[Android General] donaldta:
Their US website only stated compatibility with iOS products for the iRadar S-series. That part hasn't changed despite the recent changes in the website. I know this because I was doing my research back in August when the product was announced. During then I had found out that Cobra does tends to release products for Apple first then follow up with Android. For example, the original iRadar 100 (windshield mount) was only iOS compatible, the following year they released the iRadar 200 (windshield mount) which did not add any other functionality other than being Android compatible.

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It is possible that many of the third-party sites which participated in its release announcement added a few assumptions which encouraged a little "wishful consumerism" that the manufacturer site did not state specifically. Anyways, I suspect that you have the iRadar S120R which was not intended to be Android compatible. I do hope that all it needs is a driver or a firmware update in order to make it compatible. Please keep us update in your progress, I do believe being a cheaper radar solution that others might want to choose it over Escort or Beltronics.

I have the current version of Pandora on the Google Play store working with the Asteroid Smart. Try installing Orientation Control or Ultimate Rotation Control. Many times these fixed landscape Android devices will cause an app to force close when it tries to programmatically rotate the screen. I had the same problem with my Google TV device with various sideloaded software.

Btw, I did post a thread at Parrot's Developer's forums, inquiring about the MediaEngine plugins which were loading on boot. There were references to several apps and some are not yet available in the Asteroid Market. The list included; Deezer, Mog, Orange Live Radio, Pandora, Rhapsody, Rdio, Slacker, Simfy, and Spotify. Some of the apps are only available in certain regions because of their parent services, like Deezer, Mog, and Simfy. Only a couple are available where in the United States where I am and those are Orange Live Radio, TuneIn, and Spotify. Apparently, in order for the music packages to be integrated into the Parrot Music App, they need to modify and recompile the software. So, for the others; Pandora, Rhapsody, and Rdio, we will have to wait for Parrot to release them through the Asteroid Market.

I don't think this is actually a bug and was actually intended, since none of the Parrot Asteroid devices were meant to participate in the Google Play or any other market than the Asteroid Market. Basically what happens is if any application takes the focus of the Android's media playback service than the Parrot app "freezes". This can be observed by playing a song through the Parrot Music Player and then starting up a sideloaded app, like Audible or MX Player. If you switch back to the Parrot app, it does not continue playing. As you said, you will have to manually quit or force close the app in order for Parrot player to continue. I think this is their passive aggresive way of enforcing compliance through inconvenience.

If you're referring to Google Maps, I believe that is the latest that is supported on Gingerbread (API level 10). The more recent versions require APIs not introduced until later versions of the Android OS.

The Asteroid Messenger is a chat client which supports Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ, Facebook Chat, and Yahoo Messenger. None of these are used by Apple, though any iOS device can participate with them with the respective clients.

Apple has its own proprietary chat service called iMessages. This services allows communication between any iOS device or Mac computer. There was an Android app called, "iMessage for Android" out for a short time. It was taken down for security sake because all of its connections were being funneled through a server in China which allowed the app to spoof itself as a Mac Mini. On one hand you were able to communicate with iOS users but on the other there's probably someone in China harvesting Apple IDs and Passwords. I doubt it will be officially supported because it requires to be signed on with an Apple ID which Apple takes very seriously.

But, I suspect you're actually looking for Short Message Service (SMS) and/or Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) client which are typically associated with communicating with other people via cellphones and other portable devices. In this case, compatibility is carrier dependant unless you want have a separate ID for your Asteroid.