CarPlay / Android Auto support

[angeloreale]

Context
I have a radio app running in Expo ecosystem, and I don't want to leave Expo ecosystem to have my radio app playable in vehicles.

I'm starting to gather requirements to write an RFC / implementation for adding support for CarPlay / Android Auto interfaces into Expo.

Progress
[#-------------------] 5%

So far, I could find that there is at least a crucial feature missing in Expo which seems to be a way to leverage custom AppScenes / UIApplicationDelegate interfaces.

2023-09-10: I'm trying to understand whether Expo makes any usage of Scenes and whether it'd require tweaking of enablement. [Ref 1]

Also, as a natural follow up, at least for my use case, would be to have the library React Native Track Player being able to reproduce on a/any car sound system, but I do see that there is some current progress in there too. [Ref 2]

Ref 1: birkir/react-native-carplay#101
Ref 2: doublesymmetry/react-native-track-player#2094

[tsapeta]

Hey @angeloreale 👋
We currently don't use scenes anywhere, but we're open for an RFC and adding support for them. Also @knowbody might be interested in helping on this!

[forki]

@EvanBacon I remember you wrote on twitter that react-native-carplay should work!?

[betocolon23]

Hi, any updates on expo and carplay/android auto integration? I have a fully developed app on expo and want to do some things with car play :(

[philipkaare]

Any updates?