Though Apple did not announce any official APIs to developers for developing widgets but they did leave some clues to them. Apple released 2 widgets namely – Weather and Stock Ticker with the notification center and this is enough to ignite developer’s mind. Following this trail iOS developer @WillFour20 proved it possible to create widgets for notification center, opening an era of custom widgets for jailbreakers down the line.
It’s easy, by including a class that implements BBWeeAppController protocol any application can be accessed just by tapping it. This works not only with the stock iOS apps but also with the AppStore apps.
![Widget system for iOS 5](http://techbu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/notification_center_custom_widget-266x400.jpg)
I am looking forward to these awesome bunch of small codes to be integrated into Notification Center, are you too looking forward to it? Share your love and ideas about widgets in the comments.
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