Methods and apparatus for rendering a collection of widgets on a mobile device display

A method of rendering a collection of widgets on a mobile device display, the method comprising:

• receiving notification to transition the collection of widgets on the mobile device display from a two-dimensional presentation to a three-dimensional presentation, the two-dimensional presentation comprising two-dimensional representations of widgets rendered with a canvas on the mobile device display;
• replacing each of the two-dimensional representations of widgets in the collection of widgets with a respective three-dimensional representation of a widget in the collection of widgets;
• presenting the collection of widgets on mobile device display as the three-dimensional presentation by rendering the three-dimensional representations of widgets with the canvas;
• and
• rendering the collection of widgets three dimensionally on the mobile device display.

A method of rendering a collection of widgets on a mobile device display, the method comprising:

• rendering a native widget on the mobile device display utilizing a native interface;
• identifying a non-native widget requiring a non-native interface to operate on the mobile device display;
• and
• providing a proxy widget to host the non-native widget allowing the non-native widget to operate on the mobile device display utilizing the native interface.