Sealion 7

Picks the theme. The dashboard, dock and cluster all switch to that theme's look. Looks such as accent colour, font, brightness, wallpaper and dock style, and where the tiles sit, are saved per theme, so switching away and back keeps them.

Pick one or more built-in themes you do not use and remove them from the list. Beetle and custom themes are not offered. A deleted theme cannot be brought back; if you delete the one in use, the launcher switches to Beetle.

Turns on enemy mechs inside the Mobile Suit cluster that close in as your speed rises. This row only appears while the cluster uses the Mobile Suit design, and it starts off.

Shows or hides the info panel in the middle of the My car tile — how far you can go, money saved, your time together, and a one-line note. Tap the panel to move to the next one. Turn it off and the gear and car picture go back to their old places. Applies to every theme.

Sets the interior ambient lighting to the car colour closest to the current theme's signature colour, and follows when you change theme. Turning it off restores the colour and on/off state from before.

Picks light or dark text automatically, to suit the background.

Returns the current theme to how it shipped. Only what you changed in this theme is lost; other themes are untouched.

Dark or light screens.

OptionsDarkBright

The accent colour for buttons and type. The wallpaper stays; only this colour changes.

The typeface for the whole launcher. It changes as soon as you pick one.

How the tiles are drawn.

Whether to show the clock and date at the top of the first page.

Whether times are shown on a 24-hour or 12-hour clock.

Options24-hour12-hour

Background picture for landscape. Only the Beetle and Sunshine themes have this row; other themes use their own background.

Background picture for portrait. “Same as landscape” uses the landscape choice. Only the Beetle and Sunshine themes have this row.

Hides the Android status bar and uses the whole screen.

How quickly the gauge needles follow the value.

How the speed itself is shown.

OptionsDigitalAnalog

Speed measured by satellite. It differs from the car's own speed by a few km/h.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Motor revolutions.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Whether motor torque is shown in N·m, kgf·m or lb·ft.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Motor temperature.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Whether the dashboard speed tile shows a regenerative-braking dial.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Sets how high the gauges sit inside the speed tile.

Size of the gauge inside the dashboard gauge tile.

Whether tyre pressure is shown in bar, psi or kPa.

OptionsbarpsikPa

Whether speed is shown in km/h or mph.

Optionskm/hmph

When a car or a person appears in one of the Cockpit cameras windows, it is marked with a red box and “ALERT”. FRONT, REAR, LEFT and RIGHT below choose which directions to watch; only windows shown on the tile are checked. Live view under Settings › Cluster · Camera › Camera must be on.

Whether this camera window shows the raw fisheye picture or one with the lens curve straightened out.

OptionsOriginalStraightenedSmooth

Mirrors this camera window left to right. The pan value is flipped along with it, so the window keeps looking the same way.

How strongly the lens curve is straightened in this camera window.

How wide a view this camera window takes in. Wider shows more, but smaller.

How tall a view this camera window takes in.

Turns where this camera window looks, left or right.

Tilts where this camera window looks, up or down.

For each dock row — climate, control, media and car functions — choose whether it sits in the bottom dock or in a separate dock at the top of the screen.

OptionsBottomTop

Whether the dock carries a row of vehicle-function buttons. “Edit items” picks which ones.

Default — the usual look. Glass — a see-through glass panel.

OptionsDefaultGlass

Rounded or square dock corners.

OptionsRoundedSquare

How tall the dock is.

OptionsSmallNormalLarge

Dock colour. “Default” is the usual colour. Only shown in the Beetle theme, and saved per theme.

Adds a “Float” button to the dock. Tap it and the launcher steps back, leaving a small button on screen; tap that to bring the launcher back. It needs permission to draw over other apps, which is granted over wireless ADB when you turn it on.

Size of the floating button.

How solid the floating button looks. Lower is more see-through.

Moves the floating button back to its default place.

Whether app icons sit in the dock.

Whether names appear under the icons.

Which app the music controls talk to.

“Edit apps” picks what goes in the dock.

What the cluster shows. Off — stock, the launcher leaves it alone. Stock + camera — the turn-signal camera in the stock cluster's right pane. Beetle — the launcher's cluster. Beetle + nav — Beetle gauges with a small TMAP window. Nav — TMAP full screen.

Shows the track name on the cluster for 5 seconds when the song changes.

Where the wallpaper comes from.

