re: I am bedeviled by Android Auto...

I use android auto and apple CarPlay (primary). I prefer CarPlay which is hard to say as I typically prefer android products. I don’t find Android auto is glitchy for me. I did have serious problems with CarPlay for a while but it turned out it was the phone and not the truck radio. If possible, try another phone.

The problem for me with android auto is that I want icons/buttons to push. They want it to be voice activated but that doesn’t work well when you have kids in the car constantly making noise. CarPlay gives me to option to choose Waze, set my destination then switch to pocketcast and back to waze pretty easily. Android auto feels more clunky to me.

The main thing I dislike about CarPlay is that the phone display and CarPlay display are tied together so I can’t have one app visible on the phone while something else is visible on CarPlay. Android auto does allow that and it’s nice.