We’re really pleased to present a major update to our Week Number widget for Android. It’s better than ever now, giving you a whole collection of date widgets, including: date, week number, countdown (days until) and count-up (days since). It’s also bigger than ever! Until recently, it was 64×64 “display pixels”, and now it is 74×74 display pixels. That results in a bigger, clearer display which fills its home screen square much better than before.
Here’s an example of a home screen with all four FiftyTwo widgets. The colours of each widget are fully customisable of course. The screenshot was taken on 10th September, as you can see on the date widget. There is a countdown widget which is counting down days until Christmas 2010, and a count-up widget which is counting the days since I was born (12 December 1971). On the right, is the special FiftyTwo widget menu which appears when you select “FiftyTwo” from the normal Android widget menu. This gives you the further choice of all four types of widget that FiftyTwo provides.
When you tap on a FiftyTwo widget, the overview screen appears (below left). This tells you what kind of widget you just tapped, and what it does. There are buttons to set the options and to customise the display settings. There’s a new feature which allows you to copy the display settings from this widget to all the others, which is ideal if you have several FiftyTwo widgets on your home screen and like to keep their appearance fresh and new, especially if you change your wallpaper often.
If you launch FiftyTwo directly from the applications tray, the overview screen (below left) looks a little different. There’s a scrolling list of all the different kinds of widgets that FiftyTwo supports. There’s also an Options screen for all widgets, which lets you tell FiftyTwo if your phone is a little slow or low on memory. If you check that box, the widgets will be drawn on the home screen in a different way that works more reliably on some older phones.
We hope you enjoy using FiftyTwo on your Android phone, and look forward to your feedback.
