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  • samyil
    Member Since: 08 Jan 2018
    Location: uk
    Posts: 58
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Carpathian Grey


    16th Nov 2018 2:36 pm
  • simonh
    Member Since: 02 Apr 2017
    Location: Shropshire
    Posts: 1002
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Sd4 (240) HSE Farallon Black

    How can it not utilise the whole screen ? ACP does and even allows you to customise the icon layout,
    Velar HSE D240 - MY19
    Served by the excellent Shukers Land Rover of Ludlow - 10 Land Rover’s and 20 years of amazing customer service.
    16th Nov 2018 3:40 pm
  • samyil
    Member Since: 08 Jan 2018
    Location: uk
    Posts: 58
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Carpathian Grey

    Google is useful but I prefer the LandRover display. Google look a bit childish
    16th Nov 2018 11:00 pm
  • DieselRanger
    Member Since: 12 Oct 2017
    Location: God's Country, Colorado
    Posts: 766
    United States 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Silicon Silver

    simonh wrote:
    How can it not utilise the whole screen ? ACP does and even allows you to customise the icon layout,


    I believe Google needs to update AA to allow native scaling to width. That's not as simple an update, probably.
    17th Nov 2018 5:01 pm
  • simonh
    Member Since: 02 Apr 2017
    Location: Shropshire
    Posts: 1002
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Sd4 (240) HSE Farallon Black

    Glad I have an iPhone. Too much hardware and OS segmentation on Android. Makes things like this hard to do.
    Velar HSE D240 - MY19
    Served by the excellent Shukers Land Rover of Ludlow - 10 Land Rover’s and 20 years of amazing customer service.
    17th Nov 2018 6:23 pm
  • DieselRanger
    Member Since: 12 Oct 2017
    Location: God's Country, Colorado
    Posts: 766
    United States 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Silicon Silver

    Android Auto is Google and its development is managed the same way as Apple - there's an SDK "owned" by Google and a specification for apps to be integrated. All the apps work brilliantly, as does Google Assistant.

    This is just a coding decision on the part of Google developers. Apple made that decision earlier, that's all - just like Android Auto made the choice to go wireless before Apple did.

    And Waze, which many people can't live without now, came out of Android's open approach vs. Apple's walled-garden approach, and it's free on Android. And all the other apps that I use on Android are free, save one.
    18th Nov 2018 5:11 pm
  • simonh
    Member Since: 02 Apr 2017
    Location: Shropshire
    Posts: 1002
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Sd4 (240) HSE Farallon Black

    Yes I know this. But what I say is still fact. Google licence the OS. Phone manufacturers build the hardware however they want and add their own flavour and support for their hardware. Makes developing new software using the latest OS features hard for all Android handsets.

    My work phone (SONY) is only 2 years old. It can’t be updated to the last 2 versions of Android becuase the manufacturer hasn’t blessed it. Even interim updates for what it’s running now weren’t available. Means it’s locked out of anything new added by Google to the core OS.

    My wife’s iPhone 6S is from 2015 and runs the current iOS and can take advantage of all the new OS offers.

    A walled garden of hardware and OS from the same manufacturer can be beneficial to users Wink

    https://bgr.com/2018/11/01/android-pie-vs-...still-bad/
    Velar HSE D240 - MY19
    Served by the excellent Shukers Land Rover of Ludlow - 10 Land Rover’s and 20 years of amazing customer service.
    18th Nov 2018 8:47 pm
  • DieselRanger
    Member Since: 12 Oct 2017
    Location: God's Country, Colorado
    Posts: 766
    United States 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Silicon Silver

    To each his own I suppose.
    18th Nov 2018 11:07 pm
  • simonh
    Member Since: 02 Apr 2017
    Location: Shropshire
    Posts: 1002
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Sd4 (240) HSE Farallon Black

    Thumbs Up
    Velar HSE D240 - MY19
    Served by the excellent Shukers Land Rover of Ludlow - 10 Land Rover’s and 20 years of amazing customer service.
    19th Nov 2018 8:08 am
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