floccusaddon / floccusaddon/floccus
Android list and icon widget
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Description
### Describe the feature you'd like to request
Other than archiving important web pages, I often use bookmarks as a portal to different services, mostly because they only have a web version. This works well on desktop, as I synchronize bookmarks and show them in the New Tab page, but less so on mobile; I keep Floccus at hand, but it would be great to hane a widget to show a specific folder of bookmarks directly in the launcher.
I hoped to find widgets already, but I'm using Nova launcher and I do not see any. I checked the issues here and I found it strange for a request like this to be missing.
### Describe the solution you'd like
A simple widget would be enough, with the ability to configure it when added to the home screen; this would not require to create a page to manage them or add special buttons to change the folder that's shown.
Some apps, like Tasks.org, let the user manage the added widget through a setting page, to configure their content again and customize their appearance:

I customized the aspect of this tasks widget to fit the others I have, but any working list would be useful. This could be a list or a grid of icons for the bookmarks, which would better fit standard Android launchers — if it had no background it would integrate even more seamlessly.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
A valid alternative would be a single icon launching a specific bookmark: right now I'd need to donwload another app to create a launcher icon to a web URL, but it makes much more sense to use Floccus bookmarks as a source. This solution won't be synchronized with a folder, but it would let the user choose where to place icons and how to customize them according to launchers' capabilities.
This solution won't need a configuration page for sure, as it makes more sense for an icon to be removed and added again if something changes.
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