Gallery Widget

Milan Vyšata

About this app

- Make your home screen phone even more beautiful and more interesting with your photos, images and videos

- A choice of four types of widgets on the home screen to show the 3,4, 5 and 6 or one larger preview last stored pictures and videos (preview only, not live video!!!) with date display options, after clicking to open them in the default application

- Display random image from selected folders in custom interval

- Basic version allows you to open only the first preview

- In the new version, you can have different settings for each widget, so you can create holiday photo albums directly on your home screen

- Display selected images or videos

- Added shadow option with custom transparency, size and color

Ratings and reviews

Like the other reviewer said: does not display videos on the widget. I tried twice. I even transferred a video over to its own folder and set up a Gallery Widget to view only that folder. Just in case it had trouble with mixed media. It was a 3 minute video I shot with my phone's camera. I have a flagship phone, it's only a year old, stock launcher, no memory card, stellar internet. There's absolutely nothing I am doing that would interfere with the process of this app or make my case unique.

Note to anyone: Sadly it does not play any video, Even if it says Photo & "Video". (Read the desc, It might clear things up.). If anyones concerned, it's actually hard to show a video format in widget form. There are apps to do GIFs though. Anyway, UI wise it's hard for a beginner, to read and digest but slowly easy in a long time. Settings icon shows up on widget, nothing to do with that. And somehow quality of photo is reduced? Overall, there is potential but not much.

Great app. Yes it's basic and is only useful if you want to add widget pictures without excessive options, but IMO it has 2 big advantages over other photo widget apps I looked at in the play store, namely its small memory footprint, and the only permission being the reading of your storage, which is obviously required for the app to function. Because this app doesn't have any invasive permissions or advertising and does exactly what it needs to with no frills, I was happy to pay the upgrade.