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[SPIKE] Investigate widget potentialities
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We intermittently get Play Store and other requests for updated Android widgets, and @schoenbaechler needs to understand the technical constraints on Android for widget design. What sorts of things are possible?

Also, how might we go about updating the current 2 widgets, which are superannuated at this point and look very janky?

iOS is investigating similar types of widgets, but we're not sure what's possible for us: T257370

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Charlotte renamed this task from [Spike] to [SPIKE] Investigate widget potentialities.Aug 12 2020, 3:45 PM
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cc @schoenbaechler
Here has an app widget overview from Android Developers: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/overview

Things I would like to bring up:

  • If the widget requires too frequent API calls, for example, suggested edits of "translation" type, especially for non-English users, it may drain the battery so bad.
  • The user can resize the widget, so please consider making layouts that are resizable.
  • Create a preview image of the widgets, which we currently don't have.
  • The theme options might be a separate thing from the app, but this is not really required.

Thx for the overview, @cooltey — I like the resizing/responsive design part!