Cannot get Android Auto to work

[DeJay]

Fairphone 4 v2.7. I have installed Waze, Sygic and Musicolet which are all Android Auto compatible. When connecting to the car, the phone shows something like “no Android Auto compatible apps installed” and after a short time the car shows “Android Auto has stopped working”.

Searches suggest I have to install the Google app which, from what I can find, reverts everything to fully Googled. No way!

Are there some settings I need to change? If not, is there any way around the Google app requirement please?

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[AnotherElk]

@DeJay

Are there some settings I need to change? If not, is there any way around the Google app requirement please?

“it requires to install and use some applications coming from Google. We are exploring ways to bypass those requirements.”

[SalmonSnake]

How to run Android Auto without Google apps

I managed to make Android Auto work without the Google apps. All credits of this goes to dylanderdaly and sn-00-x in Github who are behind these stubs. Instead of Google Maps, Google App and Google TTS I decided to try these stubs before installing the Android Auto app. Download these to your computer: Google App stub Google Maps stub if it doesn’t start to download, click on View raw Google TTS stub if it doesn’t start to download, click on View raw Activate USB debugging on your phone’s …

It will make AA work, but only the media apps, not navigation.

[DeJay]

Thank you.

I had seen your previous post about this and was planning to try it tomorrow, but it looks like I am stuffed, it is the navigation apps I want to use.