

For example, it is not possible to switch between temperature units for the Weather Widget it displays the current and forecast temperatures only in Fahrenheit. Lock Widgets is a fresh release, so there aren’t many configuration options available so far. Users of the app get to decide whether they want a single widget or a combination of all the available ones. If you want to select an image from the Pictures hub instead, go for the third option. Choosing either of the first two sources makes the lock screen background dynamic, updating daily from the selected source. The ‘Background’ section of Lock Widgets has three options, including ‘Bing daily’, ‘NASA daily’ and ‘From photos’. This step ensures that users don’t have to manually enable dynamic lock screen from Settings. When Lock Widgets is launched for the first time, you have to grant it the permission to change your lock screen backgrounds. If you want to use the app only for its widgets, that can be done too. Thanks to this great app, users can set up dynamic wallpapers by using Bing or NASA images as sources. His newly released Lock Widgets app lets you set up a dynamic lock screen, and also offers real-time widgets for battery status and weather information. As has often been the case, the famed Windows Phone developer Jaxbot has come to the rescue. While there are a few very good apps that make your lock screen dynamic, not much work has been done on the widgets front. WP8 supports automatically changing lock screen backgrounds, and widgets that shows real-time data.


Lock screen widgets were available only for developer-unlocked devices in the days of WP7, but before releasing Windows Phone 8, Microsoft realized the true potential of an information-rich lock screen.
