Almost every fan of the Android OS knows that its developers hid some kind of “Easter eggs” in the system, which are not so easy to find. Each OS version has its own. More on one of these “Easter eggs” below: we'll talk. What is the Empty Dish (Easter Egg) feature in Android and what is it for?
Empty Dish (empty plate) is a simple game from Google, the main goal of which is to collect captured cats. Many deservedly compare it with Pokemon GO, but the “Easter egg” is much simpler. The game is available in Android Nougat versions (7.0 and 8.0).
Empty dish is a game Easter egg in Android 7.0 and 8.0
It’s worth mentioning right away that catching cats is not an easy task. You need to choose a treat to lure the cat, and then have time to catch it before the cat “goes away.” This can happen an hour after choosing a treat, or maybe a minute later. In this case, there is a possibility that a cat that is already in the collection will covet the treat. This is the whole essence of the game.
Of course, the developers have provided the ability to share their results with friends and other OS users. This also introduces a competitive effect into collecting. And of course, this game will definitely appeal to cat lovers.
If you strictly follow the instructions, then there is nothing complicated about it. It is almost impossible to turn on the game yourself without knowing all the conditions. So what do you need to do to get started?
Instructions:
After these simple actions The game will become available, but that's not all that needs to be done. Further actions are like that.
That's it, now you can play. Everything here is elementary simple. You need to click on the plate icon, after which several options for “treats” will be offered. Having placed the food on the plate, all that remains is to wait for the notification of the cat’s arrival to appear: "A cat is here". You need to open the notification in a timely manner to get the cat into your collection.
For those who just found out about the availability in Android (7.0 and 8.0) " easter egg"in the form of the cat Neko, it’s always interesting, what happened before in other versions? We answer:
In the eighth version of the operating system, the user can play with an octopus on his screen. All that remains is to wish you good luck in collecting a collection of cats, because you already know what Empty Dish (Easter Egg) is in Android and how this Easter egg works.
Google leaves hidden Android Easter eggs inside its operating system for many years now. We have collected all the surprises of the operating system, from Android Gingerbread to Android Nougat, in one article.
The Easter egg found in Android 2.3 Gingerbread looks, frankly, scary. The demonic hand-painted painting depicts a gingerbread man with a bow tie around his neck and yellow eyes, while an Android stands nearby surrounded by zombies. This first Easter egg is not only creepy, but also completely different from Google's subsequent surprises. Fortunately.
To see this Easter egg, you need, like all other Easter eggs on our list, to go to settings, go to “About phone” and click on “ Android version” until the Easter egg appears.
The Easter egg in this version of Android is less scary than in Gingerbread, but no less strange. To activate this surprise, you need to repeat the steps described above, and you will see a neon bee. Under the bee there will be a field with the word "REZZZZZ".
Remember Nyan Cat? A pixelated cat that flies and leaves behind a trail of rainbows? Well, Android paid tribute to the beloved internet code with an Easter egg in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
After a few clicks on the android version, a pixel hero will appear. When you press and hold your finger on the character, a flying Nyandroid will appear. Cool.
Devices running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean may find an Easter egg in the form of a large red jelly bean. Access to it opens as in previous cases. Once the jelly bean appears, press and hold your finger on it. A lot of gummies will appear that you can swipe from the screen.
The Easter egg in Android 4.4 KitKat pays homage to all past versions of Android. Go to settings - about phone and click on the android version several times. A spinning letter K will appear. Tap and hold on it to see the KitKat logo. Tap and hold on the logo to open tiles with previous versions of the operating system.
This Easter egg is similar to its predecessor, only instead of lollipops there are marshmallows. The game is also launched through settings -> About phone. Next, you need to press and hold on the marshmallow, after which the game will open.
IN new version Android 7.0 Nougat Easter egg is a game in which you need to catch cats by attracting them with food (I agree, it sounds strange). To find this Easter egg, go to the settings menu and select About phone. Tap the Android version several times until the letter N appears. Press and hold on that letter, then release.
