The car’s app tray isn’t your phone’s.
Tesla supplies the in-car software and app selection. Owning an Android app doesn’t put it in that tray. Which features appear also depends on the vehicle and its hardware.
Tesla touchscreen documentation ↗04 / WHY I BUILT MY EDITION
“Someone shares their screen.
I’m squinting at mine.”
Sometimes I need to join a Zoom meeting from my phone while I’m in the car. The conversation is fine—until someone shares a presentation, a document, or the details we need to discuss. Then I’m trying to follow it on a tiny phone screen.
There’s a much larger display right in front of me, but my 2019 Model 3 didn’t have the native Zoom app. I wanted to use that display for the phone apps I already had, including shared meeting content while parked.
I explored other mirroring apps. I didn’t want ads in the experience or another mirroring subscription, and I wanted control over the issues that affected my own setup.
So I built my personal solution on the open-source Castla foundation, using AI coding tools to adapt it to my Pixel 8a. I worked through connection problems, touch and scrolling, and latency, then tested it in my Model 3 and Model Y.
Built on Castla by Suprhimp ↗