One of the perks of Cupcake is its Widgets framework. This piece of software now allows users to move custom information to the desktop of their Android device. Now you can have the weather on your home screen, along with a mini music player, a picture of you dog, and anything else your heart desires.
Android Developer’s Blogspot makes some designing tips for widgets (and widget developers). Here are some referenes they point developers to:
- Check out the widget design guidelines article they’ve put together. This article outlines:
- Check the docuentation on Widgets
- Check out Google developer Jeff Sharkey’s blog
In the spirit of promoting widgets, Android-dls.com is hosting an Android developers challenge to come up with the best widget for Android. See details on their site at http://android-dls.com/droid-dev-challenge.html. Contest ends May 31st; sign up thread listed here.