OptionsSolidStock backgroundMode color

The colour used when the background is set to a flat colour.

Darkens the background photo so the numbers on top of it stay readable.

Options0%20%40%60%80%

Sends the track playing in the media centre to the stock cluster’s media panel. Works even when the launcher’s cluster is not in use.

A horse runs along the bottom-left of the cluster with your speed. Its colour follows the drive mode.

How high the horse runs. Too low and it hides behind the stock strip; too high and it crosses the gauges.

How items move on the layout pad: Free follows your finger; Grid snaps them to a grid.

OptionsFreeGrid

Resizes the item selected on the pad with a slider, from 50% to 200%. It stops before the item would leave the cluster screen.

“Reset position” puts just the selected item back to its original place and size.

Clears the dragged gauge positions and per-gauge sizes and goes back to the “In a row” layout.

How the speed itself is shown.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Speed measured by satellite. It differs from the car's own speed by a few km/h.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Motor revolutions.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Motor torque.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Motor temperature.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Whether the cluster shows regenerative braking.

OptionsHiddenDigitalAnalog

Colour of the cluster's seven-segment digits. “Mode” follows the drive-mode colour.

Colour of the glow around those digits. “Off” draws no glow.

How far that glow spreads. Hidden while glow is off.

In a row — gauges side by side. Free — drag each gauge where you want it; switching to Free starts from the current layout.

OptionsOne rowFree

Moves the cluster gauge board up or down.

Picks the look of the cluster dials: Original, Design 1 or Design 2. The background stays as it is.

OptionsClassicDesign 1Design 2

Size of the gauges on the cluster.

How gauges move on the Gauge positions pad: Free follows your finger; Grid snaps them to a grid.

OptionsFreeGrid

Shows the side camera on the cluster when you signal. It cannot be switched on while the cluster is set to Off, or while the Mobile Suit theme’s cockpit camera tile is showing.

Has the shell bridge draw the camera picture straight onto the screen at full quality. Off goes back to the old way, where the app receives and draws each frame. Vehicle boxes, the blind-spot border and Top view + rear need it on.

Draws boxes around vehicles and people found in the turn-signal camera picture. Needs Live view on.

When the car’s blind-spot warning is on and a vehicle is found in that camera window, the window’s border turns thick and red. Needs Live view on.

What the cluster shows when reversing. Classic follows “Side camera in reverse” below; Top view + rear shows a bird’s-eye view on the left and the rear camera on the right. Top view + rear needs Live view on.

OptionsClassicTop view + rear

Which cameras the Classic reverse view shows: off, left, right, both, or three ways (left, rear, right). Three ways adds each direction’s parking-sensor distance to its window; with several cameras at once the picture is coarser.

OptionsOffLeftRightBothThree ways

Puts the Top view + rear picture on the cluster even when not reversing, so you can watch it while adjusting the values below. Needs the launcher’s cluster and Live view on.

Draws guide lines over the Top view + rear picture, using the values under “Car size · guide-line reference” below.

Flips the camera picture left to right, like a mirror.

Picks the camera the settings below apply to. Left, right and rear each keep their own values.

OptionsLeftRightRear

Off shows the picture as captured; Light removes the lens bulge; Normal and Strong straighten lines; Box fills the window with the whole frame.

OptionsOffLightNormalStrongBox

How strongly the Light correction straightens the lens bulge. The row only appears with Light.

How wide a horizontal angle Normal and Strong correction take in, 70° to 140°.

How tall a vertical angle Normal and Strong correction take in, 50° to 110°.

Where, top to bottom, the shown band starts in the picture. Lower shows more ground; higher brings in the horizon.

Turns the view left or right. 0 is straight ahead; turn it rearwards if the camera mostly shows the side of the car.

Turns the view up or down. 0 is straight ahead.

How tall a band of the picture is shown. Not used with Box, so the row is hidden then.

Shows both side cameras even when you signal one way.

Shows both side cameras when the hazard lights are on. Off by default.

Connects to the cameras as soon as you shift into D so the picture appears the moment you signal. Frames only flow while signalling, and a car that cannot connect stops trying after a few attempts.

Shows the turn-signal camera in a round window; off gives a rectangle. Applies to both sides.

How the page-2 controls are drawn.

OptionsBoxesIcons

Ties several controls to a trigger and runs them together. It is switched off for now while it is being tested.

