If you own an Android phone, your home screen doesn’t have to be a boring grid of apps. By adding some widgets, you can see all kinds of information and perform certain actions directly from the home screen.
- Car Widget is a scrollable list of extra-large icons, providing easier access to the apps, contacts and shortcuts you use most while driving.
- Dashclock is a highly customizable widget for showing all kinds of information in one place, including the time, weather, battery life and unread e-mail counts. Users can expand the functionality even more with Dashclock extensions, such as AnyDash.
- Eye in Sky (formerly WeatherEye) is a weather app for Android.
- Google Drive Shortcuts widgets that will let you jump directly into a file or folder on Google Drive.
- Flipboard it shows a headline and image from one story at a time, which you can swap out for another one by hitting the refresh button.
- Google Now shows your latest updates from the service, such as the weather, upcoming flights, calendar appointments and traffic on your commute home.
- Holo Bulb – No more fumbling around for the flashlight app. Just add this 1-by-1 widget to your home screen and you can quickly toggle the LED flash bulb on your phone.
- ESPN ScoreCenter – widget that lets you stay up to date on sports scores, and lets you see your favorite teams’ scores with one tap.
- Screen Timeout Toggle – a simple toggle for keeping your screen from shutting off.
- Simple Calendar Widget -this widget provides a resizeable, slick-looking view of your agenda. It also hooks into GTasks and Astrid to show items from your to-do list.
- Slider Widget gives you volume readings on all kinds of audio — along with a bonus brightness control — and lets you adjust them right from the home screen.
- SoundHound ID Now can identify any song just by listening to it, which comes in handy when you hear a good song on the radio or at a bar.
- ICS Voice Search Shortcut – this 1-by-1 button takes you right into the Google app and begins a voice search.
The 13 Best Android Widgets for 2013 by Jared Newman [via techland.time.com]
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