Hi Everyone,
Looking for some good widgets for my Hero as I have some spare space free on my home screens.
I have bbc news and bbc sport widgets a weather widget (although maybe a smaller version would be nicer) and phone contact one (standard HTC one).
Can anyone else suggest some good ones worth having?
Cheers
batterylife is a good one
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When I look at the HTC Aria, there are many more widgets listed under Android while the Captivate has a much shorter list. How do I add those widgets to the Captivate?
Anrdoid Market.
On a side note I really recommend Beautiful Widgets. It is worth the money and adds a very Sense UI like clock / widget fun.
saint168 said:
When I look at the HTC Aria, there are many more widgets listed under Android while the Captivate has a much shorter list. How do I add those widgets to the Captivate?
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Most of those are likely HTC widgets that only come with their devices.
dsjr2006 said:
Most of those are likely HTC widgets that only come with their devices.
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Good point that is more than likely the case. For a sense ui like feel get LaucherPro (Its free) and Beautiful Widgets (Paid). Or if you like LauncherPro it has a paid version that adds a few extra widgets.
If your using LauncherPro or ADW-Launcher I HIGHLY recommend giving "Pure Messenger Widget" a try. It's by FAR the best social network widget out there. And if your using one of those two launchers I just mentioned its scrollable! You can customize it to make it just like HTC's FriendStream or Twitter widget.
What about things like the stock news and weather widget? I didn't find that in the market and now since replacing touchwiz with launcher pro I don't have access to the daily briefing widget anymore.
Now that most of us are using 2.2 with no sense, I was wondering if any fellow forumers had any alternative widgets, available through the market, that helps ease the pain of using Sense for the moment?
At this point, Ive found Pure Grid Calendar Widget to be a great alternative for the Sense Calendar but Im still trying to find something to replace the "people" widget on sense, to fast dial your favorites in the same manner.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
This is why I am sticking with sense. The phone.apk is god-like, and I couldn't live without it.
I think launcher pro plus has Widgets similar to sense.
Sent from my HTC Hero
Launcher Pro Plus now has calander, people and bookmarks widgets. There's beautiful widgets for flip clock/weather...I really like Dialer One for the phone, better than the sense one IMO. That about covers it I think...
Actually, Launcher Pro Plus now has a messaging widget as well.
I like Fancy Widget for the flip-clock/weather, but not quite as much as I liked the Sense clock/weather widget. I'd really like something that could show multiple cities of my choosing, in addition to current location, which Sense provided.
danmaskell said:
Actually, Launcher Pro Plus now has a messaging widget as well.
I like Fancy Widget for the flip-clock/weather, but not quite as much as I liked the Sense clock/weather widget. I'd really like something that could show multiple cities of my choosing, in addition to current location, which Sense provided.
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AFAIK, Fancy Widget is off the market due to some HTC pressure. =(
phlash73 said:
AFAIK, Fancy Widget is off the market due to some HTC pressure. =(
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Or you could get beautiful Widgets. They have some nice clock and weather skins
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Can we start a Widget Marathon for Xoom!!
I am not seeing much Widget listing anywhere!!
And any made for Tablets either, wish there is a Widget Tab for Tablet in Market!!
Why not we all start one here!!
All I can see and start one is this I used Daily!!
WeatherBug for Honeycomb
Rating maybe bad on Market of 3 Stars, Overall Great widget shows my weather!!
Interface for the Full App is brilliant and easy to read!!
Beautiful Widgets (Paid)
Rating 4.5 Stars on Market
Tons of Apps, my own comment not enough for Daily Usages, mainly just looks to beautify!!
[I will add more when I stumble on to more]
wizz Widgets is the best and free.
AppStack and Reader HD are both exactly what I was looking for, the widget for Reader HD lets you set a widget with a custom rss feed that looks like the cnn app's news widget. Win. AppStack is a flashy app organizer that is great for sorting my games.
I didnt really know about this app till a week ago i've been using widget locker and its actually pretty neat if you like to customize your phone outside motorolas limits.
