Widgets/Apps
Ronan Gruenbaum · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2015
Widgets are small programs (or interactive virtual tools) that ar “bolted on” to existing applications and will generally do one function such as displaying data from a particular application on the desktop Apps are small programs for mobile devices (generally) that differ from mainstream applications in that they are usually only intended to d one particular function rather than cover every possible requiremen of an office productivity suite, for example. As apps become mor mainstream, however, they are also growing in complexity and the app available on tablets (such as the iPad, Windows, or Android tablets are often replicating the full- blown applications of desktop computing Widgets have migrated to mobiles and once again give desktop acces to particular functions of an app, such as showing a stream of update from social media. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.