turn the camera hole into a dynamic island

With no Android brands including the dynamic island of the iPhone 14 Pro in their own phones, there are already several ways to simulate the island notification system within Android. And now he comes to us the most complete, the safest and the most beautiful of all: DynamicSpot. If you want this feature on your mobile, you must try it.

It is enough for Apple to get involved in the reform of the experience with cutouts on the screen for it to end up creating a trend: the Dynamic Island. The second most famous island after that of Madonna and a whole software element which, we already assure you, will eventually be copied to the latest android custom layer

. And meanwhile, you can enjoy a kind of dynamic island thanks to DynamicSpot.

Customize your island with an app that works offline

Different applications and island sizes

One of the problems that all apps that change the look of the interface share is access to the screen overlay. Because it requires accessibility tools, DynamicSpot poses some privacy risk. Although this, the developer points out: your application does not share any data, since it does not have access to the Internet.

It does not ask for permission of any kind, it asks for access to overlap other apps. And beyond logical doubts about privacy, DynamicSpot behaves as you would expect in software of this type: it mimics the dynamic island of the iPhone 14 Pro allowing you to place it on your Android to sample.

One of the downsides we found is that the app only gets along with the central cutouts of the screen

: If you have a hole camera on the top left, you still cannot set the island notification directly on that hole. Aside from this dev issue (DynamicSpot is still in beta), the animations and customization work well.

You can choose which applications launch the notification island, you have the possibility to adjust its behavior to a minimum (the application is free; with advanced paid functions) and has no ads.

As for the Android-style dynamic island experience, your chosen notifications will jump to the area you choose. This notification only offers the icon of the app that sent the notification; with the possibility of extending it if you press the camera for a second

(and access the app with a single tap on the notification). And here another of the disadvantages that we find comes into play: if you have configured the mobile to show the notification area when you pull the screen down, the DynamicSpot gesture can create a conflict.

The app felt like a good take on what the original Dynamic Island delivers on its own, still filling the gap. It works great and is quite customizable. Free features are more than enough to enjoy DynamicSpot. And if you need more, you can unlock the full app for $3.99.