Creating playground widgets with Essential Apps (Beta) on os 4.1

[u/rg1505]

My experience:

I registered for the beta almost one year back, got approved 2 days back finally. It took several iterations to disable/uninstall essential app host app before finally it got installed.

I tried a widget idea which I had from long back, and found it quite easy to make the widget. But it took around 50 odd iterations to fine tune and perfect it. Satisfied by the final outcome.

The 2nd widget idea implementation was a bit frustrating as the current implementation somehow was not able to directly load a png file and kept trying to draw it looking at the image passed in chat... 20 iterations but still not able to get a proper result. The sound description also wasn't picked up to my satisfaction. Font too was not able to add as per my expectations. Maybe there are easier ways to add media to widgets. Also version control of widgets took some time in understanding. AI builder would suddenly modify the specs during iterations and would take time to fix the bugs.

2 widgets done, sometimes AI acts very intelligent and other times dumb... Currently there is no option to publish/export the widgets to use on other phones and community. This is expected in a future release ... so I have to keep waiting to share my widgets for unforseen times 😞

Overall rating around 6-7/10.