Physical Design: Guidelines, Different kinds of widgets

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There are some guidelines to follow in terms of widgets when it comes to the different types of it. Hence, in this article, we are going to discuss the physical design in detail.

 Design guidelines for app Widgets

There are some guidelines to follow in terms of widgets when it comes to the different types of it. Hence, in this article, we are going to discuss the physical design in detail.

 Design guidelines for app Widgets

Some launcher icons and shortcuts can be created for the home screen on Android. It describes some widgets standard which shows the graphics tips’ creativity and effort and some useful tricks too. If you want to read about developing widgets, you can also go through the section of the developer’s guide.

 Standard Widgets Design

Traditionally, there are three main components: the box, frame, and graphical controls with other elements. The buttons take labels and the images can be controlled and supported by the app widgets. You can also view or read the layout section available in the developer’s Guide.

 Determine the Size of your Widget

The minimum amount of space that should be required and it set by default. Users adding to their home screen will occupy more space than the minimum and essential one. You can add columns are rows which are also called cells that occupy the available size including width or height.

 Resizable Design

It can be resized horizontally or vertically in Android 3.1 and now. You can also specify the minimum size. The exceeding size will be illegible or futile.

 Margin Part Adding 

Android 4.0 automatically Adele small and standard margin on your home screen. It is easy to use and helps to balance your home screen. As a user, we can recommend that you do not add some extra stuff of margin that would be outside of your app. The single layout you can use as a custom margin which is available for the earlier version but there are no extra margins for the Android 4.0 version.

 Background Graphics and Layout

Solid background rectangles or round rectangle shapes are available in the layout patterns. You can use Adobe Photoshop for editing purposes. Even in the newer platform, you can see a transparent background too. If we have taken the example of the layout there is a liner layout including an orientation pattern which is available in a vertical and horizontal manner. 

There is a button for images including width and height. So when users add to their home screen they can use this flexible layout in which they have added the widgets to their home screen.

 To Choose Widget Templates

When you want to choose or update widgets then it is a better idea to get the first look by seeing the various template designs. There are packages that are available for the user that can be downloadable too. Hence you can choose a different style color font with some graphical useful content to make your entire widget for your home screen.

 Conclusion

Subsequently, we have discussed Physical Design in detail. When it comes to the different types of widgets then we should be supposed to follow some guidelines as such that we have discussed in this article. Keep reading, Happy learning.

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