A complete phone that brings roleplay to life.
A whole phone inside GTA RP, 46 apps, talking to the server in real time.
A complete phone that brings roleplay to life.
A whole phone inside GTA RP, 46 apps, talking to the server in real time.
What it is
Not a menu with buttons: an operating system in React that opens over the game, home screen, control centre, notifications and 46 apps, from the digital bank to Orkut, talking to the server in real time.
Scale
Counted in the phone's code: the system, the apps, the game bridge and the state that ties it all together.
17,791
lines of code
46
apps on the home screen
Every app looks like the original and carries the game city's content: Los Santos streets, server businesses, RP people.
Anatomy
Every detail was designed for the player to recognise in a second: the island at the top, the status bar, the alert over the open app, the control centre that slides down with a gesture, and the feel of opening and closing a real app.
Status bar
The bar every player expects at the top, time, signal, Wi-Fi and battery, in every app.
Home screen
Icons across two pages that slide with a finger or drag with the mouse, built for touch and for the game screen.
Gestures
Apps grow open and shrink back on the motion curve of mobile systems; the bottom bar takes you home.
Dynamic Island
At the top, like a modern phone: calls, music and alerts show up there without pulling the player out of what they're doing.
Control centre
Data, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, airplane mode, torch, do not disturb, camera and timer, with brightness and volume sliders on a glass layer.
Notifications
A message, a payment, a ride accepted: the banner slides over any open app and leaves on its own.
Dock
Phone, SMS, WhatsApp and the bank pinned at the bottom, one tap from any page.
Real time
On an RP server, half of life happens without the player asking: the call that rings, the payment that lands, the ride accepted. That's why the bridge to the game runs both ways, the app asks when it needs to, and the server pushes the alert the moment something happens.
Opening a chat, sending a payment, ordering food: the app calls the server and waits for the answer, 65 operations, each with a 10-second limit.
AppfetchBackendNUI callbackclient.luaServerWhen something happens in the city, the alert reaches the right phone on its own, 15 real-time events, heard by any open app.
ServeremitNetclient.luaSendNUIMessageApp
Phonenow
Incoming call
The neighbourhood garage is calling
WhatsAppnow
Lucas
Be there in 5, I'm in Vinewood
Nubank1 min
Payment received
Ana sent you money
Uber2 min
Driver on the way
Carlos · black Kuruma · 3 min
Tinder4 min
It's a Match!
You and Bia liked each other
Mercado Livre6 min
Your listing sold
The buyer is on the way
iFood9 min
Out for delivery
Burger Shot · arriving in 12 min
Weazel News12 min
Breaking
Chase on the Great Ocean Highway
The app asks and the server tells: requests and events on the same phone, without refreshing the screen.
Every call to the server has a 10-second limit: if the game is slow, the app moves on instead of hanging.
Three checks detect whether the phone is inside FiveM or in a regular browser, the same code serves both.
The active call lives in its own state: answer it in the middle of the feed and keep browsing.
Brazil + Los Santos
The phone speaks its players' language: Orkut's scrapbook, MSN's “nudge”, truco from the corner bar, side by side with the bank, the newspaper and the underworld of the game's city.
BrazilOrkut
Profile, scraps, friends and communities, the network that defined a generation, back inside RP.
BrazilMSN
Online contacts, chats and the button that shook the window, nostalgia turned into talk between characters.
BrazilTruco
The card game from the corner bar, to pass the time between one scene and the next.
BrazilColheita Feliz
Plant, buy seeds, look after the animals and fight for the city ranking.
CityYellow Pages
The server's business directory: who sells, who fixes, who serves.
Los SantosWeazel News
Los Santos news and breaking alerts right on the phone, the channel that only exists in the GTA universe.
Los SantosFleeca Bank
Balance and recent transactions at the bank every player knows, next to a complete digital bank.
RoleplayTor
Anonymous browsing and untraceable listings: in RP, the underworld needs an address too.
The technologies
The phone is a lightweight screen that runs inside the game and talks to it all the time. Pick a piece to see what it does here and which file it is in.
9technologies, in 4 layers
Screen
State
Game
Build
Inside the phone
The best screens of the phone running: the system, messaging, money, social, Brazilian retro, the city, media and games, each one exactly as the player sees it.
32screens on the phone
01 of 03 · Home screen with app grid and dock
Reserved app
It exists, it's ready and it already has a spot on the home screen, behind a lock. It's part of an idea that hasn't been revealed yet. From here, all you can see are the clues.
Move the flashlight over the file.
Prototype
The same code that runs in the game, open to anyone: open the apps, read the chats, order a ride, scroll the feed. With fictional data, nothing is saved, nothing is collected.
Prototype ready
The prototype is a demo: the profiles, chats and balances were invented for it.
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