send geo-locations to your bmw car from any app that allows sharing locations
About this app
Many android apps allow to open a geolocation in another app like OSMAnd or Googlemaps. In most cases this is either done by clicking a 'share' or 'navigate to' action. Such action triggers a so call 'Intent' and Android will promt the user to select an app to be used to handle that. Unfortunally the original BMW Connected-app does not show up here. Here is where 'send2car' comes into play - is an app capable or receiving intents for the geo-url-sheme and translating this event into a connected-drive message to be send to your car. As Geo-intends besides the coordinates do not contain much detail when receiving such geo-url-intent send2car will do some reverse-geocoding to retrieve additional data and offer to send the result to a bmw car via the services provides by the BMW Connected-drive portal. The message being send to the car is equivalent to message that is sent from the Map that you can find in Connected-drive app or portal. Actually send2car does use the very same web-services that the connected-drive-portal web-app uses. When opening the message in your cars head-unit you can choose to navigate to the precise location that is encoded within the message. To use you need to configure your connected-drive accout in send2car and retrieve the associated VINs from connected-drive portal.
Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later, by Norbert Truchsess.
What's New in v0.9
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- 2. Quickfix after relauch of BMW Portal
- * adjust URL for keys
Version history
Mar 19, 2021 · 2.3 MB · Android API 16–28 · code 13
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- 2. Quickfix after relauch of BMW Portal
- * adjust URL for keys
SHA-256 af8e56221d2476ecfa1c467086c82c22274d8eb0f7ea827476392dbf2bc8f346
Mar 17, 2021 · 2.3 MB · Android API 16–28 · code 12
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Quickfix after relauch of BMW Portal
- * adjust BaseURL of API (can send locations and load VINs but not the API-keys yet)
SHA-256 bc7f6e2c3826378c9b2e1bc6569a4795cac20323036e6aa1388476a5fe06f534
May 29, 2021 · 2.3 MB · Android API 16–28 · code 11
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- minor functional update 0.7 (icon)
- * add custom icon
SHA-256 9f4da300ae672acea4a7c10b3a9380431ffa92224ebf50fc78ea2c6ab5f0b54b
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