Behind the Scenes: Building Android Widgets for WePlan

The Challenge

As a developer, I love taking on new challenges, and this time, it was bringing Android home screen widgets to WePlan. Users wanted quicker access to their schedules, and widgets were the perfect solution. But implementing them? That was a journey.

The Development Process

I dove into Kotlin, crafting a widget that displays daily agendas at a glance. Since widgets have unique constraints (limited updates, remote data loading), I relied on:

AI coding assistants to help debug and optimize performance.
Manual code reviews to ensure no unnecessary files bloated the app.
Weeks of testing to refine responsiveness and battery efficiency.

The challenge is the reload time. I will try to figure it out next time.

What’s New in WePlan?

Home Screen Widgets – View your schedule without opening the app.

Have questions about the dev process? Ask in the comments!

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Launch my first mobile app on the Google Play store 3rd year student at Yoobee college with Bachelor's Degree in Software Development. I have an interest in tackling a wide range of programming challenges. I enjoy working on some project with React, JavaScript, and Typescript, and I've also learned C++ for the backend projects. During my learning period, I took some of the Cloud courses like AWS Cloud fundamental and Microsoft Azure AI to get an idea for these two cloud platforms. During my semester break, I created my first mobile application by using the Flutter framework which makes me understand Dart language. The main reason the app is born was because I wanted to solve my problem and create an easy UX/UI "NOTEPAD" compare to other mobile app around the store. My work mainly focus on Object-oriented programming (OOP) technique because I truly understand OOP programming code easy to maintain and organized. During my practice, I always maintain DRY (Don't repeat yourself) method in my work. I am also enjoy applied Agile methodology because I believe that divided project into smaller part able to get customer feedback immediately and make changes when needed. Done two official certification, which is AWS Cloud fundamental and Microsoft Azure Ai fundamental