XMBC Widgets provides a few convenient app widgets for you to control XBMC directly from the home screen - without starting any other applications. For example, there's a recent Movies widget and a recent TV shows widget. The widgets displays the cover art for movies and show art with episode info for tv-shows. Clicking any of these starts the video . Ofcourse you can flip the artwork to see older videos.
I built this out of my own necessity but I figured I'll just put it out there for you all.
On a personal level it's been a ridiculously healthy experience to try something out other than .NET stuff that I usually do. It was especially interesting to compare Android paradigms against Windows Phone.