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I see new apps pop up everyday, but how come there haven't been any new widgets yet?
I had a great idea for an alternative to the Google search widget, but I can't find the code for it to work off of. Does anyone have any insight they can share on how or where I can get it?
I liked the idea of the widgets, but after a few days I removed both of them. It just took up to much room on my display. there is already a digital clock, why is a analog one needed too. And my home page is google, so why do I need it on my home screen. Once they come out with useful ones I may try again. But now they just are not needed for me.
Sorry its a bit off topic, but thats always bugged me.
TimSykes said:
Once they come out with useful ones I may try again.
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That's the gist of what I was getting at. I hate the analog clock too, and the Google one is almost just as useless. There is a lot of potential, but I'd hate to see a rash of useless ones like some of the apps currently in the market.
You know what would be nice, if you can download a widget that is used on igoogle. there are a lot of cool/useful ones there.
They havent released the SDK for widgets yet. Soon as they do im sure you will see many tip calculator widgets.
I want a weather widget! I would love to see the weather for today and 2 days into the future just like my old Hermes did.
the week before the G1 came out, Android Community was teeming with app and widget ideas. I roposed a weather widget similar to the weather tab on TouchFLO 3D. Instead of having the 3D weather overlay on a blank black screen, the weather would overlay on top of the desktop, making it look liek the weather is happening inside your phone. Imagine your screen getting frost on it from the inside, rain drops dripping down your screen, blurring out your icons, snow blowing across stick to the screen and making snow drifts when it hits your icons.
ok back on topic.
Once the SDK is released there will be a swarm of widgets popping up on the market, but there's definitely going to be some rel crappy things out there, just like apps and games..
I never use one of my screens I would love a weather on to utilize that full window.
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Once the SDK is released there will be a swarm of widgets popping up on the market, but there's definitely going to be some rel crappy things out there, just like apps and games..
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You forgot crappy themes lol
might be awhile for widgets, the widget SDK required root access, so they have to pretty much redo the majority of it before they can release it since they don't want anyone to have root access...dunno if that's Google's decision or T-Mobile's.
That's gotta be tmobile doing that. Google's all about open source right?
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the week before the G1 came out, Android Community was teeming with app and widget ideas. I roposed a weather widget similar to the weather tab on TouchFLO 3D. Instead of having the 3D weather overlay on a blank black screen, the weather would overlay on top of the desktop, making it look liek the weather is happening inside your phone. Imagine your screen getting frost on it from the inside, rain drops dripping down your screen, blurring out your icons, snow blowing across stick to the screen and making snow drifts when it hits your icons.
ok back on topic.
Once the SDK is released there will be a swarm of widgets popping up on the market, but there's definitely going to be some rel crappy things out there, just like apps and games..
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can we please put that from fiction into reality????!!!! That would be amazing. Another strike against these cocky iphone owners... (only envy from me )
Maybe an own thread - wishlist- app???
there is an app on the market called steamy window. Maybe a good start to combine with a weather app?
I could (for the most part) care less about cupcake's offerings. I want some of the "behind the scenes" stuff to help smooth out the OS, but the flashy stuff I could care less about. Widgets, in my opinion, are the only eye candy I could use or want....
I wonder if it will even be possible to create without root access since it needs to push/pull info from the main application.
My first thought when having the G1, was if they plan to include widgets at some point (which I bet they do), then will they allow us more than 3 homescreens? I mean, the google widgets themselves take up valuable realestate!
I don't get it, why do you say "when the sdk will be released", you mean a total new version of the sdk ?
And why can't we now, develop widget, we just have to look how the google search widget was done and realise some widget.
