[Android Auto General] Chillout:
Hi all,

I'm building an app for use with Android Auto, which is capable of displaying and graphing car sensor data, without the need for an OBD2 dongle or any other hardware besides your phone and the infotainment system.

It has a lot of data elements available. Development progress was previously discussed in an other topic, but since that grew to 28 pages, I decided to make one with a clear title.

Disclaimer:

Building this is not my daytime job, and I'm not selling this for money, it's all free. The app is open source, and the source can be found on github. Feel free to contribute. Be patient when requesting new stuff. Don't hate me (or VW) when something isn't working on your car. The app will not void your warranty. Be safe when using it during driving.

Download:

Download the latest release here https://github.com/jilleb/mqb-pm/releases. Be sure to read the readme on https://github.com/jilleb/mqb-pm

Known issues:

Results vary from car to car: Not each car shares all data elements.

Results vary from firmware version to firmware version: Not each version allows data communication. Using Torque will enable additional data elements!

DO NOT UPDATE TO ANDROID AUTO V3! Custom Apps will NOT work, unless you use a 3rd party app enabler.

Looking at the screen too much when driving the car is dangerous.

Do not update the settings when connected to the car.

Be sure to check the github page for specific information in case you have other issues.

Changelog:

v0.7B

Graphs! Tap on a clock and a graph will show up. Tap it again and it will go away

Title bar with useful info like current location, outside temperature and time

Replaced bubble notification sound

New theme: Ford Mustang GT

New theme: Dark (my own design)

New font: United Sans (works nicely with the Ford theme)

Ambient background color on Lines and Dots wallpapers

Wallpaper selection option added

Fix: bar/psi display

Fix: fahrenheit/celcius display for Torque data elements

Fix: Improvements to Skoda themes

Fix: Improvements to VW themes

Fix: Several fixes with unit display on clocks

Changelog previous versions:

v0.6B

Torque support (so now you can use an OBD2 bluetooth dongle if you have Torque). Make sure you enable full plugin access in Torque settings, otherwise the Performance Monitor will not see any data.

Touch the center clock to reset min/max values

Classic Beetle theme (in case you're feeling nostalgic)

New way of displaying min/max values

Improved layout

New data elements

Many many many performance fixes

Removed the graph feature for a moment, it will return in the future

v0.5B

New: Added altitude clock + element

New: Allow indicators to be non-ImageIndicator in some themes

New: Optional display of numbers on clocks

New: Audi TT theme

New: Celcius/Fahrenheit unit display added

New: Elements show "-" when no data

New: MIB2-style theme

New: Minimalistic theme

New: No red mark on clocks for data elements that don't have dangerous high values

New: Optional ambient colors for needles, if car/theme supports it

New: Optional ambient colors for rays, if car/theme supports it

New: Oreo Support

New: Skoda Virtual Cockpit theme

New: Tank level clocks added

New: Test theme (for scale troubleshooting)

New: VW Digit font

New: Skoda font

New: Larabie font

Fix: Added missing Cupra drawable

Fix: Cleaned up Skoda dial graphics

Fix: Dynamic needle scaling for use in different resolutions

Fix: Enlarged dials to 275 for optimal use of screen size

Fix: Improved margin on clocks

Fix: Increased max voltage to 16V

Fix: Increased min max G forces to -3 and 3

Fix: Updated needle drawables to work with dynamic scaling

Fix: Wait until staging animation is done before displaying data

Fix: Removed: Measurements view

Fix: Removed: Seat Kombi font

Fix: MANY more, 6 months of small fixes

v0.45B

New: Font option. (note: Seat Kombi is nice, but currently causes overlapping in min/max)

New: Start/pause in graph

New: Outside temperature available in clocks

New: Gear recommendation and Gear indicator merged

New: Italian language

New: MQB Coding theme

Fix: Czech language improvements

Fix: Spanish language improvements

Fix: (Hopefully) fixing the app slowing down/crashing after some time

Fix: Output power showing as Nm instead of Kw

Fix: Gearbox oil temperature graph

New fonts:

v0.44B:

Fix: Crash when having Gear recommendation selected

v0.43B:

New: German translation (early version)

New: Russian translation (thanks to [MENTION=3851063]mikhailk[/MENTION]ozlov )

New: Dutch translation

New: Spanish translation (thanks to [MENTION=7534209]javigody[/MENTION])

New: Realtime graph for 1 selectable data element, with configurable update frequency

Fix: Cleaned up Skoda dial backgrounds

Fix: Current Gear indicator

Fix: English Spelling (thanks to [MENTION=3851063]mikhailk[/MENTION]ozlov)

Fix: [MENTION=936943]string[/MENTION]/psi and [MENTION=936943]string[/MENTION]/bar display on the clocks

Fix: Crashing stopwatch and credits

v0.42B:

New: Acceleration/brake indicator display optional

New: Added Cupra Division theme

New: Added Tesla theme

New: Retro style theme

New: Max-min value display is now split into 2 options: display values and display marks on the clock

Fix: Fixed crash when no temperature data is available

Fix: Wheel angle clock display

Fix: Removed Fahrenheit and Celcius for the time being

Fix: Improved G-force icons

Fix: Textviews with G-force, degrees, percentage and Volts are now functional

Fix: Improved Clubsport theme

Fix: Gearbox temperature clock

Fix: Various other small bugs and issues

Fix: Code cleanup

Fix: Moved strings to strings.xml, for easier translation (new languages will be in a future version)

v0.40B:

Fix: Added all missing code for data elements on the 4 data views

Fix: The 4 textviews should now be functional.

Fix: Set RPM textview to have no decimals

Fix: Fixed a bug with EcoHMI_Score

Fix: Handling NoRecommendation on recommendedGear

v0.39B

New: Added Skoda ONE theme

New: Added Consumption data to clocks

New: Added Recommended Gear to text elements

New: Needles go invisible in high-visibility mode (you don't need them there)

Fix: Acceleratorposition clock value

Fix: correctly escape ' character

Fix: Improved some icons

Fix: Credits screen

Fix: Added stopwatch background for Audi themes

Fix: Improved Audi needle

v0.38B:

New: Added Consumption data to clocks

New: Added Recommended Gear to text elements

Fix: Correctly escaped ' character in "G's"

If it doesn't work while it did work in a previous version, try an older version of aauto-vex-vag:

https://github.com/martoreto/aauto-vex-vag/releases

Screenshots

v0.7B, new themes:

V0.6B:

Earlier versions: