Alternatives to Minimalistic Text Widget?

[Jonathan Berger]

I've designed a number of attractive and useful widgets using the integration between Minimalistic Text Widget and Tasker.  I love MTW to pieces, but sadly, its developer has put it in what he's calling "legacy status," meaning he's not updating it any more.  As of the recent upgrade to Android 13 it's still working fine, but at this point any OS upgrade could kill it completely, so I'm thinking about the future.  Are there any alternative products that allow me to create a homescreen widget that displays data fed to it from Tasker tasks?

[Jay M]

KLWP

KWGT

Lightning Launcher

On Sat, 27 Aug 2022, 22:45 Jonathan Berger, <jonber...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've designed a number of attractive and useful widgets using the integration between Minimalistic Text Widget and Tasker.  I love MTW to pieces, but sadly, its developer has put it in what he's calling "legacy status," meaning he's not updating it any more.  As of the recent upgrade to Android 13 it's still working fine, but at this point any OS upgrade could kill it completely, so I'm thinking about the future.  Are there any alternative products that allow me to create a homescreen widget that displays data fed to it from Tasker tasks?

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[Jonathan Berger]

Thanks.  Lightning looks interesting, but at this point I'm so heavily customized with Nova that it would be painful to switch.  I've looked at KWGT, and wow, to say it has a steep learning curve would be a massive understatement.  More like a learning El Capitan Dawn Wall.  (California reference, but you get the idea.)  My impression is that most people use it with pre-fab widget packs.  It's undoubtedly possible to design a KWGT widget that would display the value of a variable set by a Tasker task and fire up another Tasker task in response to being tapped, but the road from installing the app to having that work looks like a long and winding one.  I'll bite the bullet and do it if MTW breaks and that's the only alternative, but is it?  Does anyone know about anything that has approximately the same functionality as MTW but is still being maintained?

[Jay M]

I have nova and its just a basic launcher i dont see how it can be heavily customized :/ Anyways i wouldnt say KWGT has a steep learning curve its pretty simple and so is passing data from Tasker to it once installed it appears as a plugin in Tasker you give it 2 pieces of info then you have that data available inside KWGT. No KWGT isnt the only alternative but it is the best and its still being updated and has a lot of users and IMO is the only app worth mentioning. Widget packs can be used to figure out how something is done when creating your own from scratch but there fully optional.

Lightning has an insane learning curve and is no longer being developed, but its still working and is the most powerful and customizable launcher available, you can pin objects, rotate them, resize them, animate them deatch them from the grid and freely position them, have different layouts based on screen orientation, create your own widgets, you can even implement your own launcher features if you know how to script.

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[Duckredbeard]

You think I would have a hard time migrating?  These are ALL Tasker variables...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gFfGM8S2Fdeay7uB8

[Morgan Young]

Oh my.  I love that.   to bad I found out about minimal text widget after it went to legacy status.

Morgan

[sayling]

Congratulations on 7649 days!

[Duckredbeard]

I just realized my SOT (screen on time) is wrong.  I had reverted to a previous backup and Tasker did the math like it was supposed to.  I rarely go over 300.  No I'm not on my phone that much, I have my screen stay on whenever I am driving and using maps (and plugged in).  I drive a lot.

Many (maybye most) of those values are coming from a Raspberry Pi and multiple other Android devices.  This isn't just trivial data being displayed, I refer to this screen quite often and many of those "tiles" are shortcuts to Tasker tasks.  The "tablet" ones open Tasker scenes that give me options to check kids' tablet batteries, active apps, notices, shutdowns.  The "garage" ones open a scene to control the garage doors, and yes those tiles are updated anytime the door state changes including date/time stamp.  Tapping anything that contains a temperature sends an SSH to the raspberry pi to report current conditions in that room or fridge, though that is already happening every 10 minutes.  The three different "alarm" tiles do what is shown or launches the alarm app.  The "last toast" is very handy for those times some app shows a toast and it goes away before I can read it. Tapping that tile copies the last toast text to my clipboard so I can save, share, or read it again in another way.

Once I find a cool feature of Tasker/Raspberry Pi, I tend to go overboard with it.