Is there a way to seek forwards/backwards in Android Auto?

[oenone575]

I recently took ownership of a car with Android Auto, and I've been using GoneMAD as my car's Podcast player. It's doing an excellent job and I was more than happy to purchase the full version of the app. However there's one feature I've been unable to figure out, and so I'm hoping maybe someone can help.

In my previous (non-Android Auto) car, I could hold the previous/next track buttons down on the steering wheel, and this would go into rewind/fast-forward mode so that I could easily replay a section of audio or skip past a bit I didn't want to hear. If I do the same thing with GoneMAD, holding the button causes it to continuously skip through the previous or next tracks until I release the button.

Is there any way to get these buttons to seek instead of skip tracks when I hold them down?

Thanks very much!

[GoneMAD]

not that im aware of. android auto is google's UI that they control. button presses on android auto get translated to actions that are sent to whatever the active music player is

[oenone575]

That's a shame, I guess you're pretty much limited to what Google wants you to do in that case.

I wonder if there might be a possibility of adding an option to GoneMAD such that when a track skip button press is received, it waits for a period of time before executing it. If further track skip requests are then received within that time, it would then ignore the track skip and instead initiate a seek forward/backward until the track skip button presses stop being sent? That could work around the lack of flexibility.

Failing that, is there any way that you could add buttons to the on-screen UI to allow skip forward/back 30 seconds? That would be better than nothing.

[MotleyGord]

Sept 18, 2024 1:40:56 GMT -5 oenone575 said:

Failing that, is there any way that you could add buttons to the on-screen UI to allow skip forward/back 30 seconds? That would be better than nothing.

Android Auto is very limited in design for simplicity. There are very few options to be allowed. This is intentional to minimize touches and keep eyes on the road. I don't expect this will change.

[GoneMAD]

better android auto integration is planned for 3.6... so expect that in like 2 years lol (3.5 has been in the works for like 1.5 years now.. i dont get much dev time)