.NET MAUI Android Auto : Launching Navigation Apps from your app
This content has 1 year. Some of the information in this post may be out of date or no longer work. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Android Auto is a popular platform that allows users to seamlessly integrate their Android devices with their car’s infotainment system. This integration extends to navigation, allowing users to launch navigation apps like Google Maps or Waze directly from Android Auto. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to achieve this functionality from within your Android application using .NET MAUI. The key to launching navigation apps on Android Auto is to construct a URI with the desired latitude and longitude and use an Intent to open the navigation app. Let’s break down the code snippet you provided to understand how it works: AndroidUri is the Android.Net.Uri class alias achieved by: Let’s dissect this code step by step:
.NET MAUI Android Auto: Async loading of lists
This content has 1 year. Some of the information in this post may be out of date or no longer work. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Android Auto has become an integral part of the modern driving experience, allowing users to access important information and features without taking their eyes off the road. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to implement asynchronous loading of lists in Android Auto to ensure a smooth and responsive user experience. If you are new how to implement Android Auto in your .NET MAUI Application, then scroll to the very end of this post, and you will find a detailed tutorial video by Christian Strydom how to do it. Implementation Let’s assume that we have a class with a list of SomeObject named _allItems. This list contains the data we want to display in an Android Auto list. If you dont have this private field of List<SomeObject> in your Android Auto Screen class, then define it like this: ‘private List<SomeObject> _allItems;’ We’ll use the OnGetTemplate method to check whether _allItems has data. If it doesn’t, we’ll start an asynchronous task to load the data and show a loading indicator. If it does, we’ll build the list with the existing data. OnGetTemplate modify In the OnGetTemplate method, we’ll first create a ListTemplateBuilder and check if _allItems has data: Implement the Async Task Now, let’s create an asynchronous task, LoadDataAsyncTask, which will invoke a method asynchronously to fetch and set the value…
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