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Comment by themacguffinman

8 years ago

Android has supported home screen widgets and activity shortcuts since forever. Live tiles are hardly better, they're just a very Metro-y approach to the same feature.

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ascagnel_  8 years ago

There used to be a homescreen replacement app for Android called SlideScreen [0] (homepage is active, but the app is abandoned) that would try to give you as much information at-a-glance as possible.

[0] http://slidescreenhome.com