[Android Head-Units] bossman4:
FCC working on Pumpkin single DIN AA0341B 9.0 Android

I have Android 9.0 unit (Pumpkin 1DIN Universal-AA0341B) that does not fit cleanly into the market categories that Speedfire is focused on.

In my other unit (Eonon PX5 7"), I have been using FCC for the past 4 months, trying out the alpha versions and commenting. I held out on retrying the Single DIN unit until yesterday. I have learned quite a bit about FCC and associated applications during this time, so I thought it was worth a try again. FCC has stabilized more, so I am not as confused as before.

What works...…

The installation went rather smoothly, but I had a problem of getting around the widget placement. I had these issues before, so I kept plugging away until I got to the main screen. I proceeded to replicate the menu structure that I had in the EONON unit.

The two applications (APK) that were missing in the standard menu Pumpkin system for use by FCC were the Radio and the Phone.

I had dug up a radio.apk that was posted on another thread on XDA for this style of unit, so that problem was solved. FCC recognized the existence of the APK and let me choose it for the multi media choices. The behavior of the album art (slightly imperfect on player changes) is the same as the EONON, so I don't see a difference because of the single DIN unit

What sorta works.....

The phone application was a more complicated solution. So on the Pumpkin unit, there is a single application that combines Bluetooth setup, phone dial, contacts and BT music. Contacts are stored in a separate database (not Google contacts) and will sync with your phone if you allow syncing. So I added a menu item in FCC that brings up the Bluetooth app. The phone will ring and bring up the screen when I am called by somebody. To dial somebody, there are several menu steps to take to make the call (after picking BT on the FCC menu). So I do have phone service, but it is a mixture of FCC and the old software.

Additional testing...….

For example, I have not added the compass as a third FCC menu, but I am confident that it will work.

The album art for Amazon music is sporadic on both units, but I believe that Amazon has many screens besides the album view that typically shows up on BlackPlayer and PowerAmp. If I toggle through the Amazon screens and settle on the "album view" first, then eventually FCC will display the Album art.

Another quirk with Amazon Music is that it stores downloaded music on the first External Drive (USB3) rather than giving a choice of an SD card or different USB sticks. So I had stored Black Player music on USB 3. Amazon will quickly fill that USB drive with additional downloaded files until full. I am then left with an underutilized SD card and USB 4 stick and a consistent storage is full warning from Amazon. It does take a bit of time to download files from Amazon and the system does get confused if you switch sticks, so this is a multi hour to work around the issue.

So, I will probably end up storing Blackplayer files on the SD card, allow Amazon to use USB3 entirely and install additional BlackPlayer and Podcast files on USB4. Just need a long garage session to get it straightened out.

Learn from my mistake, if you use the same application combination.

So in summary...

The only FCC quirk as compared to the "mainstream radios" that I see is the phone dialing and contacts, but there is a work around!

As a result, I am going to keep FCC on my Pumpkin unit rather than the standard launcher. It has a lot of features that are not available on the stock launcher and keeps improving.