The free, open-source car launcher for Android head units (FYT / UIS7862 and similar). Map, music and live car data on one calm screen: up to seven dashboards you arrange yourself, 55+ widgets, whole-design skins, an AI mechanic that explains warning lights, and your phone's calls and messages on the big screen. No ads, no trial, no account.
Download the latest release · Android 10+ · made for 1280×720 head units (ROCO K706 / FYT / QF), also works on upright screens and phones.
📖 Read the wiki for every feature, setup guides and what works with or without root.
Will it work on my unit? See Tested hardware. Root is not needed.
Dashwheel is free, with no ads. If it makes your drives nicer, a coffee on Ko-fi keeps it going.
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| Live car data from a Bluetooth OBD adapter and the head unit's CAN box | AI mechanic: fault codes explained in plain words |
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| Road trip: next turn, break reminder, eco score, fuel prices nearby | 60+ widget designs, one per tile |
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| Whole-design skins: Panorama, Cockpit, Racing, Orbit, Canvas and more | Your dashboards, live widget previews, templates |
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| Calls from the paired phone, answered from the screen | Upright screens get their own layout |
- Dashboards your way: free grid, drag to move and resize, templates, Canvas theme with the map behind the tiles
- Live car data: ELM327 Bluetooth OBD and the head unit's own car data (doors, fuel, tyres, reversing)
- AI mechanic (free Google Gemini key): fault codes explained and spoken, start-up briefing, car care and servicing reminders
- Navigation: free built-in 3D map with turn-by-turn guidance, or Google Maps / Waze next turn on any tile
- Phone link (Dashwheel Companion app): notifications, messages, calls, where's my car, drive log
- Your own alerts and reverse view instead of the head unit's pop-ups
- Hands-free: spoken alerts, steering-wheel buttons, volume that follows speed
- Share and automate: share a dashboard and its look as a QR code or a short code; Tasker and similar apps can drive Dashwheel and react to the car (automation)
- Second screen (experimental): a Raspberry Pi drives a second monitor in the car
- 9 languages, day and night themes, updates from GitHub Releases on a stable or a beta channel
- Root is optional: extra features appear only when the unit allows them (what needs what)
- GitHub edition (
Dashwheel-<version>.apkfrom Releases): the full app. Root, internal ADB and PMPatch3 features appear when the unit allows them, and it updates itself from GitHub Releases. - Google Play edition: the same app without the features that need root, the unit's internal ADB or PMPatch3. It never installs anything itself: updates come from Google Play, and the Companion comes from Play too. Store texts and the privacy policy are in
fastlane/metadata-play/anddocs/play/.
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| Dashboards, widgets, skins, OBD, map, AI mechanic, phone link | yes | yes |
| Self-update from GitHub, Ko-fi link | yes | no (Play updates it) |
| System-app install, boot logo, Google Maps inside a tile (PMPatch3), reverse camera takeover, firmware pop-up and volume bar replacement, CAN car data from the unit's MCU, Signal Finder | when the unit allows it | no |
| Accessibility service (split screen, typing from the phone, wheel buttons) | turned on by the app where there is a root shell | turned on by you in Android's settings, after an in-app explanation |
- Install
Dashwheel-<version>.apkon the head unit and set it as the Home app. - Optional:
dashwheel-companion.apkon your phone, an ELM327 Bluetooth adapter, a free Gemini key. - Follow the first-run setup and the tour.
Updates: Dashwheel updates itself from the stable channel. Turn on Settings, About, Beta updates to get each new version as soon as it is built; a beta becomes stable once it has been tried.
Details: Installation and updates · Troubleshooting
The Dashwheel Companion app is Android only, so an iPhone gets no notifications, messages, drive log, phone GPS or "where's my car" on the head unit. Everything else works without it:
- dashboards, widgets and skins, the built-in map and turn-by-turn guidance
- live car data from an OBD adapter and the head unit's CAN box, the AI mechanic, servicing reminders
- calls through the head unit's own Bluetooth (on ROCO K706 / QF units), and its radio and Bluetooth music
- CarPlay, where the head unit has it, next to Dashwheel
- Something broken, or a unit that isn't listed? In the app, Settings, About, Report how it works fills in a GitHub issue with your unit's model and firmware (a QR code for your phone). Or open an issue yourself.
- After a crash, Dashwheel offers to send the error the next time it starts, once the car is parked.
- If Dashwheel is useful to you, a ⭐ on this repo helps other drivers find it.
- Ko-fi pays for test hardware.
Installers and resellers: custom or branded builds, and licences for closed distribution, are available. Get in touch.
Android Studio with a Gradle JDK of 17–21, then ./gradlew assembleDebug. Toolchain, modules, CI and release signing: Building from source. Pull requests are welcome: see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Copyright (C) 2026 Alexandre Leblanc (deviloufr-ai)
Dashwheel (the launcher and the Companion app) is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. It is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; see the LICENSE file for the full text.
The Dashwheel name and logo are not covered by the GPL: forks must use a different name and logo.