[Android Apps and Games] hollywoodfrodo:
First Thoughts, Requests, & Suggestions

Just bought a 7" Asus Tablet to use solely as my car "infotainment" system and had seen DC a couple of months ago so was eager to give it a go. Installed fine and is working on my tablet. After testing it out a lot, here are my thoughts/suggestions:

First, your overall work and design is very admirable and you should be proud. I do love that DC looks unique in comparison to most other "car dock" type apps which are all very similar. It's obvious that you created this specifically to be used with an in-car tablet as opposed to most apps which are for phone or tablet. The look of it is great! You do need to add the KIA symbol. :) (Not the one that says "kia" but the newer more sophisticated one that is just a K that looks like a sideways Mazda symbol - similar to Lexus symbol, but a K instead of an L.) I love the large volume controls and the quick mute button with the flashing to let you know it's muted. And I love that the app goes full screen and removes the notification bar and home keys bar which are easy to get back if needed.

Suggestion: I love that tapping in the center lets you quickly jump between the symbol or a speedometer. I would prefer the speedometer to be "inactive" unless you switch over to that so that it's not constantly polling the gps if I'm not using. It would also be super groovy if there was a third (& fourth & fifth & .... haha) option for that center button - maybe a touch then swipe to one of 8 different points to launch something else??? OR just additional apps to launch from there? Or a map showing traffic around you?

Suggestion: The look of the layout for launching apps is great. It's simple. Being on the bars gives it a better look than just large boxes like most car apps use. However, there are not enough slots for all the apps I want to be able to quickly launch while driving. I don't ever want to have to use the app drawer because since there's no root for my Asus yet and I'm stuck with a ton of bloatware, trying to find an app in the app drawer while driving would not be a good idea. So I'd like to see a way to add more apps onto the screen. There is plenty of room. I'd also like to be able to put my own app on the "main bar" instead of the DC Music Player or App Drawer shortcuts - seems that I can easily change the other bars, but am not able to change that main bar.

Suggestion: Besides allowing us to add app launching shortcuts to DC bars, it'd be great if we could also add Android Shortcuts which allow adding direct navigate shortcuts, contact shortcuts, launch Tasker tasks, or any other Android shortcuts that many apps have built into them.

Bug?: Brilliant idea that when I open an app from DC the floating DC circle stays on screen to get me back to it quickly! However, it seems to only stay up for the initial new app screen. If I go into a 2nd screen, it disappears. Example: Open Google Music, DC Floating Icon is there. Tap on album to open up that album, the DC Floating Icon disappears. Same thing happens when I open Google Maps or any other app.

Report: Trying the Experimental Music Controls with Google Music and Audible. They don't work. :( They will work only to Pause what's playing after I've started the track playing through the app itself. But the DC Music controls do not work to start playing after pausing or to skip backward or forward. Seems like there's gotta be a way to make this work since I can fully control those or any other streaming app with a bluetooth button, but alas, I don't have the programming knowledge to know how....

Request: Widgets. Partially due to the above - if I can't control streaming music/books using the DC controls above, I'd like to have widgets for those apps easily accessible to do so. Perhaps on another screen? Or maybe tapping the center circle to scroll through the added widgets? That would be a great place for music controls so being able to add widgets there to scroll through would be super groovy. Just ideas....

Request: I love having the brightness button to quickly switch from "day" to "night" mode brightness, but don't understand the current default to remove all color from the "night" mode. At the very least, I'd like that to be optional in settings because even at night when I'd definitely want the screen dimmed, I would prefer color. Maybe have it switch from being solid to being an outline of color - neon like. That could be a cool different look for night. The all gray just seems bland to me.

Bug?: Hitting the Mic seems to open up Google Now, but not automatically open up Voice Search. When I hit that it opens up Google Now, but I either have to then hit a second mic on Google Now or say "okay, google" to start Voice Search listening. I would prefer that be a shortcut to directly open Voice Search listening as it does when I hit the mic on the Google Now Widget on my homescreen.

Okay, that's all I got for you right now. Hopefully, you get that I really love what you've done so far and am only trying to think of things to help you make DC even better. It definitely is on the right track and has great potential to be THE go to app for using a tablet as a car infotainment center. Keep up the great work and feel free to shoot me a message if anything I said doesn't make sense.