Article Contents 1 KWGT Kustom Widget Maker 2 Overdrop 3 Battery Widget Reborn 4 Data Counter Widget 5 Musicolet 6 Calendar Widget 7 SeriesGuide 8 Quotes Widget 9 Google News 10 CPU Monitor 11 Sectograph.

One of the biggest was undoubtedly homescreen widgets, a fundamental part of the Android experience from day one.

While widgets may not be as popular on the platform these days, it sure seems theyll be poised for a comeback given Apples newest mobile OS.

With that in mind, here are 11 of our favorite widgets for the platform (that actually look and work well).

Any app on your device that has widgets with it will appear in the list tap and hold on a widget to place it.

Some art assets require a premium upgrade, but many are available for free, and you can put together your own widgets for digital and analog clocks, live maps, battery and memory meters, music players, simple text messages, and much more.

Overdrop is one of the best weather apps period, and its widgets are informative, elegantly designed, and clear.

Some of the widgets require a premium upgrade, but there are plenty that you can play around with for free as well.

Enter Battery Widget Reborn, which shows battery life as a fully customizable circular graph and percentage.

If you prefer, you can set up a larger bar chart widget showing your phones diminishing battery life over time.

Data Counter Widget gives you that, split up into cellular and Wi-Fi readings, and with separate counts for upload and download totals.

Text size, color, and background can all be modified, and tapping on the widget gives you more details (including a breakdown of which of your apps are using up the most data).

Note though that Musicolet only plays local files stored on your Android device, and doesnt work with streaming services.

With the right combination of text, color accents and widget size, you can put together something that fits in perfectly with the rest of your home screen.

Pay to support the app and you get some extra widget customizations too.

Itll pluck out quotes from well-known figures from its database, or you can add your own into the mix, and the widget can be customized with different fonts and colors too.

For fresh text, you can set Quotes Widget to update automatically, or tap it to refresh.

You can tap through on any story to see full coverage of it, or you can just let the top headlines pass before your eyes as you get on with other business on your Android device.

CPU Monitor can also set up a persistent notification to display this data too, if needed.

It visualizes your calendar as a 24-hour clock face, so you can see at-a-glance what youre supposed to be doing right now and what youve got coming up next its the perfect example of how widgets can be just as useful as fully fledged apps sometimes.

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