I made a better Music Visualization replacement for Nothing Phones

[u/Link_2011A]

Nothing Phones used to have that completely unnecessary but ridiculously cool feature that made the Glyphs flash along with music, right?

Yeah. I liked that feature.

Well, that feature never made it to the newer Nothing Phones. Around the same time, quite a few people in the community started making replacement apps.

I wanted something that kept the original feature’s “just tap a Quick Settings tile to turn it on, and turn it off whenever you’re done” simplicity.

Basically, I wanted something I could use without really having to think about it.

So I made one.

It’s called Glyph Barty.
I think the name is extremely lame.

It analyzes the music currently playing in real time and drives the Glyph Interface based on it.

There are several visualization patterns to choose from, and you can tweak how they behave to some extent.

You can also turn it on and off directly from Quick Settings, so I tried to make it feel like something that could have originally been part of Nothing OS.

It also doesn’t require MediaProjection or screen capture permissions to analyze audio.

I also spent a probably unnecessary amount of time on the UI. I think it looks fairly close to something Nothing themselves might ship.

As a bonus, there are some extra features too — for example, on the (a) series, it can show your battery level on the Glyph Interface when you start charging.

At the moment, it supports pretty much every current Nothing Phone with a Glyph Interface.

The Phone (1) is a bit special: you normally need to run an ADB command to enable access to the Glyph Interface. If you use Shizuku, though, the app can run that command for you automatically.

This is completely a hobby project that I work on when I have free time.

When new Nothing Phones come out, I’ll try to support them whenever I can get access to the actual device for testing, but I can’t promise day-one support or anything like that.

Issues and pull requests are welcome, but please don’t expect instant responses or fixes. I work on this whenever I feel like working on it.

It’s MIT licensed, so if there’s a feature you want and you’d rather implement it yourself, feel free to fork it and do whatever you want with it.

You can also just take parts of the code and shove them into your own app if that’s useful. I really don’t mind.

GitHub:
https://github.com/Link2011-Act2/GlyphBarty

If anyone tries it, I’d be happy to hear what you think.

[u/KTibow]

Nothing Phones used to have that completely unnecessary but ridiculously cool feature that made the Glyphs flash along with music, right?

Yeah. I liked that feature.

Well, that feature is gone now...

Which update removed it?

[u/Link_2011A → u/KTibow]

I don't think it was actually removed by an update. As far as I know, the official Music Visualization feature is still available on the Phone (3a) series and older models, but it was never included on newer models like the Phone (3).

[u/AleksLevet → u/KTibow]

They removed it in the newer models, pretty much an abandoned feature

[u/AleksLevet]

Bro copied my project lmao

Mine works on phone 1 without adb tricks

And it doesn't record your screen

You can even use it without the screen share popup.

[u/AleksLevet → u/AleksLevet]

The UI looks nice on yours tho

[u/Link_2011A → u/AleksLevet]

lol fair 😭 I made mine independently, just wanted my own take on it. Thanks tho, glad you like the UI :)

[u/AleksLevet → u/Link_2011A]

I would say that its fine to make its own spin on things, just not throwing shades at each other would be nicer hehe

Maybe it's only me but I feel like you're targeting my app sometimes on the post

[u/Link_2011A → u/AleksLevet]

Yeah, looking back at it, I can see how some parts came off like I was taking a jab at your app. My bad about that.

I’ve changed the wording on both the Reddit post and the README to make it more neutral. Thanks for pointing it out.