Widgets by You

Make your own widgets. Start from a blank canvas or pick a template.
Edit widgets in a WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor. The editor supports undo/ redo and copy/ paste letting you iterate over designs quickly.


Features
Widget objects – Date and Time elements with time zone support, text, shapes, images, weather icons etc
Layouts – organise and group objects in absolute, vertical, horizontal, flow layouts
Both color and gradients are supported on objects.

Text
Draw text in a block or on a path. Compose multiple text sources in a single text object. Transform text – uppercase, lowercase, reverse, prefix, suffix, subtext, vertical, replace etc. Support for custom fonts.

Analog clocks
Customize dial and clock hands.

Wallpaper Colors
Colors from current wallpaper can be used giving your widgets the modern look. Colors in a widget will change automatically as the wallpaper changes. Gradients from wallpaper colors can also be created.

Theme
Support for light and dark theme


Expressions
Instead of fixed values, use expressions as parameters. For e.g. make an object change its position or angle based on the time of the day.


Actions
Set actions that fire when a user clicks on the widgets. Location and dimensions of actions on widgets is fully editable.


Share
Share fully editable widgets with the world.


Wallpaper
Set colour and gradient wallpapers from app

App Permissions
Storage - Accessing current wallpaper
Crude Location - Show current location and fetching weather data
Network communication - Fetching weather data and showing ads
Calendar - Show calendar events
Your accounts - for Gmail unread mails count

Note
Widgets by You needs to run in the background to update home screen widgets. Android Oreo and above need a persistent notification for background processing.


Join the beta program for early access to new features and bug fixes
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/in.vasudev.makecustomwidgets

Recent changes:
Expression editor made simpler
Some bug fixes