Scrollable Widgets for ADW, LauncherPro, Zeam, GO, etc.

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

• 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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Scrollable ContactWidget BETA
by Florian Sundermann
Scroll through a contact group by photo to call, email, sms, navigate, etc. Multiple instances, each with customizable display settings.

AppBrain Market link free


Scrollable News Widget
by Gilles Dodinet
Aggregates and color-codes several RSS feeds with thumbnails.

AppBrain Market link free


Scrollable stocks widget
by Paul Ishenin

AppBrain Market link free


Scrollcut (Free)
by Everybody all the time
Allows you to create a scrollable list of shortcuts to virtually anything (like Anycut, Bettercut, etc). You can jump to specific setting screens (e.g. Wifi, VPN, Mobile AP, Tethering), trigger application intents, or toggle settings with the tap of an icon.

AppBrain Market link free/$$


Small Agenda Widget
by KzumO.com

AppBrain Market link $$


Sonet
by Piusvelte

AppBrain Market link free


VKontakte widget (beta)
by Paul Ishenin

AppBrain Market link free

Facez

Found this just now (added to OP)...

Facez
by Big Widgets
AppBrain Market link

Are we missing any others? Perhaps some still in testing here on XDA?

Vulpix said:

Just to add on, for those into GTD apps, Due Today has a scrollable widget too. Really powerful app.

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Nice find. I added it to the collection (OP).

Not dead I hope. It wasn't easy finding these; most are poorly advertised as "scrollable", if mentioned at all. Though I do fear the collection may already represent every scrollable widget currently available. Definitely let me know if I've missed any.

I can only hope to help spread the idea, perhaps encouraging more developers to think "outside the box" and push these few even further with their own potential. Fortunately, Android development is still in its infancy and growing exponentially. If others find these as useful as I do, I'm sure the list (and our home screens) will be filling out nicely over the coming months.

PS: I spotted some helpful developer resources on the Appwidget Extensions Google Group and there's talk of starting a wiki which I think would be great. I'll add these to the OP.

• 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

Vulpix said:

Colorize is awesome but I want to be able to see both Facebook and Twitter entries in one widget.

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You're not alone, Vulpix. Colorize ended up being the widget that I was looking for and one I've most recommended to others (mostly because its poorly named/advertised). However, I too really wanted to see all my social networks aggregated. I emailed the developer gently requesting exactly that, along with my compliments and a small bug report. Haven't heard back yet but I'm sure they're just as busy as the rest of us. Regardless, I've got Colorize plaster across several of my screens. Still, might be worthwhile if others weighed in.

Right you are! My bad. I've moved it down with the other widgets and added screencaps. Thanks Vulpix.