Android 15’s spaceship Easter egg now has a model new flaggy twist

Each time Google launches a model new mannequin of the Android working system, they want to sneak in a satisfying little Easter egg. These Android Easter eggs usually take the kind of a bite-sized sport (identical to the full-on Flappy Fowl clone in Android 5.0) or a instrument that pertains to some essential operate of the model new OS mannequin (like Cat Controls in Android 11). Whereas the spaceship Easter egg throughout the upcoming Android 15 substitute is principally unchanged from the sooner launch, it does have one tiny change: Your ship now crops a flag on any planets you land on.

When you have got a phone or tablet working Android 14, you could play Android’s hidden spaceship sport correct now. We’ve documented what the Android 14 Easter egg does sooner than within the occasion you’re , nevertheless primarily, you pilot a ship whereas in quest of celestial our our bodies orbiting a star, strewn all through the large expanse of space. You can faucet on the show display screen to handle the route of the ship, or you could faucet and drag your finger to change its velocity. Your ship’s place and velocity are overlaid on the bottom left of the show display screen, whereas information concerning the closest star is overlaid on the excessive left.

There’s no approach to win at Android 14’s spaceship sport, nevertheless you could fly spherical until you uncover the entire celestial our our bodies orbiting the star on the center (0,0). When you uncover a celestial physique whereas collaborating within the sport on Android 14, the “BODIES” counter throughout the excessive left is incremented by 1. Nonetheless, apart from the inexperienced line that reveals your ship’s path, there’s nothing on the celestial physique itself indicating that you simply simply’ve been there, and that’s no satisfying.

Fortunately, Android 15 will rectify this by planting a yellow flag on any celestial our our bodies that you simply simply’ve landed on. It’s an admittedly tiny change to the spaceship Easter egg, nevertheless one which’s delightfully in line with the theme of the game, which is exploration.

Speaking of which, within the occasion you’re questioning why the Android 14 Easter egg is what it is, try Android 14’s model:

The model choices Android’s iconic droid mascot the opposite means up as if it had been a celestial physique. This is usually a homage to the Apollo 14 mission patch, explaining why the Easter egg services on space.

How do you entry the Android 15 Easter egg?

The Android 15 Easter egg is accessed the equivalent method every earlier Android Easter egg was accessed. All it’s advisable to do is the subsequent:

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Uncover the About phone net web page.
3. Faucet on Android mannequin
4. Repeatedly faucet on the Android mannequin self-discipline
5. After just a few taps, it’s good to see the Android 15 model floating via space, as confirmed beneath.
6. Lastly, press and preserve on the Android 15 model for a few seconds until the spaceship sport launches. You will need to see the model switch and actually really feel your phone vibrate because the celebrities throughout the background whiz earlier.

These steps work for stock Android/Pixel UI. The exact steps to hunt out the “Android mannequin” self-discipline will differ on totally different devices, nevertheless the methodology to launch the Easter egg could be the equivalent.

On the newest public mannequin of Android 15, ie. Android 15 Beta 2.2, though, landing on a celestial physique gained’t result in a yellow flag being planted on it. That’s because of the facility to plant a flag is … gated behind a operate flag. Certain, Google created a flag for flags, one factor the company is acutely aware is form of silly. I wanted to manually enable the flag to showcase the flag being planted throughout the screenshot from sooner than, however it’s likely this flag shall be enabled by default in an upcoming Android 15 beta launch.