Material Photo Widget — Open Source Media Player App

Material Photo Widget is as simple as it can be: a home screen widget to display your favorite photos. It is a free, no-ads, open source alternative for people who want to customize their home screen.

• Create a slideshow from your favorite photos
• Create shortcuts to open other apps
• Put your schedule on your home screen
• Your membership passes one tap away

It's easy and simple to add a new widget with your photos.

FEATURES

• Choose photos individually or sync with device folders
• Set an interval or schedule to create a slideshow and switch photos automatically
• Your widgets are shortcuts — customize tap actions for each of your widgets, viewing your photos in full screen, opening an app or URL
• Customizable borders, opacity, saturation, brightness, offset and padding to create your perfect home screen
• 6 formats to choose from: Shapes, Square, Tall, Wide, Original and Fill
• 28 different shapes

HOW TO USE

Open the app and tap "Create a new widget" directly from the home screen. Add your photos, choose the appearance and behaviors and tap "Add to home screen". That's it!

You can also long press on your home screen, open the widget menu and search for "Material Photo Widget", then configure your new widget the same way.

MY WIDGET DOES NOT APPEAR

The app consumes very little power and runs on the background when needed (to switch photos, for example). Because it's rarely being actively used, it can be stopped by Android as the system prioritizes the most used apps when trying to optimize the battery duration.

If you are facing this problem, remove any battery or memory restrictions from the app. You can also search for your device brand on https://dontkillmyapp.com and follow their instructions to improve the behavior of apps that mostly run on the background.

Some phones can prevent apps from starting themselves after restarting the device, making the widget can appear broken. If that's happening, you must grant permission for the app to "auto start" through your settings or security app.

PERMISSIONS

• RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED — This permission is needed to restore widgets after a device restart. Some device manufacturers prevent this from happening, and you must manually allow it through the "auto-start" setting on your phone.
• SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM (optional) — This is an optional permission that is needed if you would like to use shorter intervals to switch photos, ensuring that they follow the selected schedule exactly.
• WAKE_LOCK & FOREGROUND_SERVICE — These permissions are used by Work Manager; a standard Android library to manage background work, in this case, used to ensure that the widget keeps functioning as expected.

The app does not require any storage permissions. Photos and directories are selected using the native pickers and stored within the app to keep data private and secure. There's no tracking or network communication.

Material Photo Widget is an open-source project, find the code and submit feedback at https://github.com/fibelatti/photo-widget

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