And yes, the htc meteo interface is really amazing, if someone realise something like that for android, it will be awesome
I havent been able to find a fix for this anywhere...
so i fixed it myself....(when using wm 6.5, TitaniumWeather and s2u2 weather option is set for "userweather")
This is to fix the issue of S2U2 displaying the wrong weather icon in wm 6.5 and userweather option selected in S2U2.
copy the contents of the file folder (which it should be just pictures) to
S2U2/gfx/weather/ folder, to replace the pictures that are already there.
done....!!!
this has only been tried on windows mobile 6.5 using TITANIUMWEATHER, not touchflo
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I havent been able to find a fix for this anywhere...
so i fixed it myself....
copy the contents of the file folder (which it should be just pictures) to
S2U2/gfx/weather/ folder, to replace the pictures that are already there.
done....!!!
this has only been tried on windows mobile 6.5, not touchflo
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what does this do other then put the icons on the screen? put it in the center under the clock?
i have found other users with the same issue, the incorrect weather icon is displayed, this fixes that issue....
o do you mean when it get dark the icon stays as a sun instead of the moon?
correct, such as where i am, it has been clear all day, but s2u2 displays snow and ice....it kinda got annoying, so i took care of it....
o nice work
Which of the pictures in the zip did you modify/change? I'm interested in this fix, but I used a different set of weather icons.
Thanks!
right on, heres the story.....
as i was getting annoyed by the inability of the program to display the correct icon, i knew the problem was easy to fix. Accuweather calls upon the weather icon from wm 6.5 using numbers as the file name. So i figured that S2u2 does the same thing, and if that was true then the file names were numbered incorrectly to begin with. looking through the gfx/weather folder i found two sets of icons. the icons that s2u2 were using were incorrectly numbered. i found the second set was correctly numbered and just removed the first set and renamed the second set so that only numbers were in the file name. hence fixing the issue...
i tried the fix and i dont see a difference
p.s. from my understanding when the weather changes the icon changes. so far it hasnt..did i do something wrong?
make sure that s2u2 is setup for UserWeather under the notifications settings tab....its really only viable when u use wm 6.5 interface and TitaniumWeather....
i apologize if i didnt mention that before....i will edit
HTC Sence/touchflo 3d wrong s2u2 icons
I tried a similar trick to the HH_WEATHER icons for the touchflo 3d weather option but there seems to be something more seriously wrong with s2u2. For instance 'party cloudy' and 'mostly cloudy' weather results in displaying the same icon.
After spending a few days swapping icons about I gave up and turned off the weather in s2u2. It seems to be a moving target, like there is some counter out of sync.
This was on a touch pro2, wm6.5. Don't know which HTC Sence verision.
It would be good to know if others with my phone actually have s2u2 weather icons working with the TF3D weather and if there was a fix required.
hello,
For TF3D's weather, it seems not match because S2U2 show forecast only.
A part of the discution with A_C
A_C: "For the Manila 3D, v1.33 simply implemented what's done so far as v1.32d. i.e. some users may still cannot have the weather icon shown. There is no solution yet. Besides, please don't tell me that the icon shown on S2U2 does not match with the Manila 3D's Weather tab any more. It's simply because S2U2 is showing the FORECAST info."
This problem is old problem (V 1.33)
yours,
The widget, which can be found on the market, is called "What's Today Calendar Widget" and "What's Today Cal Widget Donate." Like the name implies, it tells about today. The day of the week is displayed, along with the calendar date.
Never forget the day of the week or the day of the month again! And best of all, it has an Eclair theme to it to match Google's "News and Weather" widget.
If you like the way it looks (shown in attached screenshots), please check it out in the market and considering purchasing "What's Today Widget" from the market. Thanks!!
Changelog:
1.0
– Released
1.1
– 2×1 Widget Added
1.3
- Re-coded the widget from the ground up
- Press widget to open calendar agenda
- Fixed a bug with updating the correct date (still buggy, it’s being worked on)
- Updated widget images to better match Google’s “News and Weather” widgets
You're seriously charging money for this..? It takes 1 line of code and a layout xml to make this in Android.
I'm not trying to be a **** or put you off learning the sdk, but maybe you should come up with some more creative ideas before trying to charge people for them.. After all, you can just pull down the notification bar to see the date.
Point noted. To be honest, I wasn't sure how things like this are usually received.
I've made it free on the market now. Thanks for your feedback.
I still think you should make a donate version...maybe just $0.25. I tried to do exactly what goldenarmZ said and ran out of time and patience, so there may be a market out there for this.
