CarPlay & Android Auto with .NET MAUI | Community Feed

Your .NET MAUI app can project a purpose-built interface onto a vehicle’s infotainment screen — same solution, same shared services, same DI container. This post walks through the full implementation for both CarPlay and Android Auto, using two real apps as examples: a GPS trip recorder with live map drawing, and a speech-driven game.

What you’ll learn

How CarPlay scene delegates work: entitlements, Info.plist scene manifests, and the CPInterfaceController lifecycle
How to access MAUI’s DI container from CarPlay code via IPlatformApplication.Current!.Services
CarPlay template types in practice: CPInformationTemplate for data display, CPGridTemplate for actions, and MKMapView for live maps
Android Auto setup: CarAppService, Session, Screen, and the Invalidate() re-render pattern
How to share ViewModels between the phone UI and the car UI using scoped DI and PropertyChanged subscriptions
Testing with the iOS Simulator CarPlay window and the Android Desktop Head Unit emulator