The widget

A small tile for your home screen. It shows your instrument and tuning, and one tap opens Twangle on the tuner, ready to listen.

Put it on your home screen

1. Touch and hold an empty spot on your home screen, then tap Widgets. (The words differ a little from phone to phone.)
2. Find Twangle in the list. Its widget is called Tuner: Shows your instrument and tuning. One tap opens the tuner.
3. Drag it to where you want it.

What it shows

A tuning fork, your instrument and tuning as the tuner names them, for example Guitar · Standard or Guitar · Drop C (one of your own by its own name, or Any note), and Open the tuner under it. It is three cells wide and one high; on most phones you can make it narrower. With very large text, or where the home screen gives it little height, it shows just your instrument and tuning.

Change the tuning in Twangle and the widget follows. Its colours are Twangle's, light or dark as Twangle is, and your wallpaper's when Twangle uses them (Settings → Wallpaper colours).

Good to know

• The widget never uses the microphone. Twangle listens only once the tuner is on the screen, exactly as when you open it from its icon.
• It never wakes up on a timer, so it costs no battery: Twangle redraws it only when what it shows changes.
• With TalkBack, it is one button: Guitar, Standard, then Open the tuner.