appradio.AppRadioLauncher) has stopped unexpectedly.

Please try again.

Force close

That's all I get. Pioneer app performs as supposed to.

AR3....Samsung Charge
[Android General] TheDoctre:
Tested with an AppRadio 3 and Samsung Galaxy Nexus running PA 3.99. Worked great with multiple disconnect / reconnects. The only issue I ran into was because I'd used Paranoid Android to change the size of my soft buttons so I wasn't able to hit them at my normal 50% setting. Bumping them back up to 80% I can hit them if I aim for the edge closest to the desktop. Awesome job Area51!
[Android General] leobg:
Is your phone not rooted by any chance?
[Android General] xentheosx:
Getting an error while installing apk

There was a problem parsing package error. I am fully rooted and have checked allow installation of unknown sources... Any ideas?

Edit: Bad download... should work now
[Android General] leobg:
try re-downloading it. I am thinking download was bad..
[Android General] spinkick:
Does anyone have a nexus 7 (2013) that they use with appradio? I can't make it work at all using slimport. It's rooted, stock rom.
[Android General] Meldoon:
It's rooted. I have loaded and deleted a few times. On the initial download it requested SU authority. Tried with that accepted and not. No joy here yet...
[Android General] leobg:
Does original Pioneer AppRadio app from Google Play work?
[Android General] tnuts22222:
test 2

Ar2

HTC rezound, rooted stock, 4.0.3, sense 3.6

MHL

As with ARL and sense, the stock launcher does not like landscape. Had to swipe up to get the home screens to change. Used nova launcher and fixed the rotation issue but not the touch issue.

Got two force closes on the appradio app .... one of them caused me to have to unplug the phone and stop the app to get everything to work again

For me phone was pretty much unusable due to what seems like a xy axis problem.

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I have three other phones to test as soon as I can figure out why my ar2 stopped liking my HDMI cable ... when I get that resolved I will report on my RAZR maxx droid 3 and droid charge.
[Android General] xentheosx:
Area51 you are a genius

Working flawless for me. Htc Droid Dna 4.1.1

Just going to have to install some soft buttons on the screen. This is beautiful.
[Android General] spinkick:
Nope, and actually you can't download it directly from the store.
[Android General] leobg:
If stock app doesn't work, this one won't either. I am not sure this would work on Android 2.2 Froyo (Droid Charge you said - right?). Does the charge even have MHL/HDMI out?

Edit: Charge got officially update to 2.3 is actually on the compatibility list.. Sorry - spoke too fast.
[Android General] spinkick:
Nexus 7 2013. Thought it would be a good place to ask here since everyone uses a form of appradio here. It uses slimport instead of mhl, but the idea is the same.
[Android General] jc1153:
Pretty impressed so far

I have a rooted galaxy note 2 running stock rom. This is what I have found so far.

Plug in phone and start app radio unchained brings up normal app radio GUI. If I hit the home button on my phone then my radio and phone go to the home screen. Here is where I found out that if I don't have the forced rotation on I can't control anything from the head unit. With the forced rotation on and the home screen in landscape, everything starts to work like a champ. I can control the whole phone and all apps from the radio.

The only thing that I have found doesn't work (which we already know) is the hard buttons on the radio don't work.

Honestly if we can get the back and menu button working and maybe force the home button to take you home, or add a home soft button on the AppRadio app interface. I think it will work perfect for my setup.

Nothing lags and can't find anymore problems at this time, but I'll keep y'all informed.
[Android General] lpasq:
Loaded pre-beta leaving ARL installed. Already have ScreenStandby app set to auto-detect HDMI. Using SlimPort adapter on N4 with PA 3.69 ROM and franko.Kernel M3.

Confirming AR Unchained works on AR3 and my results match previous test reports as posted regarding the initial calibration (white dots) not immediately initiated. Dumped a logcat of the second connection which was flawless but the right and bottom of screen touch coordinates misaligned. I will pm dev with logcat of that session hoping to provide information to assist debugging touch calibration. Sorry I didn't record the initial startup connection of the white dot calibration which only was available after going in and out of AppRadio App Mode a few times. I'll do that tomorrow when testing again on AR3. I connected a dozen times and always without issue. Mirroring works great. Have not tested if there are issues with portrait apps that require to be forced into landscape. All my non-Pioneer keyboards work fine...Google...Swype...SwiftKey...
[Android General] Area51©:
Thanks for all the reports. I am glad that it's working for quite some people already and on AR3 as that was one of the goals.

Of course there are issues, I do not consider this even a beta version yet. I think most things can be fixed.

I noticed too that once you get connected you are in the home screen right away. To do calibration you just have to select the Pioneer AppRadio app and it will let you do the calibration. It's only needed once. I think after that you can actually close the Pioneer App and everything still works.

