All You Need to Know About the Customization of Android’S Lock Screen
If you also feel that locking the screen of your phone is important but yet it's troubling sometimes because unlocking it is bit time consuming, then you need to customize your Android phone's lock screen. There are widgets using those you can actually interact with your phone even without unlocking it. In fact to master your Android phone, you must learn how to use it even through the locked screen. Android phones running on version 4.2 have inbuilt widgets, whereas Android phones with older versions need to use third party lock screen widgets.
The advantages of Screen Lock Widgets in Android phones
Lock Screen Widgets help you to avail quick and convenient access to the apps and information on your Android phones. Android 4.2 phones support different types of widgets that can be used even through a lock screen, like the 'Clock,' 'Google Now,' 'Goggle Keep,' 'Gmail,' etc. There are different widgets meant for different purposes like 'Google Now' is for information viewing, 'Google Keep' is for note keeping, and 'Gmail' widget for mail viewing. All these widgets can be accessed without unlocking the phone with the unlock code.
These widgets are more than a mere platform to have quick information. In fact these widgets allow one to interact with individual apps and take benefit of the functionality of those apps. That is why, nowadays, majority of Android and Google Apps come along with screen is lock widgets.
How to add a widget to the screen lock of an Android phone?
'Lock' is the default widget in the lock screen
You need to swipe or drag the clock widget from left to right in order to have access to new widgets
A 'Plus' icon will come; you need to tab on it in order to bring up the list of widgets available.
Select the widget you want and that will get added
In Android 4.2 run phones there are six lock and each screen accommodates one widget
New widgets can be added by repeating the aforementioned steps
Some of the most used lock screen widgets
Dash Clock, which is a dashboard lock for the lock screen
Simple Dialer Widget that brings the Contact list on the screen lock
Simple RSS Widget, an alternative to Google's Reader that gives a quick access to RSS feeds
Extended Controls that give access to the controls even when the phone is locked
Weather, an easy way to get the weather forecasts
Disabling the Screen Lock Widgets
Don't think that if you have incorporated these widgets in your phone once then you have to keep them even if you are not using these. If you are not finding any as such advantages from these widgets, then you can disable them entirely. This has to be done through Goggle device administration policies as there's no option included in the Settings screen. You need to install the Lock screen Policy and toggle the policy to disable the lock-screen widgets.
These widgets concept has indeed revolutionized the Android experience as many users are saying this considering the convenience factor offered by these widgets.
The advantages of Screen Lock Widgets in Android phones
Lock Screen Widgets help you to avail quick and convenient access to the apps and information on your Android phones. Android 4.2 phones support different types of widgets that can be used even through a lock screen, like the 'Clock,' 'Google Now,' 'Goggle Keep,' 'Gmail,' etc. There are different widgets meant for different purposes like 'Google Now' is for information viewing, 'Google Keep' is for note keeping, and 'Gmail' widget for mail viewing. All these widgets can be accessed without unlocking the phone with the unlock code.
These widgets are more than a mere platform to have quick information. In fact these widgets allow one to interact with individual apps and take benefit of the functionality of those apps. That is why, nowadays, majority of Android and Google Apps come along with screen is lock widgets.
How to add a widget to the screen lock of an Android phone?
'Lock' is the default widget in the lock screen
You need to swipe or drag the clock widget from left to right in order to have access to new widgets
A 'Plus' icon will come; you need to tab on it in order to bring up the list of widgets available.
Select the widget you want and that will get added
In Android 4.2 run phones there are six lock and each screen accommodates one widget
New widgets can be added by repeating the aforementioned steps
Some of the most used lock screen widgets
Dash Clock, which is a dashboard lock for the lock screen
Simple Dialer Widget that brings the Contact list on the screen lock
Simple RSS Widget, an alternative to Google's Reader that gives a quick access to RSS feeds
Extended Controls that give access to the controls even when the phone is locked
Weather, an easy way to get the weather forecasts
Disabling the Screen Lock Widgets
Don't think that if you have incorporated these widgets in your phone once then you have to keep them even if you are not using these. If you are not finding any as such advantages from these widgets, then you can disable them entirely. This has to be done through Goggle device administration policies as there's no option included in the Settings screen. You need to install the Lock screen Policy and toggle the policy to disable the lock-screen widgets.
These widgets concept has indeed revolutionized the Android experience as many users are saying this considering the convenience factor offered by these widgets.
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