If a cat's head appears below N, it means the Easter egg has been activated. Now open the menu quick settings(swipe down from the top of the screen twice) and click the Edit button: you will see a new icon. Place the dish icon in the notification bar and tap it to select bait.
Continue to use your phone as usual, you will be notified if the cat comes to your plate.
New easter egg has blue screen with a black octopus swimming around. The octopus has an egg-shaped head that you can use to drag it around the screen if you want, and it has eight tentacles (which is probably why it's an Easter egg character). While it's not the most attractive feature, it's a nice addition. To activate this Easter egg, you need to open “Settings” -> “System” -> “About phone” as usual and tap “Android version” several times until a yellow circle appears.
Press it several times and hold your finger there for a while.
It included a hidden game reminiscent of the popular game Flappy Bird. In Android 6, the game design has changed, but the mechanics remain. You need to score as many points as possible by guiding your robot hero through all sorts of obstacles. You can control the hero only by tapping on the screen (the robot will jump). Android 7 also has an Easter egg. But this is no longer an action game.
In Android 7 you are asked to feed the cats. First you need to follow the standard steps: go to “ Settings > About phone" and tap several times on the item " Android version" Then you need to press long and hard on the OS logo until a cat appears under the logo (it is recommended to alternate short presses with long ones).
Now you need to click on the cat, open the top curtain completely, select “ Change"and find the switch at the bottom with the name Android Easter Egg. After dragging the switch to the “curtain”, it turns into a plate ( Dish). Now, by tapping on the plate, you can put a treat in it. After some time, the system will notify that the cat has come to eat. This way you can “catch” cats. The list of caught animals can be opened with a long tap on the plate.
Hardcore Android fans know that there are Easter eggs hidden throughout the system. The seventh version, called Nougat, was no exception. In it you can activate the game of collecting cats. You need to occasionally put a treat in an empty bowl and catch the cat that comes.
The process of activating the Easter eggs is described in detail in the blog, but here I will tell you what is under the hood.
In the game, cats appear with three-digit numbers. Theoretically, there can be 1000 cats from 000 to 999 (in fact, no, the program uses a different algorithm, but for us this is not important).
I was wondering how they are stored in the application. An Internet search led me to a resource where the source code for the Easter Egg is posted.
Later on Github I found a modified code that allows you to run the game like normal application on any device, not just Android 7. The compiled version from these sources can be found Google Play By keywords Neko Collector.
The second example is more convenient to study, since there is no extra code for activating the Easter egg, which we do not need.
It wasn't hard to guess that most of the magic happens in the Cat class.
Paws, eyes, torso, collar, bow, etc. are stored in a similar way. And then all this is collected in the inner class constructor CatParts
CatParts(Context context) ( if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) ( body = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.body); head = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.head); leg1 = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.leg1); leg2 = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.leg2); leg3 = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.leg3); leg4 = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.leg4); tail = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.tail); leftEar = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.left_ear); rightEar = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.right_ear); rightEarInside = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.right_ear_inside) ); leftEarInside = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.left_ear_inside); faceSpot = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.face_spot); mouth = context.getDrawable(R.drawable) .mouth); foot4 = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.foot4); foot3 = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.foot3); foot1 = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.foot1); .drawable.foot2); leg2Shadow = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.leg2_shadow);
tailShadow = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.tail_shadow);
tailCap = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.tail_cap); belly = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.belly); back = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.back);
rightEye = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.right_eye); leftEye = context.getDrawable(R.drawable.left_eye); 7.
) else ( // here is the code for older versions ) drawingOrder = getDrawingOrder();
)
Since the vector has a wonderful ability to change the fill on the fly, we randomly select colors and generate a unique cat. The main thing is not to overdo it. You should not paint one paw black and the other paw brown.
At the beginning of July, monthly statistics on Android distribution appeared and for the first time the Nougat version in it exceeded 10%. This Google product has had problems with adoption rates since its birth. The reason is too many stakeholders.
