Islandly — Dynamic Island

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About this app

Turn your camera cutout into a living island.

Music, calls, notifications, charging and deliveries appear in a smooth pill around your front camera —
glanceable when you are busy, and expandable when you want to act. Tap it and the island slides clear of
the lens, then opens into real controls.

WHAT IT SHOWS
• Now playing — album art, a moving scrubber, and full previous / play / next controls
• Incoming calls — answer and decline right on the island, without opening the dialer
• Messages — the full text, with quick replies that never open the app
• Deliveries, rides and navigation, with live progress
• Charging status and battery level
• A clock and battery readout when nothing else is happening

BUILT AROUND YOUR CAMERA
Most phones put the camera somewhere slightly different, so the island measures yours and shapes itself
to fit. Tap "Fit to camera" to measure it again, or set width, height and position by hand with four
sliders. Centred punch-holes, corner holes and wide notches all work.

SWIPE, TAP, DONE
• Tap a card to open the app exactly where the notification points — the conversation, the order
• Swipe a card away to clear the notification for real. It leaves the shade too
• Swipe the pill to look through everything that is live
• Several activities stack as separate cards, so you can read them all at once

MAKE IT YOURS
Five themes — Obsidian, Midnight, Graphite, AMOLED and Light. Choose an accent colour, a pill outline,
and glass or solid cards. Pick exactly which apps are allowed to reach the island, or let them all in.

LIGHT ON BATTERY
This is the part most island apps get wrong. There is no polling and no background scanning. The island
wakes when something actually happens and sleeps the rest of the time — when nothing is going on it draws
nothing at all, not even a frame. The clock updates from Android's own once-a-minute tick.

PREMIUM (OPTIONAL)
The app is free and ad-supported. Premium removes every ad and unlocks all themes and accent colours,
as a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in your own
currency in the app. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled, and can be cancelled any time
in the Play Store. Nothing is locked behind it that the island needs to work.

PRIVACY
Your notifications are read on your phone and never leave it. Neither does your music information. The
app shows ads and reports anonymous crash and usage statistics, and those never include anything from
your notifications or your messages.

WHY IT NEEDS THE ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE
Dynamic Island uses Android's accessibility service for one reason: it is the only way an app is allowed
to draw on the camera cutout and stay tappable there. It does not read your screen, and it cannot see what
you type or which apps you use. You can turn it off at any time in Android Settings.

Note: Android switches accessibility services off whenever an app updates. If the island disappears after
an update, open the app and turn it back on — it will tell you.

WORKS ON
Android 7.0 and newer. Phones with a punch-hole camera or a notch get the most out of it.