smartphone like widget on home screen

[chegewara]

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Feature description

Hi, is there any chance to add smartphone/android like custom widgets on home screen?
What i mean is not just an icon to open app, but widget docked on screen to perform some actions or to display some info, like weather or something.

Use cases

With 1 button press perform action without opening app, ie:

• enable/disable wifi
• turn on/off light
• turn on/off display
• restart or deep/light sleep

I see a lot more single button press usage cases.

Thanks

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[chegewara]

Hi team,
I dont want to open new topic, so i will try to ask another question here:

• is it possible to start/open/run brookesia app from code?

Thanks

[Lzw655]

Hi @chegewara,

Your idea is great! Although this library currently doesn't support adding custom widgets on the home screen, I think it should be possible to make an app icon act as a button that doesn't open a full interface when clicked. Give me some time to try it out.

As for how to start/stop an app via code, you can refer to the following implementation:

    ...
    // Get app ID when installing
    int id = phone->installApp(app_simple_conf);
    ...
    // Send event to start/stop app
    ESP_Brookesia_CoreAppEventData_t app_data = {
      .id = id,
      .type = ESP_BROOKESIA_CORE_APP_EVENT_TYPE_START, // or ESP_BROOKESIA_CORE_APP_EVENT_TYPE_STOP
    };
    phone->sendAppEvent(&app_data);

[chegewara]

Thank you very much
I will try for sure, because i may have some use cases for it

[chegewara]

Hi,
maybe its not most elegant way to do it, but for now it works:

bool OneShotWidget::run(void)
{
    ESP_BROOKESIA_LOGD("Run");
    // trigger some non-blocking action here
    return false; // return false to not create lvgl screen
}

Thanks

[Lzw655]

Hi, maybe its not most elegant way to do it, but for now it works:

bool OneShotWidget::run(void)
{
    ESP_BROOKESIA_LOGD("Run");
    // trigger some non-blocking action here
    return false; // return false to not create lvgl screen
}

Thanks

You're right! I also want to try this method. This might be the only feasible method for now. I will try to add this feature in the next version.

[chegewara]

Hi @Lzw655
i like brookesia very much and i am playing with it a lot right now. Building app still requires a lot of lvgl codding, but makes my life a lot easier.
I have few ideas how to make it "more friendly" to end user, but i dont know if anything like that is even possible:

• is it possible to make status icon "clickable"
• drag and drop icons with long press, to change order on screen
• make clock clickable, so we could add keyboard and let user to set time (or at least some option to get handle to clock)

Big thank you for that component

[Lzw655]

Hi @chegewara,

Thank you very much for your support of this library.

In principle, I believe the new features you mentioned can be implemented. However, as you said, "Building an app still requires a lot of LVGL coding." This GUI design approach makes it difficult to be compatible with devices of different resolutions. Therefore, I would like to prioritize implementing the XML-like design approach I mentioned earlier. Of course, I will also gradually implement the features you brought up.