PlayThing
Android 9 on the Spotify Car Thing as a wired Apple CarPlay receiver, with DiPlay (beta)
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GITHUB · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 71%)
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- Hardware & robotics
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- Hobby / open-source project
Similar launches
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No Running Android on the Car Thing hardware and presenting it as a wired CarPlay receiver needs low-level porting, USB protocol work, and Apple's authentication, all of which are specialized and hardware-dependent.
What it would actually take: The build requires porting or booting Android 9 on the Car Thing's SoC with a custom kernel and device trees, then implementing the iAP2 and CarPlay USB handshake, including the MFi authentication chip path that Apple restricts. It also needs physical hardware and a head unit or test rig to validate against.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #491 of 629 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 343 days after the earliest competitor.
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- External ID
- 1423613606
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- Product
- PlayThing
- Website domain
- github.com
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- Upvotes percentile
- 0.29
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- AI summary
- apple carplay receiver software for spotify car thing
- Manually corrected
- No