The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max whitethorn person lone arrived yesterday but developers are already dreaming up amusive and absorbing usage cases for Apple’s caller Dynamic Island interface. Take Apollo creator Christian Selig, for instance. On Friday, helium updated his Reddit lawsuit to instrumentality enactment for “Pixel Pals.” The diagnostic adds a Tamagotchi-like critter that does cute things connected apical of your phone’s Dynamic Island portion you person Apollo open. You tin adjacent take betwixt aggregate creatures, including a cat, dog, hedgehog, fox oregon axolotl.
Okay y'all, I deliberation I recovered the champion thought for the Dynamic Island connected the iPhone 14 Pro. I added a feline that lives up determination similar a tamagotchi and conscionable hangs retired and does cute worldly arsenic you browse Reddit successful my app (Apollo). pic.twitter.com/xJJlazHH4E
— Christian Selig (@ChristianSelig) September 16, 2022If you don’t person an iPhone 14 Pro oregon Pro Max, don’t worry. You tin besides adhd the creatures to your telephone arsenic fastener surface widgets – provided you person iOS 16 installed. On the taxable of iPhone widgets, Google teased 1 that volition relation arsenic a shortcut to Chrome’s Dino game.
Selig isn’t the lone idiosyncratic doing thing originative with the iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island. In a tweet spotted by The Verge, WaterMinder creator Kriss Smolka showed disconnected Hit the Island, a crippled that uses the UI constituent for a Pong-style game. You tin download it from the App Store. I tin lone talk for myself, but these apps marque maine a spot jealous I'm inactive rocking an iPhone 12.
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