Widget Construction Set

Widget Construction Set is available for iOS devices on the App Store.

Launch URLs

Widget Construction Set supports a URL scheme of widget://.

You can programmatically add a widget by launching widget://add_widget?url=....

If you want to go meta, you could make a large widget that showed widget previews inside it. Tapping the image of a wiget preview could use link_url with the url of widget://add_widget?url=....

If you want to link to private widgets with the credentials embedded in the add link, you can pass extra query parameters of user and password. For example widget://add_widget?url=...&user=...&password=....

Widget Fetch Interval

Widget Construction Set fetches widgets around every 15 minutes. It isn't meant to be real-time, but should stay relatively up-to-date.

Privacy Policy

Widget Construction Set does not collect personally identifiable data. Widget Construction Set does not collect telemetry or other usage data. All data is stored on your device.