Floating Widget was a tools app developed by Stephen Milone. It was removed from Google Play Sep 16, 2023 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Floating Widget had been downloaded 26 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Floating Widget was rated 3.73 out of 5 stars, based on 170 ratings.
App Information
Floating Widget cost $0.99 to download. The APK download size was 2.13 MB. The last available version was 7.0. The last update was on October 2, 2018.
Technical Requirements
Floating Widget required Android 4.1+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play April 2012.
Description
Widgets are no longer only for your homescreen!
Floating Widget lets you interact with any homescreen widget while you’re using any app on your device. Ever wish you could: - Control your local or streaming music without leaving your current app? - Have a sports scoreboard up while using your e-book reader? - View a data usage widget in real time while using the app you’re testing? - Have a clock on the screen while playing a full screen game? - View CPU usage while you’re interacting with an app? - Have the a traffic indicator widget always up while commuting?
With Floating Widget, you can do all of these and more! Check the screenshots and embedded video for setup and examples.
Features include: -Choose from any widget you have installed designed for Android’s home screen -Position the widget anywhere on your screen -Resize the widget to as big or small as you’d like -Save up to 5 different floating widget profiles -Have multiple widgets floating at once -Create custom shortcuts to quickly launch any of the 5 profiles -Control widget transparency -Notification quick actions -Tasker plugin support
Permissions explained: - this app can appear on top of other apps : the magic permission that makes the whole thing possible
- run foreground service : needed for the service to continue running and not abruptly close because Android thinks its actually in the background
- have network access & view network connections : crash reporting, this is a very non-standard app, so when something breaks I want to be able to fix it
- control vibration : for touch feedback
Recent changes: Massive update for Android Oreo and Pie compatibility! Let me know if you have any issues
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★★★★★
Wow great application! I've been looking for an application like this for months. I'm using this application to "float" my music widget over my navigation app. Works perfectly. Thanks!
★★★★★
Very useful, Tasker support a little buggy I'm currently using this with Elixir, Tasker, and AOKP to provide a "quick launch" widget triggered by an additional navigation button. I find that the "Hide" action in the Tasker plug-in doesn't work and I have to use "Stop" instead; this needs fixing asap. Would also like to see the option (per-profile maybe) to auto-hide widgets when the app changes or when a tap is detected outside the widget area. An option to dim the background would also be welcome. Finally it would be nice to be able to hide the notification (AOKP can do this, so it's not a major issue for me, but others would probably like it). Still, great app with lots of potential uses!
★★★★★
Great app This is what I was looking for..... To be able to show my notes on top of the home screen to serve as reminders..
★★☆☆☆
Few apps supported Great idea but only a miniscule amount of apps are supported... I can't even use it for my native music player app... And while I don't use poweramp or Google play music I am at a lose when I would like to use it for my native music player...
★★☆☆☆
I cannot position and invisible widget on the home screen unless it's floating but I don't want it floating just to be on the home screen. I can't get rid of the ugly green color outline on top of the widget and I can't make the ugly widget completely invisible to hide on my home screen.
Technologies used by Floating Widget
Floating Widget is requesting 8 permissions and is using 7 libraries.
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