The Strix is an Android app developed by G5 Entertainment (Riddargatan 18, Stockholm 114 51, Sweden). Others apps created by G5 Entertainment are: Brave Tribe, Preppers, Build-a-lot 3, Cursed Ship, Hidden City, Letter Mystery, The Secret Society®, Supermarket Management 2.

The Strix first became available on 07 Dec 2012. The Strix has been awarded with the "Top Developer" badge. It is estimated that The Strix has been downloaded between 100000 and 500000 times from the Play Store.

The Strix 1.1 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.