The overview of Android car radios for all newcomers

Android car radios
Android car radios

Dirk Heimbürger | created 20.03.2019

Android car radios offer you a wide range of possibilities in contrast to the usual brand car radios. All devices comes from China and are more or less standardized. Thus they are quite inexpensive and upgradeable. With branded devices there is at most an update for error correction. On the other hand, you can find free upgrades to the next Android version in various forums. I give you an overview.

Extensibility

The manufacturers of branded devices usually use proprietary operating systems that are not open source and cannot be extended. The Android car radios can be extended via apps. These supposedly cheap devices can even be connected to any steering wheel remote control !The Android car radios can do much more than the simple possibilities of “Car Play” or “Android Auto” with the so-called brand devices.

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MirrorLink with an Android car radio

MirrorLink
Naviskauto C0255 connected via MirrorLink with the Samsung Galaxy S3

Dirk Heimbürger | created

Today I describe which steps are necessary to display and operate the screen content of your smartphone via MirrorLink on an Android car radio.

I did this with a Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Naviskauto C0255, but the procedure will also work with other smartphones and other Android car radios. Read More