Car dock app

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Lifer
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Need recommendation on a car dock app. Requirements: landscape orientation, big buttons with phone/navigation/music as common apps, time/weather info preferrable. My previous phone (HTC) had a great car dock app. I now have the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Great phone, but no native car dock app. Samsung doesn't even make a car dock for this phone.

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I finally found a dock that I liked. I got it through a Australian site. It is Chinese built, excellent quality, incredible suction cup and it has wireless charging. But I need a car dock app to make this all come together. It needs to make sure that gps is on, connect to Bluetooth and turn off WiFi, all automatically. The apps I've seen are not that visually appealing. I wish there was something like XBMC for the ability to skin the app in something cool.

Any suggestions?
 

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Lifer
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With all the techies on here no one uses an android car dock app that they could recommend? C'mon!
 

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Zaap

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I used to use Car Dock Home v3: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cwfk.ig88.carhome3

I liked it because it's fairly customizable, and I like that it can use widgets and quick-launch icons to the apps I needed in the car quickly.

Haven't used it in a while, but I recommend trying it.
And yes, I 2nd using tasker for all the automated stuff.

I just no longer use my phone as a navigator in the car since I bought a car with touchscreen and Sync.
 

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