What are your favorite Android widgets?

GoodEnough

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Apr 24, 2011
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Not shortcuts. Widgets.
I just installed the Weather widget, and like the temp. always showing.
 

sweenish

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What weather widget? There are a bajillion of them.

I use Weather Timeline's widget's, for example. It's the only widget I use. I would use a calendar one, but meh. In a perfect world, I'd have enough time to learn KLWP and I'd probably end up using a few more.
 

Red Storm

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I stopped using widgets after a while. I like to keep my home screen as clean as possible, so that means I have my 4 most important apps in the dock, and the rest of the screen is empty, which allows my background to actually be visible. I rely on gesture shortcuts to get to other commonly needed tasks. Each of the 4 apps in my dock can be swiped on to do something else or open another app. And then I can utilize double tap, swipe up, and two finger swipe up/down to do even more stuff.

Nova Launcher is the best. :thumbsup:

Regarding weather widgets, Google Now made them all obsolete IMHO.
 

poofyhairguy

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Nov 20, 2005
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I stopped using widgets after a while. I like to keep my home screen as clean as possible, so that means I have my 4 most important apps in the dock, and the rest of the screen is empty, which allows my background to actually be visible. I rely on gesture shortcuts to get to other commonly needed tasks. Each of the 4 apps in my dock can be swiped on to do something else or open another app. And then I can utilize double tap, swipe up, and two finger swipe up/down to do even more stuff.

Nova Launcher is the best. :thumbsup:

Regarding weather widgets, Google Now made them all obsolete IMHO.

I agree 100%, except I like a clock widget on my homescreen.
 

WelshBloke

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Google+ user location widget. Fantastic for checking real time location of family and friends.