Is androidwidget useful?

1. Small size: generally, it is relatively small, so it is very convenient to embed the terminal and run quickly.

2. Various forms: Widget can be presented in various forms, such as slides, videos, maps, news and games. ...

3. Great function: Although small, the service is thoughtful. They can report news for you, help you buy things, list your favorite bands, and the videos you watched recently. Besides, he is a careful housekeeper. You don't have to go to Flickr or the weather forecast website in person. Widget will take the initiative to bring you information.

4. Beautiful appearance: it can be called jade-faced dragon, which is convincing with color. You can turn it into anything you want if you like. Its appearance is tantamount to a "desktop bomb", and the narrow and monotonous IE window will be replaced by a broader and gorgeous desktop space.

5. Personalization: Widget is more like a Rubik's Cube belonging to each of us, allowing users to aggregate. You can combine your online world with multiple widgets according to your own preferences. Through the Widget, users can scramble all the contents in the "web" and rearrange and combine their own Internet according to what users want to see. For example, the personal space built by widgets can include sports news from Sina, forums and stock information updated at any time from authoritative financial websites. These information, which used to require users to visit several websites at the same time, have now become a part of users' personal space by widgets and can coexist directly on the same page. In the post-Web2.0 era, the traditional way of surfing the Internet is divided, and the popularity of diverse, cool and more personalized Widget may lead a new trend.

6. Simple production: It is not complicated to make Widget parts. You only need to be familiar with the knowledge of image processing, HTML/XML and java, and you can make beautiful parts according to the tutorial of the development site. One of the main points of the popularity of Widget is the open production, and UGC application brings explosive growth.

So, what is android widget?

In the preview version of Android 1.5 SDK, we saw a series of changes in functions and APIs, including soft keyboard, desktop Widget and Live Folder API, video recording API, Bluetooth function upgrade and so on. Google's recent analysis of these new features has made Android developer blogs extremely active. Last week, Jeff Sharkey gave a brief introduction to Android desktop Widget and AppWidget framework, and described the operating mechanism of desktop Widget with the word "daily" as an example. Yesterday, he posted an example of a weather forecast gadget on his personal blog. In fact, it is already a really practical scheme. It updates the weather forecast four times a day, and we can add several widgets to pay attention to the weather conditions in many cities. In addition, after clicking the widget, we can also see the detailed forecast for the next few days.

This reminds me of several Android desktop Widgets that may be popular in an article "Android widgets, Unlimited Potential" by Nick Gray of HTC Source last week.

Android itself has its own clock, music player, photo frame and Google search four Widget programs, but this does not prevent everyone from developing their own more beautiful and powerful versions. In addition, Weibo, RSS feeds, stock market information, weather forecast and other gadgets may also be popular.

Weibo Widget:Twidroid is by far the best Twitter client on Android, and everyone obviously expects it to launch a version supporting desktop widgets. Besides, there should be gadgets like rice, whispers and tweets, which are very popular in China. For a Weibo gadget, there are two essential aspects, one is to publish news, and the other is to browse.

RSS Subscription Gadgets: Although Weibo (especially Twitter) has completely overshadowed RSS Subscriptions, and more and more people use Twitter to track site updates, RSS Subscriptions have not completely withdrawn from the market. Functions such as classified subscriptions still need RSS help, and webmasters may not post all updates on Twitter.

Stock market information Widget: For stock speculators, there is probably nothing more ingenious than putting the real-time stock prices of several concerned stocks on the mobile phone desktop.

Weather forecast gadget: For people who stay in the office or at home all day, it is very useful to have a gadget to let me know the current weather and the weather in the past two days 1, which will probably greatly reduce my chances of running downstairs to get my umbrella. It would be even cooler if you could add UI effects like TouchFLO 3D.

These are just some widgets I'm thinking of now. Thanks to the infinite possibilities brought by the Widget API provided by Android 1.5, our mobile desktop will undoubtedly be more interesting.

For domestic G 1 users, if you want to experience the desktop Widget of Android 1.5, you can look at Haykuro's blog. He is trying to make Android 1.5 ROM available for G 1. In addition, T-Mobile has planned to push the update of 1.5 to T-Mobile G 1 users in Germany in May, so even if there is no official G 1 Simplified Chinese 1.5 ROM, I believe Haykuro's G 1/kloc-.

Widget applications have been widely used in Android phones. Because of its convenience and compactness, it has been widely used, such as weather, Weibo, information, songs, time and so on.

About android Wpp widget:

An application widget is a tiny application view that can be embedded in other applications (such as the desktop) and receive regular updates. You can publish widgets through an application widget provider. An application component that can accommodate other application widgets is called an AppWidget host. The following screenshot shows a music application widget.