Popup Widget

ChYK the dev

About this app

Demo & Tutorial: https://youtu.be/3IjMdw1TgYI

You can create a shortcut (1x1 widget) to widgets with this application. The widget will appear with a cool animation by tapping the shortcut.
Now this supports:
- creating shortcut to one or multiple widgets
- 20 or more internal background skins
- plenty options for the popping up animation and behavior.

Main benefits of using popup widget:

1. Save memory and battery used by the widgets on your launcher
2. Save the space of home screen
3. Better scroll performance of launcher
4. Create your own UI

Ratings and reviews

Excellent. Great at what it does. Some room for improvement: Icon selection is awful if you have more than a few icon packs. There's no way to broadly search all icons; only one icon pack at a time. Also, widget placement is unintuitive - big numbers on an xy axis, with no visual indication of the movement when changing values. Same for entrance animation. But those are minor complaints in the grand scheme of it's usefulness.

With this app, I create a Pop up Launchy widget on my side panel, and can access favorite shortcuts with easy speed from any screen using two quick taps. Used with Shorcut Creator, I can customize discreet, tiny, transparent messaging windows that pop up at the screens bottom edge and vanish with a flick. I can also set up a home screen that displays only my favorite wallpapers without app shortcuts dotting them. Popup widget makes my user experience way better ; it's Perm on my standard list .

This paired with Square Home are how widgets should be used. Icon with short tap opens a widget to see messages/control music, long press to open the app. Cannot wait to find other uses, but just being able to do that makes my phone more useable than 99% of the phones I've ever owned.

What's new

- supports German, Italian and Spanish
- added a new popup animation: Circular reveal
- fixed some bugs