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Toyota Connected Services: South Africa vs USA Features

Investigation into why a 2024 Toyota Corolla XS Hybrid 1.8L CBU sedan in South Africa has limited app functionality compared to what's advertised on Toyota's website.

TL;DR

The "Remote Connect" features (remote lock/unlock, remote start, etc.) are US/Canada/Mexico only. The SA MyToyota app and the US Toyota app are essentially different products with the same branding. Google Assistant car control doesn't support Toyota at all.

1. Toyota App Features Are Region-Limited

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The ClipPath Combining Fix: A Technical Story

The Problem

SVG's <clipPath> element defines a clipping region. When a clipPath has multiple children (shapes like <rect>, <circle>, <path>, etc.), the SVG spec is clear:

"The silhouettes of the child elements are logically OR'd together" — SVG 2 Spec

This means if you have:

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// https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-aria-emoji-picker?file=src%2FEmojiPicker.tsx

import {
  Autocomplete,
  Button,
  GridLayout,
  ListBox,
  ListBoxItem,
  Select,
  SelectValue,

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<!-- Need to specify the `installLocation`. Can do this with a config plugin -->
<!-- See `app.json` and `withAndroidManifestAttributes.js` below -->
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.myapp"
    android:installLocation="auto">
    ...
</manifest>

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{
  "cli": {
    "version": ">= 0.52.0"
  },
  "build": {
    "development": {
      "developmentClient": true,
      "distribution": "internal"
    },
    "sim-dev": {

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Patches to get https://framagit.org/StCyr/deck-react-native building

• Add Simulator profiles
• Remove eas-cli and expo-cli dependencies
• Reinstall dependencies

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/*
 * Convert `app.json` to `app.config.js`
 * Install `@expo/config-plugins` as a devDependency
 * Copy the `withAndroidApplicationAttributes` config plugin and related `addAttributesToApplication` function to `app.config.js`
 * Add a `plugins` section to reference the config plugin and specify the attribute to add
 * Build with `eas build -p android ...`
 */
import { AndroidConfig, withAndroidManifest } from "@expo/config-plugins";

function addAttributesToApplication(androidManifest, attributes) {

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/tmp$ git clone https://github.com/wodin/expo-zip-example
Cloning into 'expo-zip-example'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 38, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (38/38), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (22/22), done.
remote: Total 38 (delta 15), reused 38 (delta 15), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (38/38), 170.29 KiB | 369.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (15/15), done.
/tmp$ cd expo-zip-example

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys
import csv
import json
from collections import OrderedDict

# !type
# !group_id
# !group_name

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import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
import { View } from "react-native";
import {
  Button,
  FAB,
  Provider as PaperProvider,
  Text
} from "react-native-paper";
import { Updates } from "expo";
import { SafeAreaProvider, useSafeArea } from "react-native-safe-area-context";