We're pleased to announce the release of HD Widgets 2.0.

HD Widgets 2.0 is a universal app for Android phones and Honeycomb tablets, and is the first to offer 7" tablet size widgets (6x2, 6x1, 3x5).

Existing users may update for free on all of their Android devices.

The app’s UI provides an early taste of Ice Cream Sandwich, particularly in the tab & page navigation. In fact, swipe is fundamental to the core experience: almost all navigation and customization is done via left/right swipe gestures.

As a widget app, HD Widgets 2.0 was made to be as lightweight and flexible as possible. The app uses 4 unique apks based on screen size & resolution. Each version supplies only the images necessary for that particular device, thus reducing storage space while providing pixel-perfect resolution.

This latest release is totally reorganized and built for future expansion. The old Preview activity has been replaced with two new activities: Active Widgets for finding and customizing existing widgets and Themes to preview each theme’s collection. Quick Tips have been replaced with a User Guide to help new Android users who are unfamiliar with widgets. Finally, all HD Widgets are now organized by size groups (1x1, 2x1, etc) making it easy to locate them at the start of your widget menu.

We didn't expect to do a giant huge update - we only wanted to get it ported to phones. But soon into development we realized this was going to be a brand new app (4 actually) under the hood. Existing 10" tablet users will notice only a few changes: widgets are thicker and there's a few new ones. But the phone app and 7" tablet layouts are entirely new.

This also took much longer than we had planned. We can finally return to focus on Cloudskipper for the next few months. We'll work on bug fixes but we're not planning to add any major features to HD Widgets until after Cloudskipper 2.0 is released. Still, we may toss in one or two new themes, just to keep things interesting or if we get wrestless.

Thanks to everyone who helped out with testing and support, and additional thanks to everyone who bought the app - you make it easy for us to keep this up.

For everyone else - support the cause! Get off the fence and go download HD Widgets now =)