You can now bring iOS 16’s coolest home screen feature to Android

The iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max abandon the classic notch screen design and adopt new features Apple calls "Lingdong Island". Many people are excited about the new feature on social media, and Android users may feel a little bit snucked. But the advantage of Android is that there are already third-party applications that can achieve this change. It's called DynamicSpot, and it mimics many of the features Apple has added in the latest iOS update.

What is Lingdong Island?

The pill-shaped notch on the display of the latest iPhone Pro houses important utilities such as selfie cameras, proximity sensors, speakers and microphones. But thanks to the latest iOS update, this "island" has become more powerful, the shape changes, and depending on how you use your phone, small info symbols appear on both sides of the camera.

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In some cases, "Lingdong Island" will also expand its size. For example, when you receive an incoming call, you can choose to answer or reject the call; or when you play audio, you can get playback control. It's a versatile interface innovation that app developers will undoubtedly use more over time.

Google engineers may eventually add similar features to Android in the future, which can take advantage of the punch-hole openings on the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro screens. But at the same time, the DynamicSpot app is a flexible choice for impatient Android users.

Using DynamicSpot for Android

DynamicSpot for Android can be installed for free, but some features require you to pay a one-time $5 fee to unlock the Pro version. These tools include placing the music playback controls in "Spiritual Island" and displaying them on the lock screen.

After installing DynamicSpot, you need to grant it some permissions. For example, the app will request access to your notifications to display them on "Spiritual Island" and request to draw an overlay on the Android interface so that the app can create black shapes of different sizes.

After you have done this, you can start using the settings provided by DynamicSpot. The option at the top of the main menu is Notification. This menu allows you to set whether to display regular notifications in "Lingdong Island" and, if so, set which mobile apps can trigger such alerts.

In the Behavior menu, you can choose to always show "Island" (even if there is no notification or application to display), allow "Island" to be divided into two parts, and set its timeout delay. From here, the Pro version users can place the "Island" on the lock screen and change how they interact with it using short and long presses.

Select Preface from the main menu, you can change the icon used by "Island" and set whether to display the album cover, etc. More options available to professional subscribers, including animated music visualizer and audio playback controls.

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Size is the last important entry in the main menu, located above the options for rating the app, getting help, and upgrading to the Pro version. The size of the "Lingdong Island" and the exact location on the screen. This will be very handy if the app doesn't exactly match the selfie camera cutout on the screen. These options are available to both the free and professional version users.

At the time of writing, the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max were only on the market for a month, so DynamicSpot is still in its early stages. This means that over time, you can still expect more features.

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