An aspect that is very appreciated by the users of Android devices is the possibility to personalize their home-screen. Using some widgets applications, the home-screen of an Android device can now look more attractive and can be personalized according with their preferences.  

ClockQ

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This clock widget offers a large variety of options for customization. ClockQ is a simple widget created for the home screen of an Android device. Main features: 13 fonts available, 2×1 and 4×2 widgets, custom color, scale option, transparency, shadow effect, the show date function, 24 h or 12 h option, and tap to open custom application. When the clock is not making the updates anymore, users are recommended to exclude the ClockQ from the task-killer list, and when they are having trouble installing the app, the previous version should be uninstalled first, and again installed from Android Market. 

Battery widget

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An elegant widget showing information about the phone’s battery including alerts and level indicator on the status bar. This widget is showing the level of the battery on the Android’s home screen, and nice animations are used when charging. With a tap on it, more information about the battery can be accessed, including the battery use.  Other features: level indicator on status bar, 3 various colors for each battery level, customizable alerts, and much more. Battery widget is available in various languages, as English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Estonian, Russian and Spanish. 

Fancy widgets

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Here is a collection of beautiful widgets for personalizing the Android home screen. It contains clock widgets, home widgets, weather widgets, forecast widgets and many options for customization. The basic features of Fancy widgets are including: a customizable clock, conditions of current weather and the forecast for following 374 days, Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature support, weather geo-location, customizable tap actions, automatic calculation of sunrise and sunset time, moon phase calendar, various widget styles and sizes, and many customization options. The full version of this app is coming with more exclusive features, as for example multiple location support for weather and clock, alerts in case of severe weather, and much more.

Beautiful widgets

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Another set of interesting widgets for personalizing the Android home screen. It mainly includes clock widget, weather widget, clock and weather widget, date widgets and toggle widgets that are supporting themes and skins. Main features: HD super clock widgets with various sizes and layouts, weather forecast for the following 5 days, weather alerts, 15 nice weather animations, moon phases calendar, various toggle widgets, more than 1000 free themes and skins, the auto-refresh weather option when the phone is unlocked, Beautiful Today widget, temperature displayed in the notification bar, and many other customizable options. This app was selected by Google as being the Android Editor’s choice, and the first paid app that reached 1 million of downloads.

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March 15th, 2012 Ciubotaru Nicoleta