xcertplay
Carplay on Android head unit using onboard mfi chip or via CH341.
Details
- External ID
- 1366915122
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- xcertplay
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 228
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.970535485523956
- Tags
- carplay, headunit
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- apple carplay support for android head units
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This requires reverse-engineering Apple CarPlay proprietary protocol handshakes, direct hardware serial communication (CH341 USB-to-UART/I2C), and low-level Apple MFi authentication chip interactions.
What it would actually take: A developer needs an Android NDK/C++ environment communicating over USB host APIs to interface with a CH341 chip or native I2C bus to poll the Apple MFi coprocessor (CP3.0). It requires implementing the proprietary CarPlay iAP2 authentication session, handling H.264 video decoding pipelines, and synchronizing audio over low-latency USB audio classes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 223 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 224 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- DiPlay · github · 2026-09-24 · 300 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- MHI2Q-CarPlay-RGI-MMI-Mirror · github · 2026-09-10 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- wetype-ime-linux · github · 2026-09-23 · 227 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ch341-to-mfi-chip · github · 2026-09-13 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- mhi2_altscreen_carplay · github · 2026-09-26 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- dsh-preset-mobile-use · github · 2026-09-17 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- aceHub · github · 2026-09-30 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- AEmulator · github · 2026-09-24 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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