Overview

S2 Calendar Widget
Androlib Page
Developer's Web Site

I am a sucker for calendar widgets. This one has many features including the ability to create your own skins.

The Widgets

3x3 with white border

3x3 no border

2x2 no background 2x2 white border

2x1 white border custom 2x2 widget

The widgets make a nice presentation of a calendar on the screen. Events are highlighted.

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Settings

The are many settings available. You can choose a background and customize the display in many ways including settings the colors for almost every aspect of the display.

The bar with the OK on it does not scroll so you can save your settings without scrolling through the entire page.

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Using the Widget

Invoke phone calendar App directly

If you set the Widget tap Action to Start Calendar App tapping the widget opens the phone's built-in calendar application.

Popup Menu

Setting the Widget tap Action to Popup menu means that a tap on the widget opens a three tab menu system.

Here are the three screens:

From here you can launch the phone's calendar app, access the phone's data and time settings, refresh the widget, access the widget settings, view settings for this three tab menu, or view the developer info.

The middle tab gives you a calendar view. This is useful if you are using a smaller widget. This view can scroll through the months by swiping up and down on the screen.

The far right tab opens an agenda view of your events. You can load previous events by tapping the bar at the top and as you scroll down through the list more of your future events will be listed. The agenda listing uses the Google calendar color coding. Tapping on an event opens that event in the phone's calendar app.

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Customizing the widget

If you visit the developer's site you will see some custom skins available for download. By looking at the format of those skins you can create your own for the widgets. You place the skin files (still in their zipped state) into a directory called s2calendarwidget. The widget reads the skins from there and will display an available skin if it matches the size of the widget you are skinning. Right now the only skins available are for 2x2 widgets.

Conclusion

The word that comes to mind to describe this widget is neat. It adds the ability to look at older events in agenda view easily and the agenda view it displays is not time limited. If you want to see next month's agenda in the phone's default you have to go to month view, scroll to the next month, and then switch back to agenda view.

I rate this widget excellent.

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