Google releases new versions every year, they are available to everyone for free, but then the difficulties begin. Every device manufacturer, such as Samsung, LG or HTC, wants to create their own Android shell, stand out and thereby attract buyers. It takes time to develop and test these varieties. After this, operators can get involved mobile communications, which must adapt different shells to work in their networks.
There are advantages to all this. For example, third party vendors bring new ideas. Each company offers at least a couple of new functionality, sometimes in the next generation Google includes them in stock Android. An example is the ability to respond to SMS directly in the notification panel, which is now available on stock Nougat, and before that was available only on Samsung devices for several years.
Nine will be described below. interesting opportunities pure Android Nougat. Testing was carried out on the Nexus 6P smartphone. It is possible that these options will not be available on other smartphones or will work differently.
This feature is not new, as several manufacturers have had it before. For example, it existed in Galaxy models Note. Now the option is included in pure Nougat and should reach most models.
You can display two applications at once in landscape and portrait modes. When one program is open, you can launch the second by long pressing the recent applications button (small square). After entering multitasking mode, this button turns into an icon with vertical stripes. The ability to change is limited and only available in portrait mode. You can exit multitasking by dragging the dividing line all the way to one side or by long pressing the recent applications button.
Not all programs support separation yet. For example, it is not optimized for it " Google Search».
Nougat allows you to go back and forth between two latest apps by double pressing the recent programs button. This works both in normal mode and with two open applications. This simple trick should have been introduced into the system a long time ago.
To access the hidden UI Tuner menu, double swipe down to open the gear icon and long press it. The menu will appear in the settings in the “System” section. When activated, a warning is issued that this contains experimental features, they may change in the future, not work or disappear.
There are interesting options here, like the ability to make changes to the status bar, the Do Not Disturb feature, etc. Explore them, but keep in mind that not all of them will be usable. UI Tuner is available in stock Android Marshmallow but is missing in the Samsung variant. It is quite possible that this menu will not be available from most other manufacturers.
With two swipes down, you can access the Quick Settings tiles. Latest version system allows you to edit these tiles.
When the panel is pulled out, expand the small arrow on the right side to see a full list of tiles, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, etc. The system allows you to choose which tiles will be here permanently. To do this, click on the “Edit” button in the lower right corner and gain access to full list tiles, they can be dragged.
Another useful change is that you can swipe left or right to access additional tiles. Theoretically, it is possible to display all the tiles for quick access.
The system gives the most corrosive users the opportunity to gain complete control over it. First, you need to activate the UI Tuner menu mentioned above and in the “Other” section turn on the “Advanced notification control” switch. Here you can set the priority on a scale from 0 (block everything) to 5 (show at the top of the list even over the running program).
By going to Settings > Notifications, you can set each app's priority by tapping the big green "A" on the left.
You can open their settings by long-pressing on a specific notification in the drop-down panel or moving the notification to the side to reveal a gear icon. This trick also works on the lock screen.
Some manufacturers already had this opportunity, but now it has appeared in a clean version. You need to long press on the home screen to change the wallpaper. Once an image is selected, you'll be asked if you want to set that wallpaper on your home screen, lock screen, or both.
Thanks to the spread of computers and mobile devices Everyone has vision problems more more and more people early age. As a result, a larger image and font may be required. Pure Android satisfies this need.
You can change the image size by enlarging the text and icons at “Screen > Display Size”. There are five options available here.
As usual, Google hasn't forgotten about little surprise. Two previous versions systems offered a hidden Flappy Bird game. The game was so difficult that many quickly lost interest. Nougat offers a strange cat game.
1. Go to Settings > About Phone and tap the system version number repeatedly until a large "N" logo appears.
2. Long press on the logo until you see a cat icon at the bottom.
3. Swipe down to open the notification panel.
4. Click edit, scroll down and find a small cat icon that says “???? Android Easter Egg. Drag and drop anywhere.
5. Now, when you open Quick Settings, you will see the “Empty Bowl” tile. Pressing gives you a choice of four types of food.
6. Wait. You will receive a notification that you have caught a cat.
