Finally, your third option is perhaps the most interesting — an app called Quidgets will actually allow you to access your favorite
home screen widgets directly from the Quick Settings panel.
An app called Snap Swipe Drawer will allow you to add
any home screen widget directly to your notification tray in a few simple taps — and with Android's wide array of available widgets, it's an even better experience than Apple's restrictive implementation.
Not exact matches
Still, you definitely can't miss the Motoblur influence; the default Motoblur skin invites you to add your social network accounts (Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace) to its various
widgets so that it can feed status and gallery updates
directly to the
home screen.
The ebooks
widget allows you to shuffle your books in 3D
directly from the
home screen.
There will also be
home screen widgets for applications such as Gmail, Calendar, and Browser will now be re-sizable while users will also now be able to transfer pictures
directly from their digital cameras to the XOOM via a single touch by connecting
directly to the XOOM through USB.
Google can't do anything about the iPhone
home button being tied to Siri, but it's shipping the Assistant app with an associated
home screen widget, so you can quickly jump
directly to it with a swipe from your
home or lock
screen.
The Pixel
home screen is relatively unchanged, but long - pressing an icon shows those aforementioned notifications and gives you an option to
directly access that app's
widgets.
The My Magazine feature, Samsung's Flipboard - like news reader that debuted on the Note 3, is accessible
directly to the left of the
home screen, but the main display is a very familiar assortment of folders, app shortcuts, and a weather
widget.
The general layout is all the same, with the app icons and
widgets on the
home screens directly, and there are some new settings we see in the «Settings» sections.