Changes that automation sequence’s name, trigger, and the switches it turns on and off.

Adds a Drive log page to home that groups each trip, start to switch-off, by day.

Keeps average and top speed and the speed graph in the drive log.

Records power use in the drive log.

Records the route in the drive log. It shows exactly where you went, so it can be turned off on its own.

Shows what each trip cost in electricity, using the charging price below.

Enter the price per kWh and charging cost is worked out for you.

Price of a litre of petrol, used for the “Money saved” figure on the My car tile: what this month’s distance would have cost in petrol, minus the electricity used.

Deletes that whole log. This cannot be undone.

Adds a Charging tab to the drive log page that records every charge.

The car's battery capacity in kWh, used to work out kWh from the percentage gained when consumption cannot be read.

Says the drive mode out loud when it changes.

Plays an exhaust note in Sport mode.

Ducks the music while the announcement plays. An app cannot go louder than the system volume, so the only way to be heard is to make the music quieter.

Says the gear out loud when you change it.

Says when ACC (adaptive cruise) turns on or off. The bar is the volume; all the way left is off.

Says when ICC (lane centring) turns on or off. The bar is the volume; all the way left is off.

Says “vehicle approaching” when a car enters the next lane, using the car's blind-spot detection. The bar is the volume; all the way left is off.

Below this speed, approaching cars are not announced — so it does not keep talking in traffic.

Sounds when you pass the speed you set — your own number, not the road's limit. The bar is the volume; all the way left is off.

The speed at which the overspeed sound plays.

Choose the sound used for the overspeed warning.

Optionsoverspeed

Greets you once when you start the car. On the day's first start between 4 a.m. and 11 a.m. it reads out the battery level and range; at other times it greets you to suit the time of day and the weather. Shown only when a Gemini key is set.

Whether pressing a car-control switch plays a click sound or says what changed (“ventilation level 2”).

OptionsSoundVoice

How loud the switch feedback is. All the way left is off.

Turns on or off whether the stock voice assistant wakes up to “Hi BYD”. Shown only on units that have the stock voice assistant.

Enter your own Gemini API key from Google AI Studio. It is stored only on this unit; “QR” reads it from a QR picture instead. Voice control, the greeting and AI chat appear only once a key is set.

Picks the Gemini model used for chat and voice control. The list is fetched from Google with your key; a model that is not listed can be typed in by name. Changing the model starts the AI's conversation memory over.

Picks the Gemini speech model that turns the AI's replies into sound. Auto tries the models in order until one works. Choosing one plays a sample line with it.

Shows the mic button. Tap it and speak: Gemini works out what you said and either operates a car function or answers out loud. Needs a Gemini key.

How fast the AI speaks (70–160%). The pitch stays the same. Let go of the slider to hear a line at that speed.

How much the AI voice is boosted (100–300%). Let go of the slider to hear a line at that level.

When on, the stock voice assistant's wake word becomes “Hi Beetle”; when the stock assistant wakes, its dialog is closed and Beetle Launcher's AI chat opens instead. While it is on, conversations started with the steering-wheel voice button or the stock voice icon also go to the Beetle AI. Turning it off restores the original wake word.

Floats the voice button on top of everything. It works while another app such as navigation is on screen, and tapping it does not bring the launcher forward. Drag it to move it.

When on, the mic button stays hidden. Double-tap the launcher screen to bring it out; double-tap again to hide it.

Phrases you taught on the spot when a command was not understood. Remove a wrong one here.

Moves the floating mic back to its default place. Use it when it has ended up off screen.

Reopens the mic as soon as the AI finishes answering. It only keeps listening while the AI chat screen is open, and closes by itself if you say nothing. When off, it listens only when you tap the mic.

Fills in or edits one field of About me. Gender and MBTI are picked from a list; the rest are typed. Can only be filled in while parked.

Picks the navigation app shown in the nav centre. Installed stock navigation (TMAP Auto) and apps such as Naver Map are listed; for anything else, “Other app…” lists every installed app. For the app to open as a window, Freeform window must be on in the App windows tab.

When on, the right 20% of the navigation screen becomes a column. Its four slots, top to bottom, can hold the media center or dashboard tiles.

Turns Android's freeform-window developer option on or off over wireless ADB. It takes effect from the next start, after the car has been switched off once; the row shows On, From next start or Off. Wireless ADB must be open.

