Widgets

[aha999]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Baldphone currently doesn't support widgets anywhere. People may want to use various widgets from 3rd party apps.

Describe the solution you'd like Enable changing some home-screen elements area into an empty space dedicated for widgets, which would also be added/resized in settings to reduce a chance for mistakes by the user target group. For example, where the clock currently is, we could by customizability remove the clock and replace it with widget space there and add 3rd party clock/weather which opens the 3rd party weather app by clicking. If some users need even less buttons, the widget area could be extendable into more parts of the home screen, or other screens (right, left side). Maybe even have an option to turn on a dedicated widget screen (like notes screen can be).

Describe alternatives you've considered Some ideas:

• Option to replace a Baldphone clock/time rectangle, with a place for widget, like a custom Weather/time widget
• Option to extend widget area simply by pulling the edges, like cropping a picture, or by other method
• Option to have widget area where favourites are on the right screen
• Option to enable a widget-dedicated screen, which would be reserved for widgets only
• Option to maybe enable putting widgets on the "favourites" screen, where you can favourite contacts or apps, and there could you also add widgets from the settings

Additional context An older guy whose phone i recently installed baldphone to, later asked in other words "but where is his weather widget", as he would click on his time/weather widget from a 3rd party, which updates data on the widget, to check the weather inside the app by clicking widget. I think that some sort of widget system would be required

[UriahShaulMandel]

That is such a good idea!! Lol I hope it's not that difficult to implement.

[n3phtys]

Should be doable by implementing an AppWidgetHost inside one of the tiles.

An additional use case for this: Apps like Google Maps allow you to have a 'Navigate to' Widget to a custom location. Having a 'bring me home' button on your launch screen is a great thing.