MAXDrive is a React + Capacitor dashboard for Android head units. The app is built around an in-car launcher layout with media status, app shortcuts, vehicle telemetry hooks, and an Android-specific update flow.
MAXDrive is a React + Capacitor dashboard for Android head units. The app is built around an in-car launcher layout with media status, app shortcuts, vehicle telemetry hooks, and an Android-specific update flow.
I’ve been shifting the app away from just “it works” toward something I’d actually want to use in the car every day. The biggest chunks of work landed in the settings screen, update flow, and the Android bridge — I added a GPS test panel so I can actually verify signal without digging through logs, rewrote how APK updates get downloaded and installed so it doesn’t feel janky, and cleaned up the bridge code for unknown-source installs and media session handling.
The rest is mostly UI polish — tightening spacing, fixing up the styling across screens, making things feel more finished. Nothing flashy, just the kind of stuff that makes it feel like a real app rather than a prototype. Still a lot to do but it’s getting there.
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I just got a Junsun android head unit for my car but all the factory themes sucked, so I thought why not making one (specifically for my car). The idea was to add a 3d model of the car in the middle and read out the speed and rev infos from mcu (and canbus), but unfortunately Junsun does not give access to these. I just tested it, I does run really good on my mac, but the head unit has only 2gb of ram so most of the animations lagged out like crazy. So this is the current state, but now I’ll change it to make it more ram efficient, and still look smooth on my car.
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