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 The **Application Widget** serves as a container for third-party widgets provided by other apps installed on the user's device (e.g., Weather, Calendar, Music Player). Total Launcher extracts these standard Android views for user placement in the setup. The **Application Widget** serves as a container for third-party widgets provided by other apps installed on the user's device (e.g., Weather, Calendar, Music Player). Total Launcher extracts these standard Android views for user placement in the setup.
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 +| {{:ui:ui-widget-application_widget.webp?direct&200}} | The image represents a view of Page 6 of 13 of the application widgets on the device used to capture the image. It is shown to provide the reader with sample view the application widget dialog.\\ \\ These application widgets **may not** be on any user's device. A user's device will only show a list of application widgets installed on their device. |
  
-=== Visual Customization ===+Android application developers will encode widget containers for specialized data display setups for their applications. When these are available with the application Total Launcher extracts and displays each in the application widget dialog for the user to select and install on a page, drawer, or window.
  
-While the specific data and internal layout are controlled by the app developer, Total Launcher allows you to customize the "wrapper" or container of the widget. Options for customization will vary with app Android app permissions or the app developer's design, but normally include these basics as shown in the Options dialog below: +Each application widget developer provides for the customization opportunities of their respective widgets. However Total Launcher, in managing an application widget, focuses on the visual presentation of the wrapper container. The dialog for the application widget Option Edit is shown below 
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-|{{:ui:ui-widget-application_widget-option_edit.webp?direct&200}}| \\ \\ \\ • **Rounded Corners** - Apply a radius to the corners for a softer look.\\ \\ • **Opacity** - Adjust the transparency of the widget container.\\ \\ • **Configure widget** - This will show, but only function if the app widget developer has made these available.\\ \\ • **Background** - Set a color or image behind the widget.\\ \\ • **Margins** - Adjust the spacing around the widget. |+|{{:ui:ui-widget-application_widget-option_edit.webp?200}}| 
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 +  ***Rounded corner radius** - The widget's container defaults to a square but can be resized by tap-hold and grab of a container corner. The user can choose to have corners rounded by selecting the desired radius with a range of 0 (square), 300 (circle) to 575 (a rhombus-type, 4 vertices object with curvilinear sides as shown in {{:ui:ui-widget-application_widget-option_edit-rnd_corner_575.webp?linkonly|this image}}. 
 +  ***Opacity** - This allows the user to affect how much transparency is permitted when viewing the underlying contents, in this case the application widget. The launcher option provides a sliding scale from 0 (opaque or container content is totally blocked) to 100 (fully transparent). This option will create the effect on the entire widget container, meaning overall colors will be fully viewed (100) or muted (50) or the content blocked (0). Most likely, meaningful use of this option would be in combination with either the background option of color or dynamic color to provide a tonal quality to the widget container 
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 +  ***Configure widget** - This dialog appears for any **Application Widget**. //However//, it can only be activated by a user //**if**// the application developer has enabled the configuration feature. It **will not** work on every application widget as shown with the notification in the image below. 
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 +  ***Background** - Defines the background of the widget container. **For complete discussion on background see [[...|Background]].** 
 +  ***Margins**: Allows adjustment of the margins surrounding the widget in its container. For complete discussion on setting margins see [[:section:section-margins-page_and_object|Understanding Margins in Total Launcher]]. 
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 +<WRAP round tip> 
 +It is critical to remember that Total Launcher only saves the "Application Widget" placeholder on the page or window, not the internal settings of the 3rd party widget itself. When a backup is restored, the user will be responsible to return to the application widget location, tap it's placeholder to initiate it's re-installation, and then proceed to reapply the application widget's settings. 
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 === Scaling vs. Resizing === === Scaling vs. Resizing ===