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Originally Posted by hightower
Ok so let me get this straight. Lots of widgets for android but we shouldnt use them much on this state of the art phone cause it will cause lag.
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Your logic is flawed. Too much of anything is a bad idea-- that's a basic reality. That doesn't mean you can't use widgets, and I never said any such thing.
Talk to the widget developers who design them as resource hogs. Not every widget does this, the calendar widget - built in - for example, never shows up on TasKiller - it manages to always be on the screen but never comes up as a listed process. Yet that CNN widget I downloaded was running in the background even though it hadn't been added to the home screen as a widget! You get me? It's not a question of not being able to use widgets, it's a question of overdoing it, and a question of devs making resource hogging widgets. Some devs have the right idea, they're designing their apps and widgets for a phone that's going to have other apps and widgets -- in other words, they make their programs smooth, simple, and lightweight. Other devs, however, seem to be designing their apps as though no other apps or widgets exist -- or theirs is supposed to be the centerpiece of your phone.