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What do you want from your widgets?

0 replies · 1,263 views · Started 01 February 2009

Right, I've been looking at making a widget for my n95, but I'm stuck for inspiration.

As far as I've been able to tell there's not that much you can do with them on the n95 - tell you battery %, network strength, RAM info & "disk" space info. Launch programs. That's about it. Once you hit the next version of widgets (i.e. 5800, N97) there's stacks of interaction with the OS.

And they can get stuff off the internet. And I think that's where their strength lies. And I want to write a widget. And I'm a bit stumped about what do do.

I've knocked up a prototype thing that does a bit of everything - shows free RAM, network strength, battery charge. Reads the RSS headlines off the AAS front page, launches programs.

It's kinda funky (but too alpha to post yet - maybe later) but I'm not sure what else it needs. I've got the following ideas: pop3 email. google search but I wan't to do something more interesting - maybe portable bookmarks - online & s60.

Dunno if anybody's got an widget requests - feel free to share - what are you looking for in a widget...

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