It is still uncertain whether or not Apple will provide 3rd party developers the necessary APIs and clearance to create custom widgets for the new Notification Center pulldown, but already developers are finding their own ways of making such things possible. According to one develop on Twitter by the name of @WillFour20, the process isn’t all that difficult. We’re really hoping Apple gives developers the ability to create their own widgets as we’ve got...
Each and every time Apple wows me (as they did with the OS 4.0 preview yesterday), they come right back around and punch me in the face. What am I talking about? A rather nifty iPad app that mimicked the style of the OS X Dashboard was rejected for the bullshit reasoning that it “contradicted the iPad’s user experience”. I know there are some real “bright” people out there but come on Apple. If someone knowingly downloads an app, I’m...
Mark your calendars BlackBerry users and mobile internet aficionados, February 15th is the day in which the Bolt browser gets a big upgrade to version 1.7. The biggest boasting point of the new version is widget support. Using said feature will be easily accessible via a separate widget menu within the browser as to make using the widgets easy and intuitive. In addition to the new widget support, Bolt also supports popular web technologies (not Flash) such as Ajax and...
Android 2.1 (Flan) may or may not be available (depends on your level of Android hackery) yet but that doesn’t mean you can’t at least have one of the shiny new features 2.1 brings. For 2.1 Google has thrown in a new weather/news widget. It isn’t anything groundbreaking but nonetheless is a nice addition to the stock allotment of widgets. The weather widget is rather simple and shows the city, current conditions, and temperature while the news widget is...
After my colorful rant voicing my displeasure for HTC’s move to C&D LevelupStudios and their “Beautiful Widgets” which mimicked the Sense UI widgets, I was mad, sad, and frustrated. But a few obscure, hidden gems on AndroLib highlighted by one eagle-eyed Phandroid commenter digs up some dirt that could very well make me eat my words. The three test applications in the picture above show nothing more than a “test” application put forth by...
