Overview
- The Playground Apps Builder generates purpose-built mini apps from plain-language prompts, placing them on the home screen without any coding.
- The beta is live today but limited to the Nothing Phone (3) for performance reasons, with users added in batches from a waitlist.
- Current support is restricted to three permissions—location, read-only calendar, and contacts—and to 2x2 and 4x2 widget sizes.
- Nothing targets a late-February OS update for activity recognition, usage stats, sensor data, and a Weather API, with additional 1x2 and 4x4 widget sizes planned around late March.
- An early hands-on from The Verge reports reliability and UX issues, and Nothing says a wider public release will follow later this year once integrations and device compatibility are stable.