Power Widgets 17+

Crashes / Bugs

App has such huge potential, as others have said it seems to crash a lot! Bugs such as foreground changing background colour are intermittent. Colour gradient slider does not show when selecting edit, creating a widget and then not being able to customise again/shows old settings. If all the crashes and bugs were fixed this would be a simply amazing 5* app!

crashes

when i duplicate a widget and go to edit it, the app crashes.

also after i have made one widget and go to make another- when i edit it, it wont let me edit the info of it and it kicks me out of the editing bit.

works for like one widget, anything else it crashes or kicks you out the options.

Huge promise but still broken

01.04 update – Just wanted to update once more to address one of the issues I cited in my previous edit regarding the ‘invisible’ wallpaper. After tinkering some more with the app I found the tutorials on YouTube which explained how to create the effect. Not *quite* the perfect solution because wallpapers HAVE to be aligned in the top left corner so if the wallpaper doesn’t look nice like that, it’s all you’ve got, but even so I imagine this will work fine for the majority of images people want to use. Anyway, extra star, only fair. Still looking forward to future updates! There’s a lot of potential.

28.03 update – I’ve just updated the app and while it has become more responsive, unfortunately it’s still very fiddly trying to achieve certain results. I’m trying to create a clock widget and use my current wallpaper as a background, inspired from a template example, but resizing and moving the image doesn’t work properly. Still looking forward to seeing it working though! It’s looking good so far. The possibilities of the customisable widgets seems excellent, but unfortunately the app is completely broken and nothing works. Pressing ‘add’ to add a layer to a widget does nothing most of the time and when it does work, ‘edit’ doesn’t. Can’t remove the layer and start again because that won’t work either. Can’t wait for some future usability and stability updates though!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for updating your review! There’s another way to create a wallpaper-matched background that doesn’t need to be top left aligned—Go into wiggle mode on your HomeScreen and swipe past the last page of apps to see a blank page. Screenshot that blank page, then use the screenshot when picking your wallpaper in Power Widgets. I will add that to the instructions in the next update.

v1.1 was just released and should provide more stability. Please let me know if you are still running into these issues. If you would like to send an email with more details you can contact me at carson.katri@buildpassed.com