Android 15 might bring back lock screen widgets
Android 15 might bring back lock screen widgets
After iOS 16 reintroduced lock screen widgets, Google is dusting off its old code.
Android 15 might bring back lock screen widgets
After iOS 16 reintroduced lock screen widgets, Google is dusting off its old code.
I liked lock screen widgets, but they also ate battery back in the day. Hopefully with better processing power that's not the case these days.
Here, I hope Google takes a lesson from their wearable platform. Widgets on WearOS are designed to be extremely battery efficient namely by taking away responsibility from the applications. Instead, apps more declaratively hand over display information and leave the real work to the OS, its position much better suited to managing the overall system characteristics.
With that said, widgets on Wear aren't entirely a success story. Many of them don't work properly. But, I think there's still a lesson there.