It’s no longer 2013, and yet Google has decided to do something deliciously retro: launch a page allowing you to create your own Android Bot in a few clicks.
You may remember Androidify, this Google application launched in 2011, on Android 2.1, allowed you to create personalized avatars based on Android’s green mascot. Permanently abandoned and removed from the Play Store in 2020, the latter returns, in a way, in a different form.
Following the launch last year of a revised version of its mascot, Google put a page online allowing you to “ create your own Android Bot» using a tool that will bring back many memories to the oldest users of the OS. Still quite rudimentary, the utility in question nevertheless allows you to create a personalized mascot in a few clicks, based on materials, outfits, and accessories, to be applied to your little one. bugdroid .
A bugdroid to create in a few clicks, and then share
Accessible at this address, the tool for creating a personalized mascot allows you to choose between 25 materials and textures (camouflage, tennis ball, wood, translucent materials, etc.), then between 20 different outfits (Kill Bill, astronaut, overalls, Hawaiian shirt…) and add two accessories from around forty, divided into two sections (“accessory” and “props”).
Once the creation of the avatar is finalized, we obtain a QR code (which crashed my iPhone), but it is also possible to download the avatar locally. bugdroidgot.
As pointed out9to5Google , this new feature was launched by Google in view of MWC 2024, which is due to open its doors in Barcelona in a few days. It also follows the creation, last year, of two personalized bugdroids for Sundar Pichai and Dave Burke ( CEO AndVP Engineeringfrom Google, respectively).