Sadly the market does not let me charge less than 99 cents, otherwise I would.
I have uploaded a Donate version of the Widget for 99 cents. Thanks for the suggestion.
Tried it for a bit, but it seems to have the formatting of the Nexus News widget which is a different size and shape than the Power Control widget. Maybe I'm just picky, but having two nearly similar widgets on the screen that aren't exactly the same size looks a bit off...
Wow I love the simplicity of it. I would def. donate
Nice work OP.
Keep it installed to see what the dev will do with updates, but I keep finding it running a process, even though I don't have any widgets on the screen? Going to have to uninstall for this reason...
There will be an update soon that will attempt to address the problem with the process running, but I'm not sure exactly why this is.
To keep updated on this widget, the changelog is at http://naterad.com/android/category/widgets/whats-today-calendar-widget/
Available in Google Market...
End December 2010 I released WMD-Weather Lite in the Android Market. This widget is based on the WMD-Weather widget I created earlier for the Windows Mobile UI Androkkid. Since then, I've been working on the full version of this weather app & widget, hoping to release it soon as a paid version. This one will extend the lite version, and combine ideas from two other Androkkid widgets I created: WMD-Clock and WMD-WorldClock.
The application features a weather application, showing the current conditions (weather icon, temp, short text, status icons), a 6-day forecast and details when a weather icon is clicked (see images below), including a radar image. Where available (US), the UV index and pollen information/air quality are available as well for today's details.
Multiple locations are supported, as well as 'My location' which is modified when you move, and just about any location on the planet can be added. By swiping left or right, the next location's info is displayed. When the current location is known (via GPS or network), it will be proposed when adding a location.
The application can be set to update automatically.
Please see my site to get the latest information on features (this post is not updated frequently).
Lanuages supported: English, Dutch, German, French, Norwegian, Hungarian
Currently, the application comes with 3 widgets:
Simple weather widget (2x1)
- shows the location,
- the current weather icon
- current temperature and real feel temperature
- next day forecast icon, min/max temperature
- optional background (choice of backgrounds)
- time last updated
- clicking on the widget will launch the app with the widget's location
Weather/Clock widget (4x1)
- the simple weather widget, combined with
- a clock, optionally showing the location's local time
- optionally, the next alarm
- optionally, the current date
- optional backgrounds (choice of backgrounds)
- choice of 5 clock digit styles
- optionally display the hour leading 0 (e.g. 01:00 instead of 1:00)
- optionally select an application to launch when the clock's digits are clicked
Advanced Weather/Clock widget (4x2)
- the Weather/Clock widget, combined with
- an additional row with forecasts for the main widget location and/or current weather info for other locations (including the location's time)
By using the location's time, the clock widget can be used to create a weather/world clock by adding multiple locations with their time to your Android home app (see the images below for an example).
Currently in development for the next version:
- downloadable digit styles and backgrounds
- reworked internals
- more languages: Spanish & Portuguese
Wish list:
- widgets functioning on all devices
- additional weather widget(s)
- screen to screen animation
- slide from day to day in the details screen
All resolutions should be supported, allthough for 320x200 devices, scrolling is required to see all information. And, depending on the screen's density and the launcher used, the widgets may not display correctly. Try out the lite version to verify everything is displayed correctly.
PS: the application is tested on small screen/low dpi resolutions via the emulator, for which the results are correct. However, on the HTC Wildfire the widgets are not rendered fully...
WMD-Weather contains more information, screenshots, version info and the barcode to install the application. The link and barcode for WMD-Weather Lite can be found there as well.
Any feedback - good or bad, bugs, ... - is appreciated!
Dirk
WMD-Soft
Thanks for this opportunity, XDA!
Reserved for later use...
simple and so good!
excepter said:
simple and so good!
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Thanks Excepter!
Please let me know if you notice any incorrect behavior (clock stops updating, service no longer running, ...).
I'm also looking for feedback on HTC Sense based devices. The widget size may be incorrect on HTC Sense, but I'm unable to test this (on ADWLauncher, my favorite, it looks good on all resolutions).
