The sixth widget is coming to the Google Clock app, which is pre-installed on a good number of Android phones: the timer widget.
Until now, Google Clock had a stopwatch widget -among others- but not a timer. That’s exactly what you’re going to find in its new widget, which carries the timers to your mobile home screenleaving them closer at hand than ever.
New timer widget
If you use the Google Clock app’s stopwatch a lot, you now have the option to keep it handy, as widgets on your home screen. Google is now enabling The sixth widget for the Clock appWith the latter, the application has the following widgets:
- Analogical
- Stacking
- Chronometer
- Digital
- World
- Timer
This is an activation from the server sideso even if you have the latest version of the app (version 7.9.1 as of this writing), that doesn’t guarantee that you have the new widget. The only way to know if that’s the case is to open the system widget picker.
Screenshots by Mishaal Rahman
The new widget provides you with Shortcuts to start timers from the home screenwithout having to open the application first. With a size of 2 x 4 blocks, although dynamic as is usual today, the widget will show us three timers by default: 1 minute, 5 minutes and 10 minutes. In the upper right corner there is a button to create a new custom timer.
However, the widget will display the timers you have set in the appso if you need one for 15 minutes so your lentils don’t burn, you set it up in the Clock app and then you can easily start it from its widget.
The new widget I was waiting for yearsbecause of the main functions of the application (clock, world clock, stopwatch and timer), it was the only one that did not have a widget. This injustice is now, at last, being resolved.
Via | Mishaal Rahman