The installed widget is one of the windows through which we draw what interests us in the surrounding information field. Of course, I want this connection to be always at hand. In this article we will look at how you can add a widget to the lock screen (Lockscreen, Eng.) In Android.

Although such operations are available only for various modifications of Android version 4, but for others, too, there is a way out.

Preliminary actions

First, we recommend setting up the Lockscreen itself. To do this, in “Settings” you need to move to the “Security” section, and in it open the “Screen lock” function.

If you select “None”, then you will not get a blocking screen and you will not be able to place a widget on it by definition.

We suggest that you choose “svaypom” as the most convenient of the possible unblocking methods - this will not take a lot of time (compared to entering a pin-code) to unlock.

In addition, make sure that your widget is turned on - in “Settings” - “Security and locks” - “Enable widgets”:

Adding

Now, with the display off, swipe left or right to display the “+” icon:

After activating it, your selection kit will open in front of you and you just have to touch one of them to add to the screen.

You can adjust its size: moving the lower part will increase, and moving the upper part will reduce the size of the visible fragment.

Deletion

If you want to remove the widget from the lock screen, you can use one of two options:

• disabling all widgets by unchecking their inclusion in the “Settings” of the “Security and Blocking”;
• touch it on the screen and, while holding it, move it to the right place.

Search for new

A lot of additional widgets integrated into Lockscreen worthy of your attention will be found in the Play Store.

Software screen designer

Stereotypical screens do not have the ability to create individual spirit, do not give much choice in the design and interfere with the manifestation of user creativity.

What to say about the cases when you need to very quickly use the camcorder mode or simply turn on the flashlight.

One of such software applications for constructing a lock screen to fit your requirements - WidgetLocker - will allow you to work very deeply on the kind of locked screen. This is not just a “add” or “remove” widget.

Here you can choose actions with any of the elements due to the appearing menu with a long touch. Adjusting the sliders includes many stylistic options. For example, you can assign an action to the slider.

Here is one of the results:

And this product was obtained using another application - Widget Lock:

Such applications on the Internet you will find more than a dozen. Among them there are many free.

Choose, install. Enjoy the view and get important information without wasting time switching.

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