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Polish Pass — Making Expo Home Screen Widgets Actually Readable

· One min read
Mike Homol
Mike Homol
Principal Consultant @ ThreeWill

After the SDK 55 revival, the next problem was not “do widgets render?” — it was “can you read them at a glance?” Trimming the set and using a consistent brand mark beat shipping every layout variant.

What happened​

  • Wired shared skull PNGs through the widget snapshot builder for completed goals
  • Clarified week/dreams layouts and trimmed the overall widget set
  • Fixed TestFlight margin gates for fewer widgets
  • Confirmed on device / TestFlight (not simulator-only) — readable at a glance
  • App Store v1 docs will cover all layouts in the polished set (not deferring variants out of the write-up)

Memento Mori home-screen widgets — polished readable set