SMALL APPS Posts on XDA

Learn How To Make Your Own Small App

Learn How To Make Your Own Small App

October 4, 2014
Floating applications are very popular--not only here at XDA, but in Play Store as well. One of the first OEM that used floating application in its stock firmware was Sony. Small Apps are independent applications that can be used on top of other applications. For example, you can run a small calculator and perform some...
Expand Your Xperia Small Apps Suite with Phone, Torch, Launcher, and Stopwatch Small Apps

Expand Your Xperia Small Apps Suite with Phone, Torch, Launcher, and Stopwatch Small Apps

July 10, 2014
Introduced back in 2012, the Sony Xperia Small Apps feature was perhaps the first major step in what has become an integral part of multitasking on Android devices. And since then, there have been plenty of useful small apps, as well as various mods and ports developed by XDA community members. Now two years on, the momentum...
Three New Small Apps to Add to the Collection

Three New Small Apps to Add to the Collection

May 10, 2013
Previously we introduced two small apps developed by XDA Recognized Themer soumya_digi. Those were a music control small app and a LMGTFY small app, and they were created using the Small Apps add-on SDK provided by Sony. If you are not aware, small apps are floating, miniature applications that hover over any running application. They allow you...
Media Control and LMGTFY Small Apps for the Xperias

Media Control and LMGTFY Small Apps for the Xperias

March 22, 2013
The one great thing about Sony's Small Apps feature found on their Xperia devices is not the multitasking that they grant users, but that developers are allowed and encouraged to develop their own Xperia Small Apps to their hearts' content with the Sony Add-on SDK. Well, XDA Senior Member soumya_digi came out with not one, but two Small...