That connection works fine was to be expected, after all it was implemented by Pioneer and they did a pretty good job at it. Their software is actually implemented well. It's just that we don't want to be chained. I think this hack makes a good statement about that.

I will now take a short break from developing (as I worked on this at weekends and evenings beside my daytime job). The next step will be to implement multitouch (I already researched how to do it) and of course make the radio keys working. It's not difficult just need to spend some more time on it.

To the people that have crashes, please try to make a logcat and send it to me somehow. When you have root on your phone it's easy to do.
[Android General] Area51©:
I saw that Ipasq is using CatLog Logcat Reader. It seems to work well. If you have a crash and want it solved, make a log.
[Android General] rs2k:
Superb work! You say this isn't even a beta yet but the app works better than a lot of final releases out there. :D

I've made a commitment, now when and where do we send or donations? :good:
[Android General] Meldoon:
I pm'ed you a catlog, hope you can make sense of it
[Android General] Area51©:
I added my Paypal donation email address to my profile. You can send money whenever you are happy with the result. When you donate, could you add your country of origin and mention "AppRadio development". I need that for tax reasons (for countries outside of Europe I don't have to charge VAT).

Thanks.

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I will look at it. One question, does the original Pioneer AppRadio app work?
[Android General] leobg:
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Cheers Area51! Well deserved! Looking forward for the next stage of this development :)
[Android General] Meldoon:
Yes it does.

Thanks in advance.
[Android General] lpasq:
AppRadio app works. I sent pm logcat dump link of session from initial setup calibration and touch events during use of this morning's AppRadio Mode interface to navigate within its app drawer. It seems that the touch events are generally further within the screen area from the outside edges by a half inch. My opinion. ...But when ending AppRadio app and remaining in mirror of HDMI input I can get touch events to the furthest edges of the radios screen. This seems so because I see the red-hand error immediately at screen edges...though when in the AppRadio Mode app drawer or AppRadio apps the screen soft buttons I select don't recognize a touch until further in from left/right. harder for me to report on the top/bottom edges though.

Will be unable to test ARU on AR3 for at least 12-hours. Donation will post to you tomorrow mid-day PST.
[Android General] gbual:
Headunit: Appradio 3 sph-da210. Back up camera installed

Phone: Samsung s4, omega rom version 10, rooted, nova launcher, screen orientation control, button saviour app.

First off I would like to thank Area51 for allowing me to test this app. Amazing work you have done one this app.

I erased the original app before installing appradio unchained. On first use the app went to calibration for touch screen. After that it displayed my phone screen. I have used it for about 1 hour. There are ZERO bugs I have to report. This app is amazing. I have no lag, no freezing of app and even my volume works from steering wheel controls. Switching from one screen to the next is flawless, opening apps is easy. I have used all my apps, youtube, netflix etc.. and everything works. Obviously headunit buttons don't work but that is no big deal as I have button savior app and that allows me to go back, use home button and use menu button.

If Area51 doesn't consider this even a beta version, than I can't wait to see what your capable of still doing. I will definatley be making a donation. Thank you so much for all your hard work
[Android General] Area51©:
Tablet mode, does that mean that it's natural orientation so to say is landscape? Ipasq also reported the screen calibration being off. I will make a seperate release with some more debug logging enabled to see what is going wrong here. Will do that in a few days as now I am having a short "development" break.
[Android General] RalliartJay:
Note 2 inquiry

Question did you try this on AR3 or AR2?

Just curious since I have the same phone :D
[Android General] Area51©:
Thanks for the positive review (and al other reviewers as well). When I read it seems there's nothing more left to do, after all don't fix it if it ain't broken.

Things to improve are of course the missing features. Also error handling could be better. If it works, it works but if not there's not so much error info or recovery.

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JC reported he has an AR3.
[Android General] tnuts22222:
have at my friend :) ... thank you for all the hard work, in answer too your question yes the paranoid android rom gives you the option to run your launcher in tablet mode where the home back and recents buttons are on the bottom left and the clock and notifications are on the bottom right. when in this mode ( my preferred because it basically gives you a 7 inch tablet :) ) you can not use the buttons on the bottom of the screen nor can you use anything on the far right hand side of the screen ( the last 1/4 of an inch of real estate )

