scoopman

No way to change the colors, but you can force day or night mode in the developer settings if you find one of them better than the other.

You might find that Waze has "thicker" roads and more contrast -- but it isn't as good in navigating you to new places.

Wires

Ok, just wondering. Last night I brought up AA on my phone, and it looked great. When I zoom out, traffic lines stay thick so you can see the phone city traffic. Not sure why everything turns hairline on the MMI. Need to play more.....

scoopman

It's a DPI question with the Audi MMI screen. I would set the resolution to 720p BTW -- there are no gains to be had on the MMI screen in 1080 on our cars, and it just makes your phone work harder.

I find Waze is generally much better to see traffic conditions (and to get alerts) -- it's really what the app is optimized for. I have Waze navigate my commute, but I have navigation voice turn instructions turned off and have it tell me alerts only. Works great.

I only use Google Maps when I need to find / go to somewhere new, or I've looked something up on my computer and want to go there in my car.

Wires

Can you see Waze on the MMI, or is it just on the phone?

scoopman

On the MMI! Just download and install Waze on your phone, set it up initially on the phone screen, then you will be able to change mapping apps in the same way you can change music apps (with the little "^" next to the icon)

Wires

Thanks for that! The ticket is you need to initiate a navigation on your phone. Once you do that, you get that little ^, and you can toggle between them. Really slick!

scoopman

Again once you set up Waze initially on your phone with signing in and the like, the carrot will be there when you move the focus circle over the map icon at the bottom left.

You do not need to start nav in Waze before plugging in.

Wires

Might have typed that wrong. I had logged into Waze, but nothing showed on the MMI (no carrot). Then I opened Waze and had it try to navigate somewhere, plugged it into the MMI, and I got prompted about allowing info from the phone. At that point the carrot appeared.

I never created a Waze account, so I don't know if it was the action of doing a navigation on Waze that completed the integration with Android Auto. Regardless, it works now, and I'll check it out!

audi-one

You don't necessarily need to log into an account in Waze to get it to work on the phone. But if you want your imaginary internet points, you might =)

I think the point is once it's up and running on the phone, regardless of if it's associated with a specific account, it will work on the MMI.

Wires

Might have been half setup then. Regardless, works now, which is nice.