Organise your widgets

Organise your widgets

We know how useful widgets are, so let’s look at how we can install, remove and organise them in a way that suits us…

The modern world might be full of handy, life-enhancing conveniences, but keeping up with your daily demands can still be incredibly taxing. So let’s say you want to create a home screen dedicated to your work.

One of the most important things here is having your colleagues’ contact details at your fingertips, so get them on your home screen by pressing and holding on an area of blank space in your home screen, click on Widgets, and cycle down to People or Contacts. Once you have added the right size and shape widget, click on it to add it to your screen, and then select ‘Co-Workers’ from the next screen.

With contacts covered, you probably need quick access to your meeting schedule. Assuming you’ve already added your events and to-do lists to your Android Calendar, simply call up the Widgets panel in the usual way, and select Calendar. Choose a size that fits the screen, and press it to add. With just two minutes of tweaks, you can dedicate your phone to an important part of your life.

Settings | Organising your widgets

1: The home screen
You can create a canvas by deleting existing widgets. Press and hold on the widgets in question, and drag them to the bottom of the screen to delete.

2: Add your first widget
Press and hold to call up the ‘Add To Home’ panel, and then click Widget. To add co-workers select People, pick a style, then add your co-workers.

3: Moving widgets
By pressing and holding your finger on the widget, you can grab hold of it and then drag it around the screen into an area that suits you best.

Your business home screen

Add widgets

You can quickly add further widgets by clicking the plus sign here, though you have to create some space first if you want to make some changes.

Co-workers contacts
You can quickly gain access to your colleagues’ email addresses, phone numbers and postage addresses with one click.

Calendar
Our events for the day are spelt out in the calendar widget. One click here will bring up the entire calendar app to add and check further events Stock ticker When you create your stock ticker widget, you can pick which company’s performance you want to check up on.

4: Switching screens
Simply pull them to either the far left or far right of the screen, and hold them there. The screen will then slide across allowing you to place them.

5: Quick-adding widgets
It’s possible to add widgets from the Android menu at the bottom of the screen. Click on the plus sign to trigger the ‘Add to Home’ launcher, then select what you wish.

6: Mixing and matching

You may find that it’s slightly tricky to place all your widgets on a single screen. You may want to use this space to add a few shortcuts or folder locations.