Smartspacer is a supercharged version of Google's At a Glance widget.
Google's At a Glance widget can already do a lot of things like show you timer and stopwatch info, flashlight reminders, and more, but it has limited support for showing info from other apps. It can show the status from ridesharing apps like Uber, doorbell alerts from Nest, safety check countdowns from Personal Safety, fitness tracking info from Adidas Running and Strava ... but not much else.
Smartspacer, though, has 20 different plugins to pull info from a variety of apps and OS settings, including:
Aftership
Amazon
BBC Weather
Google Finance
Google Keep
Google Maps
Google Wallet
Health Connect
Pokemon Go
Samsung Health
Uber
Yahoo Sports
YouTube
There are also plugins for showing the battery (of the device, connected devices, and remote devices), notifications, sunrise/sunset info, data usage, and energy monitor.
And it HAS A PLUGIN FOR TASKER! That means you can basically program Smartspacer to show ANYTHING.
Using Smartspacer, you can do things like show your loyalty cards or Keep lists when you're at certain locations, show more advanced flight tracking info, better delivery alerts, and so much more.
Best part: It doesn't require root and works on both Pixel & non-Pixel devices. On Pixel, Smartspacer even keeps all original At a Glance functionality, so you lose nothing by switching to it.
My friend Kieron Quinn has been working on Smartspacer for nearly a year and a half now and is getting ready to release it. Right now, it's in a preview state and is only available to a handful of testers. If you're interested, leave a reply to this post!
(Developers: Kieron says he's making an SDK for launcher integration. Documentation and the SDK for plugin development will also be released soon.)
@MishaalRahman this looks awesome. I was disappointed that the A14 update to the At a Glance widget was real downgrade in turns of appearance. I'd love to give this a try
Okay, originally the Discord group for this app wasn't going to be open, but since there's SO much interest in trying it out, here it is: https://discord.gg/vqXGWzxj.
(Please don't overwhelm the dev, he's just one dude!)
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