We know that Win11 has deleted many system components, such as the classic live tile in Win10, which disappeared from the new system. Win11 will welcome the 22H2 "Sun Valley 2" update this year, which is a major anniversary update for Win11 and will focus on improving and refining the existing user interface. News shows that in this update, Win11 will support third-party widgets, which are very similar to the previous live tiles.
The message shows that Win11 currently lacks some basic features, such as not being able to easily turn off "Recommendations" in the Start menu, not being able to increase the number of icons displayed on the same screen in the Start menu, and its "Widgets" feature does not support tools from third parties. Currently, the widget panel in Win11 only supports official widgets like Microsoft Calendar, Movies & TV, and Microsoft To-Do, but with the arrival of 22H2, widgets will support third parties.
A new developer guide on the Microsoft website has confirmed that future Windows 11 updates will significantly improve the widget panel by adding support for third-party widgets. The documentation shows that third-party widgets can implement a variety of information presentation based on the network. Microsoft doesn't plan to support widgets based on Win32 or UWP, but that will obviously change in the future.
Interestingly, third-party widgets do not rely on the Microsoft Store and do not need to be installed through the Store. According to the documentation, publishing a widget to the Microsoft Store can be enhanced, and developers can choose to publish the widget through the Microsoft Store, in the same process as publishing other applications.
According to the development documentation, third-party developed widgets will have the following characteristics.
The app extension manifest allows users to register widgets in the widget panel.
· The MSI installation code calls the widget registration API when it registers with COM.
Support for web widgets, and more new features will be available later.
In addition, the development documentation mentions adaptive cards, which are "platform-agnostic UI fragments" that resemble widgets and are designed to be integrated into devices to provide a widget-like experience. Adaptive Cards automatically adjust styles to match different devices to ensure low memory and CPU usage, as well as other features.
Microsoft may already be working with a small group of developers to develop new widgets, and public testing should begin in a few weeks, as Microsoft hopes the feature will be ready for Windows 11 Sun Valley 2.
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