AutoMate - Car Dashboard

BitSpice

In-app purchases

About this app

AutoMate makes common services available to while you're driving. With AutoMate, you get the right information at the right time, so you can focus on the road.

Basic features
• Maps – Search for directions and launch your favorite navigation app for turn-by-turn directions.
• Places – Search for nearby places such as gas stations and restaurants, with one click.
• Phone – Call your favorite contacts, see call log, and easily dial a number
• Messaging – Send and reply to SMS messages, hands free replying available for many popular messaging apps
• Voice – Take control of the app through voice commands for navigation, music, and more
• Contextual Information - Receive weather updates, see recent searches, receive speed limit alerts, and more
• Media Control – Control many popular media apps using buttons or gestures
• Shortcuts – Keep your favorite apps and Android shortcuts at your fingertips. Includes quick settings toggles.
• Data – View real-time engine data from an OBDII adapter with Torque integration.

Premium Features
• Set AutoMate as a launcher while it is running
• Hands free gestures! Wave your hand over the device to perform different actions
• Traffic camera alerts, never get a red light or speed camera ticket again!
• Customize wallpapers for day and night themes
• Startup options to make AutoMate even more effortless to use

Links
• About: http://www.bitspice.net/automate/
• FAQ: https://support.bitspice.net/portal/kb/automate
• Join the beta: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.bitspice.automate

Permissions:
• This app uses the Device Administrator permission. It is used to automatically lock the screen, if that option is enabled. Otherwise, we do not request this permission.
• This app uses Accessibility services. We request this permission on devices older than Android 4.4 to mirror certain notifications on AutoMate's home screen.
• Other permissions used explained in more detail here: https://support.bitspice.net/portal/kb/articles/automate-permissions-explained

Ratings and reviews

Great app which almost emulates the Android auto experience without changing out your head unit. 2022 UPDATE: Since Android Auto (phone edition) has been abandoned by google, I'm giving AutoMate another try. Gotta lower it 2 stars tho. Many functions simply dont work and I still dont get why phone calls wont come thru while the app is running? Whats the point? App somewhat works but is so fragmented. Unfortunate that the devs seem to have stopped working on it :(

Would love to love this app, but it fails at the one thing I want to keep from Android Auto, the use of Google maps. It says it should let me do that in the options, but it still defaults to the Automate maps, and when I click Google maps, it bring me to the default Google maps, not the car version like Android Auto. I wish there was a way to fix this, otherwise just gonna have to stick with Android Auto.

So far this is the best non-Android Auto launcher i've found. I am disappointed because I bought this app and it won't let me restore my purchases. When I click restore purchases it gives a error and when I try to buy them again it says I own them :-( ... Also, biggest issue from a programmatic standpoint is that when you update any options in the settings, they don't take effect until a relaunch of the app. I believe this app is very promising, please try to address the bugs, thanks!

What's new

Android 11 startup crash fix