glypclocks — atomic standard time

01 origin

where it came from

this used to be a single toy inside glypnik — five faces, sharing one slot in a sandbox of unrelated gadgets.

it kept growing. one face turned into a habit, the habit turned into a list, the list got longer than its drawer. eventually clocks needed their own picker, their own preferences, their own foreground service. so it left.

glypniktoy 06 → 5 faces → 16 faces → glypclocksstandalone

the second project to leave the nest, after thinking of you.

02 faces

what's in the picker

sixteen faces ship in this build, each one runs its own animations at its
own pace. tap any tile to play.

01plate
02falling
03slots
04glitch
05scanline
06floaty
07pendulum
08compass plate
09hypnosis
10moiré
11ripple
12sonar
13cymatics
14gravity well
15numbers
16spirits

03 controls

how you talk to it

long-press flashes a 2-second DD/MM date overlay — same pixel layout as the plate face.
picker pick a face, flip per-face toggles (24h, sound, layout). that's the whole app.
aod registered as an aod-capable glyph toy in the manifest. faces decide their own behaviour.

04 spec

under the hood

surface 489 leds arranged in a diamond on a 25×25 lattice. brightness only, 0..255 per led, no colour.
render path each face produces a Frame489 from a ClockTime. the service ticks at the face's declared fps (some are static, some run at 30 hz).
sdk built against the GlyphMatrixSDK.aar as a foreground service of type specialUse.
storage preferences live locally in shared prefs. no accounts, no sync, no network.
stack kotlin · jetpack compose · material 3. min sdk 28.

05 scan

verify.

third-party scan reports for the current build — peace of mind before you sideload.

tip · drop the apk into either yourself · always a good habit ✦

06 acknowledge

quick checks.

three boxes. the download unlocks when all are ticked.

i understand glypclocks is for the nothing phone (3) only — the glyph matrix is hardware-specific and the apk won't do anything useful on other devices. i'm okay installing an apk from outside the play store and know how to enable unknown sources. i won't repost or mirror this build without asking — it changes often and old copies cause confusion.

07 download

take it home.

●v1.0 nothing phone (3) android 9+

tick the boxes above to unlock.

download glypclocks ↓

08 source

▸ peek under the hood

source available.
not open source.

the full source lives on github — every face, every animation, the matrix renderer, the picker. read it, learn from it, file an issue if something looks off.

but it isn't open-source licensed. no fork-and-republish, no derivative apps, no lifting code into your own project. the source is up so people can see how things work, not as a free-for-all.

view on github →

read-only · no derivative works · github.com/bleelblep/glyphclocks

09 notes

what to know

nothing phone (3) only. the glyph matrix is exclusive to the (3); other nothing phones use different glyph hardware entirely.
not on the play store. distributed as a sideloaded apk.
no remote backend. the only thing it phones home about is the time.