Car Penguin

Enhance your driving experience with Car Penguin, the ultimate Android head unit launcher designed to streamline your journey. By setting Car Penguin as your default launcher, you gain quick access to essential driving tools such as maps and navigation, media players, phone calls, and contacts, ensuring everything you need is right at your fingertips. With support for multiple languages, themes, and bidirectional layouts, Car Penguin caters to a diverse range of drivers and preferences.

Feature Summary

Customized Dashboard

The dashboard of Car Penguin is crafted for speed and efficiency, allowing you to customize the layout and content to suit your driving needs. Quick access to vital functions is at the core of this design, ensuring a seamless driving experience.

Important: Each page within the application features its own options menu. To access these options, simply tap the menu icon (often represented by a hamburger icon) while on any page.

Maps, Search for Places, Points of Interests, and Turn-by-Turn Navigation

Car Penguin integrates seamlessly with Google Maps, providing real-time location tracking, current addresses, and traffic updates. You can customize the map's appearance with various themes and layouts. Easily search for places, save them to lists for future reference, and utilize Google APIs for precise, turn-by-turn navigation. Additionally, the app offers statistical insights and logs of all your trips, enhancing your navigation capabilities.

Playing Music and Watching Videos

Enjoy your favorite tunes and videos on the go with Car Penguin's built-in media player. It supports local audio and video playback, complete with media controls, album lists, and dedicated shortcuts for other apps. You can also integrate other popular media services as external widgets on the dashboard or within the toggle bar for easy access.

Smartphone Integration

Car Penguin enhances your connectivity by displaying your contacts and favorites, allowing you to dial numbers directly using the system's default dialer or seamlessly transfer calls to your smartphone via Bluetooth. For full integration, including syncing call logs and SMS, you'll need to install the Car Penguin Server app (available for free at http://carpenguin.com) on your mobile device.

Additional Features

• Car Graphics/Photos and Device Information
• Real-time Weather Updates
• App Browsing and Shortcut Management
• Interactive Screen Saver
• Sound Recording Capabilities
• Integrated Speedometer
• Calendar Viewing
• Automatic Volume Adjustment Based on Speed
• Notification and Speed Warning Alerts

With Car Penguin, your driving experience is not just about reaching your destination but enjoying the journey with all the tools you need, smartly integrated into your car's Android system.