Running the Demo App

Dev Board

Coming soon! Information for deploying to imx8 dev board should be added here.

Android Studio Emulator

WARNING - Android Studio and the Android Emulator seem to be pretty resource-hungry, especially with RAM. It is recommended that you stop any other virtualization-related things on your machine (virtual machines and docker containers) before attempting to run the app locally on the emulator.

1. Install Android Studio
   • Instructions vary depending on operating system. You can figure this out on your own.
2. Install Android Automotive System Image
   • Docs are here
   • “Android Automotive with Google APIs x86_64 System Image” (API level 34-ext9) is known to work
3. Clone the demo-app repository locally
4. Open the demo-app directory in Android Studio
5. Set up Android Automotive Virtual Device
   • Docs are here
   • “Automotive (1408p landscape)” is known to work
6. Click the “run app” button in the top bar (also can be triggered with Shift + F10)
7. Use the little kebab button in the emulator to open “Extended Controls”
8. Trigger different inputs to the app using the extended controls
   • Car data > Car sensor data gives you access to some high-level data inputs
   • Car data > Vhal properties gives you even more access to data inputs - you can search for things like EV_BATTERY_LEVEL
   • Car rotary gives you a handy rotary knob system as an alternative to the touchscreen

TODO: figure out how much of this can be done through the CLI instead of using Android Studio.