Google loves Easter eggs and Apple is possibly the only
company that does them as well or nearly as well as the search giant. One such
Easter egg comes in Android Lollipop, the newest stable version of the Android
OS currently rolling out (painfully slowly) to nexus users. It’s a nod to the
very popular game flappy bird. Adapted with Lollipop inspired backgrounds and
the Android bot replacing the bird, the hidden game can be played without
having to download anything extra if you know where to find it.
Open the
Settings app and scroll down to the About Phone section and tap it. On the
About Phone screen, look for the Android version number and then tap it a few
times. Needless to say you must be running Android 5.0 for this to work.
You’ll see a circle, I always got
a purple one, when you tap the version number over whatever wallpaper you’ve set. Tap it again until it turns into a lollipop with the those same
words written on it. Now tap it again several times and then long press on the
lollipop to launch the game.
There’s two things you need to know; one, I sucked at this
despite doing fairly well with most other flippy bird clones, and two, the game
alternates between which way it moves so you could be jumping between lollipops
going left or right. The direction is set at the start of the game and doesn’t
change unless you start a new game. Unlike flappy birds where you would
normally see the bird positioned ready to fly, tapping the screen is what will
launch the Android bot and start the game.
A few things that are worth appreciating in the game are that the
Android bot doesn’t ‘crash’ into the candy like the bird did into the pipes in
the original game. Instead, it ‘sticks’ to the large overhanging lollipops
because candy is sugar and sugar is sticky. Enjoy your game!
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