Android Auto - Coolwalk upgrade

[pharrison84]

This should be rolling out to most android handsets now. I'm interested to see images of the screen / hear how it works on the MG4.

Has anyone received the upgrade? I think it should have been quite a noticeable change to the display.

Do you have the Android Auto 'Coolwalk' redesign yet? [Poll]

After some heavy delays, Google finally launched its latest major redesign of Android Auto, codenamed “Coolwalk,” to the general public...

9to5google.com

 

[siteguru]

AA updated on my phone today, but I've not been in the car since then. I'll check tomorrow morning (as I'm taking the car to the dealer anyway - oil leak fix appointment time tomorrow).

Edit: AA version shows as 8.5.625224-release ... is that Coolwalk?

 

[Ayoull]

AA updated on my phone today, but I've not been in the car since then. I'll check tomorrow morning (as I'm taking the car to the dealer anyway - oil leak fix appointment time tomorrow).

LKA auto enabling day

 

[siteguru]

LKA auto enabling day

My LKA auto-enables already.

 

[Ayoull]

My LKA auto-enables already.

La-di-da

 

[pharrison84]

AA updated on my phone today, but I've not been in the car since then. I'll check tomorrow morning (as I'm taking the car to the dealer anyway - oil leak fix appointment time tomorrow).

Edit: AA version shows as 8.5.625224-release ... is that Coolwalk?

Yes, from a Google I think 8.5.6245 and later is Coolwalk

 

[liberostelios]

This should be rolling out to most android handsets now. I'm interested to see images of the screen / hear how it works on the MG4.

Has anyone received the upgrade? I think it should have been quite a noticeable change to the display.

Do you have the Android Auto 'Coolwalk' redesign yet? [Poll]

After some heavy delays, Google finally launched its latest major redesign of Android Auto, codenamed “Coolwalk,” to the general public...

9to5google.com

 

[pharrison84]

Looks pretty good.

It's how I'll predominantly be using it too (combination of Spotify and Maps).

 

[siteguru]

Used my car this morning and connected AA ... doesn't look any different to what I saw previously. So I guess I must have already had the Coolwalk update. (Mine shows the 1/3 tile on the left and the 2/3 tile on the right, with the shortcuts and menu button down the right side. On default startup Google maps loads in the 2/3 tile and the clock loads in the 1/3. If I select another app - e.g. music - it then appears in the 2/3 and the maps moves to the 1/3 - tap on the maps and the 2 apps swap. I've not tried double-tapping either tile to see if it goes full screen).

 

[colsky]

I haven't found a way yet to select music on my phone by voice commands, when connected to AA. If I press either the AA screen microphone button, or the steering wheel button, and say play song X by artist Y, the car tells me that it will play that track through You Tube music (and then tells me that I don't have an account for that, which I don't), even though I have that song on my phone's AA compatible music player.

Is there a way to do this, as it would obviously make life easier?!

 

[pharrison84]

Used my car this morning and connected AA ... doesn't look any different to what I saw previously. So I guess I must have already had the Coolwalk update. (Mine shows the 1/3 tile on the left and the 2/3 tile on the right, with the shortcuts and menu button down the right side. On default startup Google maps loads in the 2/3 tile and the clock loads in the 1/3. If I select another app - e.g. music - it then appears in the 2/3 and the maps moves to the 1/3 - tap on the maps and the 2 apps swap. I've not tried double-tapping either tile to see if it goes full screen).

Did more digging last night and I still don't think the rollout has got very far yet with non-beta users, and the version number doesn't necessarily indicate either way (because google have to switch it on server side for users).

So you may or may not have it. I think you would notice a few differences when it does switch over.

 

[siteguru]

Watching the video I suspect you're right - I don't have it yet.

 

[colsky]

I haven't found a way yet to select music on my phone by voice commands, when connected to AA. If I press either the AA screen microphone button, or the steering wheel button, and say play song X by artist Y, the car tells me that it will play that track through You Tube music (and then tells me that I don't have an account for that, which I don't), even though I have that song on my phone's AA compatible music player.

Is there a way to do this, as it would obviously make life easier?!

I know I'm replying to myself, but I've sussed it! The music player that I use for Android Auto is Rocket Player. If I say "hey Google, play Back In Black on Rocket Player", hey presto it works.

 

[siteguru]

I used to use Rocket Player (for years, even paid for it) ... until an update meant that it wouldn't see my SD card. I changed to Musicolet instead. I haven't tried going back to RP yet.

 

[colsky]

I used to use Rocket Player (for years, even paid for it) ... until an update meant that it wouldn't see my SD card. I changed to Musicolet instead. I haven't tried going back to RP yet.

Funnily enough I do use Musicolet as the preferred music player on my phone. But using Android Auto I can't seem to get it to work hands free. When I say "Hey Google, play X on Rocket Player", there's no problem, but say "Hey Google, play X on Musicolet" then it doesn't seem to work, however I pronounce Musicolet!