{"id":22770,"date":"2017-05-23T18:23:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=22770"},"modified":"2017-05-23T18:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:53:40","slug":"how-to-play-flappy-droid-in-android-7-0-nougat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/how-to-play-flappy-droid-in-android-7-0-nougat\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Play Flappy Droid in Android 7.0 Nougat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have adored Google\u2019s\u00a0Android\u00a0easter eggs\u00a0ever since they\u00a0incarnated in Android 2.3 Gingerbread yet before Android 5.0 Lollipop, they were just simple visual easter eggs. With Lollipop, Google combined the very addictive and infuriating Flappy Bird game as the easter egg. Dubbed Flappy Droid, this game could be played in both Lollipop and Android 6.0 Marshmallow from the Settings-&gt;About Phone-&gt;Android version alternative.\u00a0The Flappy Bird game was certainly a cool addition however with\u00a0Android 7.0 Nougat, Google has introduced a new easter egg, which is only an alternate version of\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=jp.co.hit_point.nekoatsume&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neko\u00a0Atsume<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<p>It\u2019s a game in the Navigation Bar\u2019s Quick Settings, where you put up a bait to catch cats.\u00a0Chances are, you won\u2019t discover the new game as fun as Flappy Droid\u00a0and if you don\u2019t, the great news is, Google has not removed the code for the Flappy Droid\u00a0game in Nougat, so you can still play it. So,\u00a0<strong>here\u2019s how you can enable and play Flappy Droid in Android Nougat:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will need a third party launcher, which supports custom shortcuts for activities. We are using the<strong>Nova Launcher<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free<\/a><\/span><\/strong>) but you can install one of the\u00a0various other launchers.<\/li>\n<li>After you have installed the launcher app, set it as the device\u2019s default launcher. To do that,\u00a0go to<strong>Settings-&gt;Apps<\/strong>\u00a0and hit the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>cog icon<\/strong>\u00a0on the top right. Then, head over to \u201c<strong>Home app<\/strong>\u201d and select \u201c<strong>Nova Launcher<\/strong>\u201c.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nova-Launcher-Default-Home-App-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nova-Launcher-Default-Home-App-1.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nova-Launcher-Default-Home-App-1-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once done, go to<strong>the homescreen and press hold anywhere<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>to bring up the home screen options. Tap on \u201c<strong>Widgets<\/strong>\u201c. Then,\u00a0among the various Nova Launcher widgets,\u00a0add the\u00a0<strong>Activities shortcut<\/strong>\u00a0widget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nova-Launcher-Activities-shortcut-1.png\" alt=\"How to Play Flappy Droid in Android 7.0 Nougat\" width=\"640\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nova-Launcher-Activities-shortcut-1.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nova-Launcher-Activities-shortcut-1-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<ul>\n<li>Then, the Activities page should open up. Here, tap on \u201c<strong>System UI<\/strong>\u201d and select \u201c<strong>Marshmallow Land<\/strong>\u201d as the activity for the shortcut.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Flappy-Droid-Activity-1.png\" alt=\"How to Play Flappy Droid in Android 7.0 Nougat\" width=\"640\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Flappy-Droid-Activity-1.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Flappy-Droid-Activity-1-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will then see a\u00a0<strong>shortcut\u00a0named Marshmallow Land<\/strong>\u00a0on the home screen. You can just\u00a0<strong>tap it to launch the Flappy Droid<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>game<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Flappy-Droid-game-in-Android-Nougat-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Flappy-Droid-game-in-Android-Nougat-1.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Flappy-Droid-game-in-Android-Nougat-1-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can even set up the game to launch with a gesture from the home screen but you will want the Prime version (<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher.prime&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$4.99<\/a><\/span>)<\/strong> of Nova Launcher to do it. Yet, you can utilize the\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.anddoes.launcher&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apex Launcher<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, as it gives gesture support in its free version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<ul>\n<li>If you don\u2019t need a separate launcher, you can also take an appearance at the app dubbed\u00a0<strong>Activity Launcher<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=de.szalkowski.activitylauncher&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free<\/a><\/span><\/strong>), which gives you to add shortcuts for custom activity. You can simply open the app, select \u201c<strong>All Activities<\/strong>\u201d from the drop-down menu at the top. Then, scroll and discover \u201c<strong>System UI<\/strong>\u201c. Tap on it and you have to discover the\u00a0<strong>Marshmallow Land<\/strong>\u00a0game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Activity-Launcher-all-activities-1.png\" alt=\"How to Play Flappy Droid in Android 7.0 Nougat\" width=\"640\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Activity-Launcher-all-activities-1.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Activity-Launcher-all-activities-1-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you miss the KitKat easter egg,\u00a0it\u2019s accessible also, under the \u201cDesert Case\u201d moniker. You can simply\u00a0<strong>tap on the activity to start up the game<\/strong>.\u00a0Furthermore, you can even\u00a0<strong>press hold to create a shortcut<\/strong>\u00a0of the Marshmallow Land activity on the home screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Marshmallpw-Land-shortcut-1.png\" alt=\"How to Play Flappy Droid in Android 7.0 Nougat\" width=\"640\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Marshmallpw-Land-shortcut-1.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Marshmallpw-Land-shortcut-1-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"ready-to-play-your-favorite-flappy-droid-game-in-nougat\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Ready to play your favorite Flappy Droid game in Nougat?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Honestly, I\u2019m not a huge fan of the Neko game, simply because it\u2019s not as fun as Flappy Droid from Lollipop and Marshmallow. Well, nothing to worry though, as you can\u00a0use\u00a0the aforementioned steps to easily get the game on your Nougat running device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Play Flappy Droid in Android 7.0 Nougat &#8211; Mobile &#8211; We have adored Google\u2019s Android easter eggs ever since they incarnated in Android 2.3 Gingerbread <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1791,46018],"tags":[65992,65991,59863,65990,11627,65989,65988,65987,65986,65985,65984,65983,27010,65982,22660,65981,65980,65979,65978,65977,65976,65975,65974,65973,65972,65971],"class_list":["post-22770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","category-mobile","tag-android-kitkat-game","tag-android-lollipop-game","tag-android-marshmallow-game","tag-android-n-easter-egg","tag-android-nougat","tag-android-version-game","tag-cat-notification","tag-easter-egg-games","tag-easter-egg-google","tag-easter-eggs","tag-games-for-android-4-4-2","tag-google-cat","tag-google-earth","tag-google-easter-eggs","tag-google-easter-eggs-list","tag-google-hidden-games","tag-hidden-games-in-android","tag-jelly-bean-game","tag-jelly-bean-version","tag-kitkat-game","tag-lollipop-games","tag-lollipop-land","tag-lollipop-version-game","tag-marshmallow-game","tag-mini-games-for-android","tag-nougat-easter-egg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}