'Today in History' Widget for Android
There are many sources for events from all over the world in many different languages. Choose all you are interested in.
Current sources include:
- Wikipedia in many languages (English, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and many more)
- BBC: "On This Day"
- The New York Times: "On This Day"
- DW-World: "Today in History"
- History.com: "This Day in History"
Three versions of the widget exist: A smaller (4x1) and a bigger one (4x2) and a stacked version for Android versions greater than 2. Choose the one which fits your needs better. Keep in mind: The smaller one can (obviously) display less text than the big one.
The widget is also tested on Android Honeycomb Tablets (Android 3.x) and on ICS (Android 4.x), so it should run flawlessly on such devices as well.
The widget downloads the events for the next days and stores them on your device, so there is no need for permanent internet access.
If you find any bugs, have any problems or if you have additional sources you want to be included in the widget, please write me a mail (android@dbruhn.de) and do not comment on the Market, since I can not contact you here!
If you like the widget, please share, rate and comment it properly.
Thanks to all translators:
- Italian: Aldo Tarquilio
Does not even open. I wonder how do guys like it. I am gonna uninstall it
"Today in history" turned into "Yesterday in History".......... Then it turned into "Last Friday in History"...........Why, you ask? Because it's been 2 days since it updated and it still shows last Friday's events....... Which *kinda* defeats the purpose of calling it "Today in History"....
This is very VERY bad.
Needs a bit better support for Scandinavian languages. But my home screen is way more interesting now.
This widget is sick!
Great app always taking a minute on the crapper to check what happened today in yesteryear :p
Love getting to dig into new topics and moments in history every day. Widget could use a little makeup, it is not the prettiest... but no reason not to give it a go! Highly recommend!
I really like this widget!! Love learning new things and reading about things I'd forgotten. But does it have to be so... for lack of a better word, blah. Can you make this app so you can design or edit the widget, so you don't have solid black blocks on your screen?? Then I could give it 5 stars. :)
Literally this program is fantastic for easily searching interesting historic events. Always works flawlessly on my basic Android phone. PLEASE DEVELOPER, ALLOW THE OPTION OF SHARING A SPECIFIC HISTORIC EVENT, NOT JUST YOUR FANTASTIC SOFTWARE X
I am very impressed. Thank you!
Love how the events are links to articles
I had given up on those until I found this one
Helps me to give those little glimpses into history for my students.
Great way to have a Lil extra morning read.
7 items on Ronald Regan getting shot is 6 too many
It is great to have this widget on my home screen, and sharing an event or finding out more is a simple task.
Finally, something simple that has no strings attached. I love history and everyone tries to lock you down with their data fishing so I'm glad to have access to this with no strings attached.
Its an amazing app, and I recommend it to anyone. But if there could be a Google now style for the widget and a transparent widget that would be great.
Would like to have a transparent background option
Must have for history fans!!!
I absolutely love learning the things that happened from day to day in history! I've never experienced any bugs in this app! LOVE the widget selection! Thank you for this!
Like the app, shame it cannot be moved to internal storage on my phone as would have given 5 stars.
Trendy events, only a few real meaningful historical events...
I've been looking for something like this.
Yup this ones the best
, this is an app I really recomend
"050813...tryout...thanks..."
Great working app. It does what it says.
Some of my widgets are crushing when i started to install this
Would like to see a function to browse future dates. Excellent functionality and sourcing for today though. 5 stars for at least an "upcoming week" view.
Really? NOTHING happened on this day for almost 1,200 years? And how is the marriage is of some useless schmuck celebrity 5 years ago that contributes nothing to the Earth "history" but Titus conquering Jerusalem during the Second Roman Jewish War isn't?
Almost everything posted seems to be negative events in history. Not all. But most.
Very neat.
It really excellent which their is a selection option also for related language and site thank u sir and best app for widget
Well executed
Great app always taking a minute on the crapper to check what happened today in yesteryear :p
Good widget, very informative.
Get history widget.
The events posted are not very informative.
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Literally this program is fantastic for easily searching interesting historic events. Always works flawlessly on my basic Android phone. PLEASE DEVELOPER, ALLOW THE OPTION OF SHARING A SPECIFIC HISTORIC EVENT, NOT JUST YOUR FANTASTIC SOFTWARE X