thank you again for all the hard work and i will be hitting up your donation link as soon as i get paid tomorrow
[Android General] Kishan_Diepa:
i've tested it with my AppRadio 3 and HTC One(Custom Launcher, Not Sense). Except for the known missing features it Works great!! nice work. it's very responsive without lagging.I will donate you some as soon as I get my salary. I do have a question for anybody who knows the answer. Since the GPS is not yet working for all Apps, is there a way to temporaly disable the AppRadio GPS? Because when I want to navigate with Google Maps or TomTom it keeps saying signal lost when it's connected to my appradio.
[Android General] Area51©:
I forgot to say if you need to do calibration again it's enough to go to Settings->Apps->AppRadio and do "Clear data". When you start the App again it will do a calibration.
[Android General] tnuts22222:
I will try it out when I get home. I will also enable the show touches option in developer options to see if I can give u a better idea of what is happening.
[Android General] lpasq:
ok then...i will assume that the PA ROM hybrid engine that we use to run phone in phablet/tablet interface bugs out ARU because our workspace/screen DPI and system UI are applied by ROM settings. I guess that we apply custom size/layout to specific apps is also a potential conflict. our ROM allows we tune any app we want to a DPI size we prefer up to 320p as well as its layout like 360p (phone), 600p (phablet) and even some at 960p.
[Android General] Area51©:
Maybe, but if I understood correctly you said that the unmodded Pioneer AppRadio app is shown ok. If so then ARU should be shown properly too. Where "should" means I want to make it work like that.
[Android General] lpasq:
when testing the unmodded AR app on my AR3 it seemed to show ok and work correctly but possibly the far edges of the screen (at least left/right) seemed to not register input. it is hard to tell...so i'm still not sure if it is really just PA ROM related since the ROM has an Android System UI DPI changing feature. I regret that I have not yet seen any conversations that ever spoke of touch coordinate issues on an AR and PA ROM. Super niche situation and not worth chasing. Thanks for following. I've yet to really play with the ARU test release and my phone to get comfortable that I know what I'm talking about. Enjoy your dev-hack break.

UPDATED: further testing using different custom ROMs ARU works as good as other reports...so, if using ParanoidAndroid's "hybrid engine" to change system UI be sure to try "Stock UI" and not "Phablet UI" or "Tablet UI" if you have issues not getting touch events registering on all areas of Pioneer display when in mirror mode.

the ARU app is awesome! no major issues and plays nice with ScreenStandby and SlimPort on my N4 set to blackout phone screen when HDMI detected. working equally well on both AR2 and AR3.

to note something i've not seen posted yet, or i missed it, is that apps like speedtest.net doesn't force to landscape.

i'm going to daily drive the pre-beta ARU on my AR2 since it seems less finicky than ARL in general. even without any debugging yet, the app is a winner!!!
[Android General] gbual:
Headunit: Appradio 3 sph-da210. Back up camera installed

Phone: Samsung s4, omega rom version 10, rooted, nova launcher, screen orientation control, button saviour app.

Just wanted to say that google maps or navigation does not work on my samsung s4. However through screen mirroring I am able to open Navfree and it works perfect. No lags or freezing. Used it for my drive to work today for about 40 minutes. I also opened CarMediaPlayer through screen mirroring and pressed shuffle. I than went back to navigation and I was able to switch tracks, mute, volume up/down and play/pause from my steering wheel. Those apps work the same through screen mirroring as they do in the Pioneer App.

For me this is a fully functional app. The appradio buttons do not work during screen mirroring but I use button saviour app so it's no loss for me. Google maps and navigation don't work but Navfree works perfect and doesn't use data as it saves the map to your external car.
[Android General] buleus:
hello

Hello all !were i can get the app ? i will do a 1000 km road trip and i will like to test it with my htc one and appradio3....
[Android General] dwfolke:
I have been following the development of arliberator or something similar for months. I would love to give this a shot and report back my experience. I would also be happy to donate to the beer fund!
[Android General] Gizmoh:
Really really great work!

It works great on my AVIC-F950, just as i hoped it would.

Just a few remarks:

- I have made a call, the call screen comes up. If i try to use the touch-buttons there comes the message, that this operation is not possible in Appradio

- The Sensivity sometimes seems to be weird. It recognises my touch as swyping or vice versa

- As already mentioned the calibration is shifted a bit, i will do the calibration process again and try it out.

But these are just a few tiny remarks, the app works like a charm. If this is a beta i can hardly imageine what a final version would do.

Count me in for a donation :)
[Android General] Area51©:
Thanks for testing. That Navfree and CarMediaPlayer work is because they are "Approved Pioneer apps". They communicate via the built in Pioneer SDK with the AppRadio app and are able to get key input and GPS data. The reason that other apps don't get GPS data anymore (from the built in phone GPS receiver) I don't know yet. Maybe the Pioneer App switches it off. I saw some code that might be related to that. I will look into that later.

I didn't change that behaviour from the original app. I noticed also that some programs switch to portrait mode and that touch from the radio is all messed up. As the most important/used programs work well already I don't plan on fixing that anytime soon. For now just don't use them.
[Android General] stadros83:
Quick question : is it possible to do the calibration again of AppRadio without erasing all data (in the app management of Android) ?