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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content.In a short video posted to Twitter, an iOS engineer has shown that it's possible to play "Flappy Bird" directly within a push notification. Neil Sardesai posted a short video to Twitter showing a macOS notification that contained a playable version of the infamous "." Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification — Neil Sardesai (@neilsardesai) "The UserNotificationsUI framework was added to macOS in Big Sur," he said in a follow-up Tweet. "But for some reason there's no Xcode template for Notification Content Extensions on macOS. So you have to make one for iOS and then change all your UI's to NS's." Sardesai's Twitter account plays host to a number of other interesting macOS tricks, too. This includes a video that shows him manipulating hexagonal windows within macOS and one where he plays The Google Chrome Dinosaur Game in the macOS menu bar. — Neil Sardesai (@neilsardesai) The "Flappy Bird" notification game isn't available to the public as of right now. It still serves to show that there are plenty of creative things that developers can do with macOS.Pretty cool. I wish more developers would make use of notification functionality, though it seems like Apple isn’t exactly helping on macOS.&nbsp;Please enable JavaScript to comment&nbsp;An app called Diffusion Bee lets users run the Stable Diffusion machine learning model locally on their Apple Silicon Mac to create AI-generated art. Here's how to get started.Apple has released a complete set of updates spanning iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to ensure users can stay up to date without upgrading to iOS 16 or buying newer supported products.Does the iPhone 14 event really excite you? 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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content.In a short video posted to Twitter, an iOS engineer has shown that it's possible to play "Flappy Bird" directly within a push notification. Neil Sardesai posted a short video to Twitter showing a macOS notification that contained a playable version of the infamous "." Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification — Neil Sardesai (@neilsardesai) "The...

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