Nothing Rolls Out Community Widgets App, Brings Nokia’s Classic Snake Game to Its Smartphones

Nothing has launched a brand new app referred to as Nothing Community Widgets. As the identify suggests, it options widgets akin to video games and instruments for Nothing smartphones co-developed by its passionate person base. One of the primary arrivals on the app is a snake sport which pays homage to the basic snake expertise on Nokia telephones. It is completely out there for Nothing smartphones such because the Nothing Phone 2a Plus and the Nothing Phone 2.

As per the British smartphone producer, the thought for the Snake widget was proposed by Nothing neighborhood member Rahul Janardhanan in January. Instead of growing it in-house, the model reached out to neighborhood developer Thomas Legendre who beforehand labored on Ear (internet) and the Simone Glyph Game.

The Snake sport will be positioned on the house display screen like another widget. Similar to the retro Nokia sport, the objective is to eat the pink dots to make the snake develop longer in measurement whereas avoiding collision with itself. Each dot provides a degree and its pace will increase. The sport ends if the snake collides with its physique. However, the controls are vastly completely different. Instead of utilizing the directional keypad buttons prefer it was required on Nokia telephones, customers can management the snake with swipe gestures.

Nothing says it goals to deliver high quality widgets created by the neighborhood and bundle them with its Community Widgets app which is hosted on the Google Play Store. Nothing neighborhood members can share ideas with the corporate and its software program group will decide if it may be became a widget.

This transfer is a part of the corporate’s ambitions to work with its neighborhood. Notably, the model just lately unveiled the Nothing Phone 2a Plus Community Edition, bringing a end result of the Community Edition Project which started in March this 12 months. It has been co-developed with the Nothing neighborhood in any respect levels — from {hardware} design, and wallpaper design to packaging design, and advertising marketing campaign. The smartphone contains a glow-in-the-dark design with a inexperienced phosphorescent materials coating on the again.