{"id":229078,"date":"2025-07-01T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229078\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:43:13","slug":"flappy-bird-is-back-on-android-but-you-shouldnt-download-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229078\/","title":{"rendered":"Flappy Bird is back on Android, but you shouldn’t download it"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

Joe Maring \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n

If, like me, you had an Android phone in the 2010s, you almost certainly played Flappy Bird. And all these years later, I still occasionally find myself itching to play a few rounds. Unfortunately, playing the original Flappy Bird in 2025 is all but impossible.<\/p>\n

But thanks to one developer, Flappy Bird is back. Recently, a new developer got the attention of the r\/Android subreddit by announcing<\/a> they had reverse-engineered the original Flappy Bird to run on a 64-bit Java platform, meaning you can download and play Flappy Bird just as you remember on a modern Android phone.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pretty cool project, and I was almost ready to download the app myself. However, after taking a closer look, I decided not to download this new version of Flappy Bird, and you probably shouldn\u2019t either.<\/p>\n

It’s 2025 \u2014 do you still miss Flappy Bird?<\/p>\n

32 votes<\/p>\n

Why you shouldn\u2019t download this new Flappy Bird game<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Joe Maring \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n

There are a couple of red flags with this Flappy Bird app, the first of which is what the developer didn\u2019t do. The GitHub page<\/a> includes the APK file for downloading the game on your phone, but there\u2019s no source code available.<\/p>\n

In other words, you\u2019re being asked to download an APK onto your Android phone without being able to see what\u2019s happening behind the scenes. And that\u2019s a problem. Downloading APK files<\/a> isn\u2019t inherently bad or harmful, but you should only do so from trusted developers, who typically publish the APK source code so you can confirm the file doesn\u2019t contain anything nefarious.<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t happen here. Not only did the developer not publish their source code, but this Flappy Bird project is the first thing they\u2019ve ever published to GitHub, meaning they don\u2019t have any previous vettable projects.<\/p>\n

Another red flag is that multiple people have reported finding a Trojan file (specifically, \u201cTrojan:Script\/Wacatac.B!ml\u201d) in security scans of the APK. The developer says this is \u201clikely\u201d a false positive and that \u201cvirus scans are clear for most users,\u201d but it still adds more concern to an already dubious application. And as if that wasn\u2019t enough, a few hours after I started writing this, the entire project was pulled from GitHub, with the APK file now being hosted on MediaFire<\/a>. That, friends, is not a good look.<\/p>\n

To recap, what we\u2019re dealing with is:<\/p>\n