The home screen your car never had
An unofficial home screen for the BYD Sealion 7 that replaces the stock launcher — and takes the instrument cluster with it. It shows you what the car already knows, in the places the car never showed you.
What it does
Everything below is photographed on a real car. Only what works gets a picture.
Regions — navigation and the speed-camera warnings run on Korean data (Kakao Mobility, public camera data). Weather, media, the cluster and the vehicle controls work anywhere.
Latest release
This panel reads the release server directly. The moment a new build is published, everything below changes with it.
https://beetle-launcher.com/BeetleLauncher-1.48-4117dca-release.apk
Once installed, the launcher checks for new releases on its own and offers them to you. You won't need to come back here.
Putting it on the car
Four steps, once.
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Connect over wireless ADB
Turn on wireless ADB from the head unit's engineer menu, then connect from a computer on the same network.
adb connect <car-ip>:5555
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Remove AdbKick if you have it
It is built into the launcher now, and the two will fight each other.
adb uninstall com.beetle.adbkick
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Install it
adb install -r BeetleLauncher-1.48-4117dca-release.apk
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Grant one permission
Without it the launcher cannot switch wireless ADB back on for you after the next start.
adb shell pm grant com.beetle.launcher \ android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
Before you install
- This is unofficial. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to BYD in any way. “BYD”, “Sealion” and “DiLink” are the trademarks of their respective owners.
- It does not modify vehicle firmware. It replaces the home screen, and it drives the car through the same published SDK the factory app uses.
- Install at your own risk. No warranty of any kind is given. Do not operate it while driving.
- Built for the Sealion 7 on DiLink 5.0, Android 11. Other BYD models are untested.
Tell us what broke
Reports go to one shared sheet. Add a row and it gets read and fixed from there.
Row 1 is a worked example. Add yours on a new row below it.
Six things are enough
With these, the cause can usually be found without the car in front of us. Leave blank whatever you don't have.
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Which screen
Dashboard, cluster, navigation, vehicle controls, or settings.
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Parked or driving
Some faults only appear once the car is moving.
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What you did
The last action is enough — a button, a switch, a swipe.
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What happened
And what you expected instead. The gap between the two is the bug.
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Every time?
Once, always, or sometimes. This narrows the cause more than anything else here.
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Version, and a photo
The version is under Settings › About. One photo of the screen beats ten lines of description.