You may have noticed a slowdown in the amount of updates being released by Sweeter Home. This is because the developer has been hard at work getting Preview 2 ready. I’m not sure of the improvments we can expect yet, but at a guess I’d say improved memory handling, a differentiation between static and dynamic layers for better performance, bug fixes, scrolling improvements and more. Whatever the case it’s coming soon!
Some exciting news in the (unending) lead up to Android 1.5 is talk surrounding widgets. Jeff Sharkley discusses widgets here, but the most interesting part for Sweeter Home is quoted below:
One last cool thing to mention is that the AppWidget framework is abstracted in both directions, meaning alternative home screens can also contain widgets. Your widgets can be inserted into any home screen that supports the AppWidget framework.
It hasn’t been confirmed that more widgets will be included in Sweeter Home any time soon, but the high volume of widget requests, discussion of widget support in cupcake and the Sweeter Home developer’s recent comment “cupcake is just around the corner and it will change the game,” leads me to think that the most exicting releases in Sweeter Home are just around the corner.