Hides the stock bottom dock and top status bar while an app window is open. The bars come back while you type in a text field inside the window. Turning it off restores them immediately.

Add one by hand with a name and a URL.

Reads beetle-radio.txt from the Download folder into the list. A line of the form “id=URL” changes a built-in station's address; “name|URL” adds a station.

Drops your edits to built-in entries and brings back any you hid. Entries you added yourself are kept.

Edits that entry's name and address. Built-in entries can be put back with Default. Delete, next to it, removes an entry you added and hides a built-in one.

Add one by hand with a name and a URL.

Reads beetle-tv.txt from the Download folder into the list. A line of the form “id=URL” changes a built-in channel's address; “name|URL” adds a channel.

Drops your edits to built-in entries and brings back any you hid. Entries you added yourself are kept.

Edits that entry's name and address. Built-in entries can be put back with Default. Delete, next to it, removes an entry you added and hides a built-in one.

“View” opens a window with CPU, GPU and memory use, refreshed every second. Values the system will not give are shown as “—”.

Enter the day you took delivery of the car. The «days together» count on the My car tile starts from this day as day 1.

At boot, or when the screen comes back on, brings Beetle Launcher to the front if the stock home is showing. It does not cover another app, such as navigation, that is already in front.

Starts the turn-signal camera ahead of time when the car starts. If the turn-signal camera is off this does nothing. Needs wireless ADB.

Picks Korean or English for the launcher. Which domestic or overseas features you get is set separately by Region below.

OptionsKoreanEnglish

Chooses domestic (Korea) or overseas behaviour. Navigation hand-off, the default radio and TV lists and the support QR codes follow it. The line under it shows the country code the car reports.

OptionsKoreaOverseas

An indicator showing whether Beetle Launcher is the default home right now. If it is off, the home key does not come to the launcher.

Shown only while another app is the default home. Sets Beetle Launcher back as home through wireless ADB; if that fails it says why and then opens the system home chooser.

An indicator: whether this car can split the screen right now.

This car cannot put the home app into split screen. Hand the home role back to the stock launcher and Beetle Launcher can go into a split.

The permission the launcher uses to tap through stock screens for you. “On” registers it; if self-grant has not been done yet, it runs self-grant over wireless ADB first.

The light shows whether wireless ADB is open now. “Turn on in one go” rotates the screen to portrait, presses the switch on the stock ADB screen for you, and rotates back. Accessibility must be on.

Whether the screen is also turned to portrait when the launcher switches wireless ADB on in other cases, such as installing an update. “Turn on in one go” and “switch on when the launcher starts” always rotate regardless.

Each time the launcher comes up it checks wireless ADB and re-arms things like notification access and accessibility. It does not switch ADB on — that is the next row.

When the launcher is in front, the car is stopped and wireless ADB is off, it switches it on (at most once every 30 minutes). If accessibility is off it opens the ADB screen in portrait so you can switch it on by hand.

Whether the ADB screen stands at 90° or 270° when it is turned portrait. The upright portrait is not the same on every car. Putting it back uses the value read before the turn, so this setting does not affect that.

Options90°270°

The permission used to read the title and cover of the track that is playing. “On” registers it; self-grant has to be done first.

Connects to the car over wireless ADB and grants the launcher permissions such as WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS. When “Allow USB debugging” appears on the car screen, choose “Always allow”. Accessibility is registered along with it.

“My keys as QR” shows the keys you have entered as a QR code. Put a photo of it into the other car's picture folder and press “Read” to load all the keys at once.

The version installed right now.

The commit that build came from.

An eight-character tag made the first time the app ran (followed by your nickname if you set one). Include it in a photo when you report something so the car can be told apart. It is not personal data such as the VIN.

The state of the connection to the car's SDK.

Which app is the default home right now (Beetle Launcher, not set, or the other app's name).

The head unit's maker, model and Android version.

This screen's size and density.

When you agreed and to what. “Read it again” shows the text you saw at the time.

What this launcher reads from the car, what it taps, and what it never does.

Shown only if the screen ever froze for more than 25 seconds and the launcher handed home back to the stock launcher; it shows when that last happened. To use Beetle Launcher as home again, take it back under System › Normal.

Checks for a new release. The download runs in the background and you are asked before it installs. On a test build it takes you back to the release.

Fetches a test build. It needs the developer password and a download key, and is never fetched automatically.