Scrolling widgets make great use of the limited space on our mobile displays. Now, more launchers and even Google's Android OS 3.0 seem to be swiping widgets up and down. Searching the forum and market, it was remarkably difficult to find a scrollable widget with the features I wanted. So I figured it might help to start a collection with those I've we've found. ツ
Compatible Home Screen Launchers
Note: While some of these may not provide exactly the size we'd want, most of these launchers let you manually adjust the size to your liking. Combined with Font Size or LCD Density Changer, you can really fit a lot into a tiny space (both $$ and require root).
I'll include links, barcodes, screen caps, and some helpful details. I'd ask others to do the same where possible. Hopefully, we'll see more development around this.
Developers Resources
Android Agenda Widget
by Everybody all the time
Highly customizable widget with themes. Displays multiple calendars and task lists. Multiple instances, each with its own content and settings.
AppBrain Market link free/$$
AtomaRSS Scrollable NewsWidget
by Nodes
AppBrain Market link free
Call Log Widget - Scrollable
by Fred Tarasevicius
AppBrain Market link $$
Call Log Widget Free
by Fred Tarasevicius
AppBrain Market link free
Colorize Widget
by SnowBEE
Provides separate themed widgets for displaying your agenda, bookmarks, contacts, message, facebook, and twitter feeds. Include basic thumbnail support making Facebook feeds quite usable.
AppBrain Market link free
Due Today
by Lakeridge Software
AppBrain Market link free / $$
EMail Widget
by invalidobject.com
AppBrain Market link $$
Facez
by Big Widgets
AppBrain Market link free
Flick Note
by Teragadgets
AppBrain Market link free/$$
Folder Organizer lite
by Fabio Collini
AppBrain Market link free/$$
Launch-X
by YuviDroid
AppBrain Market link free/$$
people widget
by mjdev
Scroll through a contact group by photo to call, email, sms, navigate, etc. Multiple instances for different groups. Smallest size is 2x2; doesn't scale smaller unfortunately.
AppBrain Market link free
Photo Contacts Widget
by NextWorldMobile
AppBrain Market link free
Plume (Touiteur)
by LevelUp Studio
Excellent Twitter client including a widget that can enable a scrollable display of its feed.
AppBrain Market link free/$$
Pure Calendar widget (agenda)
by Francois DESLANDES
AppBrain Market link $$
Pure Grid calendar widget
by Francois DESLANDES
AppBrain Market link $$
Pure Messenging Widget
by Francois DESLANDES
Perhaps the only scrollable feed widget that consolidates content from Facebook, Twitter, email, sms, and call logs. Displays contact photos but no thumbnails unfortunately.
AppBrain Market link $$
Pure News Widget BETA
by Francois DESLANDES
AppBrain Market link free (beta)
Compatible Home Screen Launchers
- ADW Launcher free/$$ link
- Crazy Home free/$$ link
- dxTop free/$$ link
- GO Launcher free link
- HeLauncher free link
- Home++ free link
- LauncherPro free/$$ link
- Open Home free/$$ link
Zeam Launcher free link[support discontinued]
Note: While some of these may not provide exactly the size we'd want, most of these launchers let you manually adjust the size to your liking. Combined with Font Size or LCD Density Changer, you can really fit a lot into a tiny space (both $$ and require root).
I'll include links, barcodes, screen caps, and some helpful details. I'd ask others to do the same where possible. Hopefully, we'll see more development around this.
Developers Resources
- Appwidget Extensions Google Group - discussion forum including several of these lead developers
- Sample Widget Code - some sample code by Francois DESLANDES
- Sample Widget Code - another sample by Florian Sundermann
- How to Make Scrollable Widgets - a nice overview walkthru by Stephen
Android Agenda Widget
by Everybody all the time
Highly customizable widget with themes. Displays multiple calendars and task lists. Multiple instances, each with its own content and settings.
AppBrain Market link free/$$
AtomaRSS Scrollable NewsWidget
by Nodes
AppBrain Market link free
Call Log Widget - Scrollable
by Fred Tarasevicius
AppBrain Market link $$
Call Log Widget Free
by Fred Tarasevicius
AppBrain Market link free
Colorize Widget
by SnowBEE
Provides separate themed widgets for displaying your agenda, bookmarks, contacts, message, facebook, and twitter feeds. Include basic thumbnail support making Facebook feeds quite usable.
AppBrain Market link free
Due Today
by Lakeridge Software
AppBrain Market link free / $$
EMail Widget
by invalidobject.com
AppBrain Market link $$
Facez
by Big Widgets
AppBrain Market link free
Flick Note
by Teragadgets
AppBrain Market link free/$$
Folder Organizer lite
by Fabio Collini
AppBrain Market link free/$$
Launch-X
by YuviDroid
AppBrain Market link free/$$
people widget
by mjdev
Scroll through a contact group by photo to call, email, sms, navigate, etc. Multiple instances for different groups. Smallest size is 2x2; doesn't scale smaller unfortunately.
AppBrain Market link free
Photo Contacts Widget
by NextWorldMobile
AppBrain Market link free
Plume (Touiteur)
by LevelUp Studio
Excellent Twitter client including a widget that can enable a scrollable display of its feed.
AppBrain Market link free/$$
Pure Calendar widget (agenda)
by Francois DESLANDES
AppBrain Market link $$
Pure Grid calendar widget
by Francois DESLANDES
AppBrain Market link $$
Pure Messenging Widget
by Francois DESLANDES
Perhaps the only scrollable feed widget that consolidates content from Facebook, Twitter, email, sms, and call logs. Displays contact photos but no thumbnails unfortunately.
AppBrain Market link $$
Pure News Widget BETA
by Francois DESLANDES
AppBrain Market link free (beta)
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