If you have other ideas to improve the application's functionalilty, I'll be happy to hear this as well...
Good work! I installed this on a htc hero running aosp 2.2 (no sense). I'll report back in a few days if I have any issues/ideas.
Edit: I just got an "error configuring widget" after I changed some of the preferences. Hmph I should have left it alone. Anyway I have to go to sleep, I'll play with it more tomorrow. I wish I had the skills to put together something like this; time is so hard to come by anymore...
Got it tested today on a HTC Desire with Sense (thanks Wim). No issues there.
However, the widgets on the HTC Wildfire (thanks Kurt) don't show all info and the background doesn't cover the entire widget. Something to work on...
Looking good, Ima try it later.
These look really clean!
i can only update weather in wifi mode, not in 3g. why ? any solutions ?
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i can only update weather in wifi mode, not in 3g. why ? any solutions ?
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Sorry for my somewhat late response.
I've had no issues with connectivity. However, in the lite version's comments there are 2 comments (out of 72) regarding update issues.
The app verifies if there's an internet connection available before launching an update. I've been able to test wifi, edge, hdspa, but not 3G myself.
Hopefully other users can share their experience here, to find out if it's 3G or device related. I'll do some research on this as well.
Nice work! Using this on my HTC Hero, no issues whatsoever.
edge, hdspa, don't work too
frontenaysien said:
edge, hdspa, don't work too
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Other weather (or other) applications function correctly?
cost too much power on my defy.
Great app,installed n testing now
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA Premium App
i like it, thank you very much
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However, the widgets on the HTC Wildfire (thanks Kurt) don't show all info and the background doesn't cover the entire widget. Something to work on...
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Did you ever find a fix for this? I have the same issue with one of my widgets...
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Did you ever find a fix for this? I have the same issue with one of my widgets...
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Nope... not yet. Small screen devices will be one of the things I'll be focussing on next, cause it's really bugging me. I've already put in quite some time and tried some alternative layouts, but without success. If anyone else has a solution, please let me know.
It's hard to emulate. One thing I noticed lately is, that my widgets actually overlap in the small screen emulator. Which is a first (small) step ahead...
So I ended up buying a htc wildfire to do development work on for small screens.
The htc doesn't handle the small screen in the same way that others (such as the xperia x10 and the samsung galaxy 550) do. And what I found was that whilst the bounding box on my widget looked fone on the xperia and 550, it was stopping short on the wildfire.
Within my layout I had a android:layout_marginBottom="15dip" for the bounding box. Duplicating the layout and putting it in layout-small and removing the marginBottom fixed the problem for the widget on the wildfire, but also left a large space on the other small screens. As I have fewer wildfire users than x10 users this wasn't an option. Yesterday I tested a dirty fix; in the settings/preferences menu I have added in a widget layout option with default and small screen (wildfire) options.
When the user selects the wildfire option the widget will load with a layout that doesn't use marginBottom for the bounding box. And this seems to work. Would be good if I could detect what device the user was using so that this could be done automatically.
Thanks. It seems to be the same issue I'm having with the Wildfire. The emulator did not show the issue, but it does partly overlap 2 (of my) widgets when putting one above the other. I was planning on experimenting with relative layouts. Did you try something like that?
Is there an extra large clock/calendar widget (perhaps similar to the HTC)? I would like to use my gtablet in its dock, in landscape with the widget taking up the full screen rather than one corner (which is the biggest I can find now)
The one that I know that would do that is a paid app. It is called beautiful widgets. I paid for it on my phone and transferred it over to the gtablet. I will get some pictures of it in the morning. It is definately worth the money. You can customize so much with it that it makes the htc one look amateur.
Sent from my Froyo Leak...thanks Kaos \00/
Many thanks,
The clocks are excellent and scalable to suit my needs. However, the weather icons (and there are lots of them) are very small and not scalable. I'll look around to see if extra large weather icons exist!
I really liked the stock tapntap one that came on the tab.
Is the apk for that one around? Can't seem to find it.
I'd like to see the stock one also
Same here, does anyone have it or know were we can get it
I'd be interested in that apk too