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Is it at all possible to use Android Auto in a car that only supports Apple CarPlay? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by atocci@kbin.social to c/askandroid

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I might be completely misunderstanding the way Android Auto/CarPlay function. They're both essentially just screen projections from your phone to the in-car display, right?

Since my car only supports CarPlay, is there any way for me to "trick" it into thinking I have an iPhone plugged in and get it to allow my phone to display the Android Auto interface on the screen instead?

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[–] atocci@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right, it's been tricky to phrase exactly what I'm looking to do though. My hope is that I can use the CarPlay function in the head unit, but instead of having an iPhone plugged in and actually projecting the CarPlay interface like the car expects, I want my Android phone to "pretend" to be an iPhone as far as the car is concerned but still project the Android Auto interface instead. I guess I what I need is for it to copy just the protocol that CarPlay uses.

It sounds like that Ottocast box mentioned below will do that through some sort of translation between the two, so I guess I'll give it a try soon.

[–] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All that thing does is remove the need for a usb cable to make the normal stereo act like the newer fancier cars that offer wireless CarPlay. I haven’t heard of a way to use Android on CarPlay.

Things are already complicated asf due to the MFI chip being needed to do anything hacky with CarPlay. It usually requires that adapter ottocast or something similar to be able to interface. Any FOSS implementations of CarPlay on desktops also require an MFI chip.

I totally get what you mean though, unfortunately it’s closed source to shit and I don’t think there’s any way to translate the two protocols :(