20 best Android widgets
You can have an animating photo frame that pulls out a selection of pics from your phone's gallery, a serious news ticker, constantly updating share prices, annoying social network status updates from people you hardly know - there's a widgetised version of pretty much any type of mobile app you can think of.
What is an Android widget?
Widgets can cause a bit of confusion among newcomers to Android, as they don't open like normal apps from your phone's big list of applications. Instead, widgets are activated by long-pressing on a space on the Home screen, then installed into the nearest available slot.
There are big widgets, wide widgets, little ones that only take up one standard icon slot, and there are also some absolutely terrible spam ones that look a complete mess. So here are our top 20 Android widgets to brighten up your Android phone's workspace.
1. AudioManager
It can be a little confusing delving through Android's numerous menu screens to try to find the particular setting to adjust the ring tone volume - so have it all presented as a nice widget instead.
AudioManager is nice looking, it lets you see what volume everything's at, and pops up adjustment slide bars when pressed. You life will get 0.01 percent easier with it.
2. Quick Battery
A teeny tiny one-by-one size widget, Quick Battery isn't particularly glamorous - but it does a better and prettier job of representing your phone's battery status than anything else. Plus, when installing the widget, you can choose what you want it to link to - so pressing it can open up the power settings page or... Angry Birds . Anything.
3. Extended Controls
The standard Android power strip is a useful widget that lets you quickly turn off Wi-Fi, adjust the screen brightness and toggle GPS, Bluetooth and data syncing, but Extended Controls adds more. Loads more, from one-touch USB tethering to airplane mode and even switching your phone's vibration keyboard settings on or off. Plus it's visually customisable, too.
4. ColorNote Notepad Notes
Everyone loves the classic Post-It note style of thing, and that's what ColorNote brings to your Android Home screen. Tiny post-its, one icon square, each linked to either a text note or a simple to-do list. They look cute and you can change the colours for an extra adrenaline rush.
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You can keep track of these changes with the Moon Phase Pro widget, so you'll always have something to talk to Sir Patrick Moore about, should you happen to bump into him in your local supermarket. It also makes a very nice live wallpaper.
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Digital Blasphemy: Phraxis Moon (2011)
When I was working on "Phraxis" back in 2009 I came to the point (which I do with all of my space projects) where I had to decide if I was going to keep it a "space render" (as seen outside the window of a space ship) or a "planetary render" (as seen from the ground). I had already finished the space scene so I whipped up a quick and dirty scene to see what a view from the ground would look like. I decided to post the space render and moved on with my life.
After switching my workstation over to Bucephalus in June 2011 I was looking through my old hard disk for projects to revisit (mostly old multiscreens that I neglected to render). I found my old "planetary" version of Phraxis and decided to post it in the Pickle Jar.
The reaction was so positive that I decided to spend a few more hours and flesh out the rough scene so it could have its own place in my gallery. Thanks for the feedback everyone! "You can talk physics all you want... My problem with so many moons is that Phraxis has 3 moons... the image is from one of the moons... but there are still 3 in the sky! Blows my mind! lol"
Ahaha, got us there! I lol'd :P
I also wouldn't mind a picklejar version that has the fluorescence shrooms featured prominently, or even a slightly modified version where we have to hunt to find them. You can talk physics all you want... My problem with so many moons is that Phraxis has 3 moons... the image is from one of the moons... but there are still 3 in the sky! Blows my mind! lol I love multi moons & planets. the Sci-Fi books & movies with multiple moons are just awesome.
Love everything about this picture, the way the sunlight is reflecting off the Left side of the moons, Planet, & clouds. I like the columns but maybe too many, cutting out a couple in the center to make it look like a bay leading out to an open ocean if there is something like that on this moon. The plant life is an amazing upgrade! It might be cool to make it into an abstract plant like fluorescence, anen, flora, etc. It is one of your more alien looking plants. Hiding a blue shrume in there would be funny lol
I agree with your decision to make Phraxis a space scene, it really focuses on the planet... but this is an amazing scene too. Thanks for letting us have the best of both worlds.
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