Android Auto is the most popular interface that exists for the car. Now, for some time now it is no longer necessary to download it separately, but rather that interface is set automatically when our car is detected. It’s more; Thanks to the important improvements and advances, this also makes it possible for us to know and discover the performance and behavior of our vehicle, and that perhaps you did not know.
We will be able to verify everything that happens in the car
Surely you knew about Android Auto, the application to use in the car and that allows us to integrate the essential functions of a smartphone in the vehicle’s information and entertainment system. You can call, send and receive messages, use Google Maps, listen to your favorite music…
However, the application also offers many other possibilities, such as seeing the performance of your car . Or what is the same; From the tool it will be much easier for us to check everything that is happening with the vehicle in an extremely intelligent way.
And all you need is the Android Auto app. We are talking about Performance Monitor , which is an app that helps you check everything that happens with your vehicle, showing you information about the level of oil, gasoline, battery or speedometer, among others, just by glancing at the screen and to creating apps for Android Auto.
It’s Performance Monitor, from Android Auto
As such, it is an application that works primarily in Volkswagen Group cars. With this, what we see is that, although Android Auto is, Performance Monitor is not an application certified by Google, which means that it cannot be found in the Play Store. Although it is possible to install it, and activate it, from tools such as AAStore and AAD : both include Performance Monitor among their installation options.
One of the requirements of Performance Monitor is that the vehicle offers synchronization with the phone taking advantage of the communication tools. Therefore, and beyond its free installation, Performance Monitor is valid above all for some Volkswagen, Seat, Audi or Skoda cars; and as long as they include Android Auto as an operating system for vehicles, obviously.
This application allows us to see on the screen of our vehicle, data about everything that happens in the engine , seeing information about this and other components. With everything, we will be able to discover real-time data such as measuring its consumption, battery, speedometer, mileage, etc. Specifically, these are the data that the app can display:
- Absolute and relative turbo charge.
- Battery voltage.
- Coolant and oil temperature.
- Gearbox and external oil temperature.
- Speed.
- RPM.
- Lateral and longitudinal G’s.
- Yaw rate.
- Wheel angle.
- throttle position.
- Brake pressure.
- Power and hybrid power.
- Torque.
- Eco score and average.
- Current consumption of primary and secondary fuel.
- First and second cycle fuel consumption.
- Tank level (primary and secondary).
- Altitude.
- Compass.
- Tire pressure and temperature.
It will notify us and notify us of any situation
As we said, the only thing you need to put it into practice is a little patience and an APK that goes by the name of Performance Monitor, a tool that, in addition to having a very intuitive interface , has the ability to notify you of any type of problem and show you endless data of all kinds, as we have seen.
It is in this interface where we can see how this application shows us three clocks of information at all times, in addition to four smaller boxes in which we can configure ourselves to our liking where to place extras that interest us. If everything is correct, you will have real-time information with everything you need to know about the car’s operation. Fully customizable , from our mobile we can choose what information will be displayed in each of these elements.
