AutoSpace

AutoSpace — an Android Auto alternative for the phone: frosted Material UI, Vela navigation, no-AI browser, on-device Kokoro voice, Groq AI assistant, and custom resolutions. A fork of Gearslip.

Features Car interface. Frost, Flat, Tactile, Edge, and Pitlane control styles, with color schemes Neutral, Material You, Night, Pitlane, Circuit, and Heritage, an independent Light / Dark / System appearance mode, and Regular / Pitch dark surfaces (Pitch is pure black). A flat alphabetical launcher with a pinned row, drag-to-reorder, and sliders for icon, tile, and overall size. Quick brightness is two taps away, from the nav bar or the dashboard, and dims the whole car screen. Phone calls. Dial from a keypad, or search your contacts, then confirm before the call goes out. When a call comes in, answer or decline it on the car screen. An optional call-speaker toggle (off by default) tries the phone's speaker for calls; the car's Bluetooth route may still win, because call routing belongs to the system dialer. Navigation. AutoSpace hosts real Car App Library map apps on the car screen. Vela Maps is the default navigation app, with rough edges. Music. Browse, play, and queue tracks from a car-enabled media app, with a Now Playing view, an Up Next queue, and lyrics. Type a search, and apps that accept one play the best match. Car skip buttons seek within the video player and skip tracks outside it. The web. A browser with a floating frost bar, tabs, saved pages and history, a strict popup blocker, text zoom, find-in-page, and an open-on-phone handoff. The default search is no-AI DuckDuckGo (noai.duckduckgo.com). A media finder lists playable media the page exposes (direct files, HLS, DASH) and opens it in AutoSpace's own Media3 player. Browser pages are never themed: no force-dark, no algorithmic darkening. Pages render as authored. Video player. Speed, sleep timer, audio tracks, subtitles (with a style picker in car Settings), quality choices, pinch zoom and pan, and a stall watchdog. While driving, video shows its picture only after you confirm you are a passenger; otherwise you hear the audio. Passenger gates. Entering the browser or the video player while the car is moving asks "Are you driving?" "I'm a passenger" opens it normally; "Yes" closes the browser or drops video to audio-only. The allowance lasts for that browser/player session. This is an honesty gate: the app cannot verify who tapped. Screen sharing. Fit is the default, Fill is one tap away, and there is never a stretch mode. Pinch zooms 1x–3x, drag pans while zoomed, and a player-style chrome row (glyph buttons, no labels) auto-hides. Exits never trap you: the car's Back button, the on-screen exit button, or the phone's Stop. Touch relay is single-finger while mirroring. Mirrored Maps (also present, not the default). A "Maps (mirrored)" tile mirrors stock Google Maps from the phone to the car, with touch. It appears only when Maps is installed. This is mirroring, not a native car app: Google Maps only accepts Google's own Android Auto as its car host, so native Maps support is not proven. No patched or re-signed copy of Maps is used. Resolutions. Per-vehicle resolution (Auto / 720p / 1080p / 2K / 4K), resolved only against configurations the head unit actually offers — nearest offered size at or below, never an invented one. 2K/4K are wired-first; on encoder failure or a black screen it falls back to 1080p. Voice, spoken. AutoSpace speaks with Kokoro-82M (Hexgrad, Apache 2.0), entirely on the phone, for assistant replies, read-aloud messages, and spoken directions — the same voice for all three. All 53 Kokoro voices are offered, with American Adam (am_adam) the default, and Piper (MIT) as fallback. No voice ships in the APK: Kokoro (~350 MB) and Piper (~68 MB) download once from Settings, with resume and exact-size validation. If neither is downloaded, replies stay silent rather than borrowing the phone's voice. Voice, listening. Speech turns into text on the phone, and nothing you say leaves it. Live words come from Kroko; final words from Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 by default (Canary stays available). A "Hey AutoSpace" / "Hey Gearslip" hotword (off by default) listens during a car session, with an option to listen on the phone microphone. Voice commands. Local commands run on keyword matching (plus your own custom voice keywords): navigate, play music, open apps, read and reply to messages, change brightness and volume, stop navigation, ETA and distance, repeat the last direction, "say that again" for the last reply, and more, including guarded synonym matching. Two honest limits, stated in the replies themselves: ending an active call needs the dialer, and a new message can only be sent by replying to a thread that already exists. Emergency calls always ask for a spoken confirmation first. AI assistant (opt-in, bring your own key). When local commands cannot answer, an AI assistant can: Groq is the default provider (openai/gpt-oss-20b), Gemini stays as an experimental provider. Answers are short, grounded in web search when the question needs it, and shown with a small AI badge plus a provider glyph (globe for Groq, Google G for Gemini) — never a spoken "From AI:" prefix. Actions the AI suggests (navigate, open an app, search, call, reply, media, volume, brightness, toggles, timers, readouts) are confirmed with you before they run, and emergency calls never go through the AI. The key is stored on the phone in the Android Keystore and never leaves it except to the provider you chose.

License

AGPL-3.0