Battery Widget

tjin256

About this app

Simple widget showing the battery level with customizable font size and colours (so you can use larger font sizes if you have difficulty reading the battery level indicator on your phone). Originally designed for my mother so she can see her battery level in a bigger font.

This app doesn't appear in the Applications list since it's just a widget. After installing it, you can add it to your home screen by long-pressing in an empty area on your home screen, which should bring up a menu which includes an option called 'Widgets'. Select 'Widgets', then look for 'Battery Widget', and long-drag the widget into the empty space on your home screen to add it there.

The font size can be changed in the widget settings, e.g. when adding it to the screen for the first time. The default widget size is 1x1, but you can resize the widget by long-pressing on it then dragging the resize handles.

Due to Android power-saving restrictions, it will only update once every 30 minutes by default. You can make it update more often in the configuration settings, though this takes extra power and may drain your battery. You can also click on the widget to update it to show the current battery level. Unfortunately it has to update based on a timer, it can't monitor the battery level constantly like the built-in Android battery widget since the built-in Android battery widget uses special system permissions which 3rd-party apps can't use.

Ratings and reviews

Like the creators mother my phone aslo had a microscopic batter percentage widget at the top on my phone which I could not read as my eyesight is not as good as it was when I was younger! It is so good and customisable and I have installed it on my phone now and loving it! Now I do not need to grab the magnifying glass just to see the percentage remaining! Hats off to you!!

The best battery monitor I found. It simply gives the battery charge left as a percentage and uses very little memory. No adds, data collection, optimisations, or problems.

Perfect, just what I wanted. To anyone reading this, note that this is ONLY a widget, not an app, so to see the widget you will need to long press on the home screen and then select it.

What’s new

Fix the top of the configuration page overlapping under the Android system bar because of Android 35's default edge-to-edge rendering