No option for widgets with lollipop on LS?

[fleeper]

I no longer have the option in settings for widgets on my lockscreen under settings. Is there a way to get a weather widget on the LS without the setting?

Thanks.

 

[B. Diddy]

Try Weather notification, which displays weather conditions as a notification, not a widget.

 

[xocomaox]

There is currently no way of doing this. They replaced the ability to have a nice, customizable widget to control or display a multitude of things with a simple clock that displays the current time, date, and next upcoming alarm. Really a poor effort on the developers part when rewriting the lock screen for Lollipop.

 

[LeoRex]

For all we know, they came to the conclusion that lockscreen widgets were a security risk (which, in fairness, they are) and they made the choice to save us from ourselves. Who knows?

Though, they don't force us all to use PINs or pattern locks (or even use a lockscreen for that matter)....

It'd be nice to have a concrete reason though.

 

[fleeper]

Great. Is there any way to customize my clock on the LS at least?

 

[xamadeix]

Great. Is there any way to customize my clock on the LS at least?

Nope.

 

[derdjango]

Why not try an alternative lockscreen?

 

[LeoRex]

Why not try an alternative lockscreen?

There are a few out there... Microsoft has one.. NEXT I think its called. AC Display....

 

[mxrider821]

Great. Is there any way to customize my clock on the LS at least?

Don't listen to a lot of the people on forums. Some don't know what they are talking about... You can download other lock screens and do whatever you possibly want.

The one I use is WidgetLocker... https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...d=com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker&token=WNDNeZJN

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[xocomaox]

For all we know, they came to the conclusion that lockscreen widgets were a security risk (which, in fairness, they are) and they made the choice to save us from ourselves. Who knows?

Though, they don't force us all to use PINs or pattern locks (or even use a lockscreen for that matter)....

It'd be nice to have a concrete reason though.

I would like one, too. It's more of a downgrade than anything. I don't believe having lockscreen notifications should affect the ability to use a widget. And if it did, they should have made it so you can toggle lockscreen notifications off in favor of widget use. This is Android after all!

 

[LeoRex]

I would like one, too. It's more of a downgrade than anything. I don't believe having lockscreen notifications should affect the ability to use a widget

They don't.... but the lack of widgets and LS notifs are not the same. I can only assume that allowing widgets in the lockscreen is a security risk... you are giving user apps a tunnel around the LS mechanism..... keys to the castle, so to speak. I'm sure that notifications were probably planned independently of locking down the lock screen (heh). Those notifications are coming directly from the system, so they are trusted.

I'm all for opting in/out of stuff like that... but perhaps there was some deep fundamental issue that precluded LS widgets... Muck like how they locked down SD cards in KK while they figured out a better method (that came in LP).

 

[xocomaox]

They don't.... but the lack of widgets and LS notifs are not the same. I can only assume that allowing widgets in the lockscreen is a security risk... you are giving user apps a tunnel around the LS mechanism..... keys to the castle, so to speak. I'm sure that notifications were probably planned independently of locking down the lock screen (heh). Those notifications are coming directly from the system, so they are trusted.

I'm all for opting in/out of stuff like that... but perhaps there was some deep fundamental issue that precluded LS widgets... Muck like how they locked down SD cards in KK while they figured out a better method (that came in LP).

This would make sense if we were forced to lock down the phone with a PIN, but we aren't. So the argument of widgets being removed from the lockscreen because of a security risk is out the window.