Amazon app store has it for .99 and android market has it for $1.99.
The battery life seems to stay the same it does run constantly but in a weeks time i cant tell any battery difference. Hope you guys enjoy the app!!!
Widgetlocker is one of my favorite apps! I wish I had known about it when I was flip-flopping between htc & rotary lockscreens on my DInc.
Another of my favorites, coming from an htc phone, is fancy widgets. I can't live without a big flip clock on my home screen.
And now you have full support and resources for it, courtesy of the devs and the Android Themes forum waaaaay above us. =)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732986
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=825553
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/widgetlocker-mods-and-how-to´s-for-android/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=968613
Widget locker is great. I recently switched to Hidden Lock which to me is even better.
Are there any decent weather apps out there that work properly with the note's huge 720p screen?
Reason I ask this is because after recently using my personal favourite weather app (beautiful weather) it only takes up a part of the screen and looks ugly.
It has not been updated to stretch and make use of the note's screen.
The note comes preinstalled with accuweather but I do not like it's interface & when looking at the temperatures of other countries it's all over the place.
Any good recommended weather apps made specially for the note or at least take up the whole width of the screen?
Eye candy is a must have, something good looking like beautiful weather.
How about ocean weather.
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How about ocean weather.
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Ocean weather? It does not exist.
actually it's not a widget it's live wallpaper plus weather include....but i love the function of this when there is rain it show on screen water drop...
AIX Weather:
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.veierland.aix&hl=en
HTC Sense style weather
Coming from 9 years of HTC devices, I am quite attached to the Sense Weather Clock.
Fancy Widgets has the best app that works well and puts waether and time on the homescreen and links to the stock clock.
There are many other skins included than the Sense one in Fancy Widgets.
How about Beautiful Widgets? I'm using it myself (on my DHD) and it works and looks (after some theming) awesome.
I think it's free at Getjar, but it may have been a "app of the day" thing when i got it.
Beweather is also good.. it also has HTC like or even better animations of the weather when u tap them..
P.S- its free at get jar too..
Thanks everyone for your replies, much appreciated.
I think the best looking weather app I've seen posted here was the Fancy Widgets which I will try.
BazookaAce recommended beautiful widgets which is great and I've tried.
Problem with beautiful widgets is that it's made for devices which are 800x400, which is what you have.
As the Galaxy note is 1280x800 it does not stretch in full screen and looks horrible.
Im using yahoo weather.
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Chillz88 said:
Beweather is also good.. it also has HTC like or even better animations of the weather when u tap them..
P.S- its free at get jar too..
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I vote for Beweather. Good weather forecasts too...
Mine is tiny yandex widget. I love it small size.
kanej2006 said:
Thanks everyone for your replies, much appreciated.
I think the best looking weather app I've seen posted here was the Fancy Widgets which I will try.
BazookaAce recommended beautiful widgets which is great and I've tried.
Problem with beautiful widgets is that it's made for devices which are 800x400, which is what you have.
As the Galaxy note is 1280x800 it does not stretch in full screen and looks horrible.
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I use Beautiful Widgets and Go Launcher EX does a great job of re-sizing the widgets. I have setup my grid 5 wide and 6 high and the only problem now is finding enough widgets to fill the screens.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340685
thats what I use
kanej2006 said:
Thanks everyone for your replies, much appreciated.
I think the best looking weather app I've seen posted here was the Fancy Widgets which I will try.
BazookaAce recommended beautiful widgets which is great and I've tried.
Problem with beautiful widgets is that it's made for devices which are 800x400, which is what you have.
As the Galaxy note is 1280x800 it does not stretch in full screen and looks horrible.
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On the contrary...BW has widgets that expand to the full screen. I tried them all & stuck with BW.
Chillz88 said:
Beweather is also good.. it also has HTC like or even better animations of the weather when u tap them..
P.S- its free at get jar too..
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After trying a few weather apps I preferred the one you mentioned, beweather followed by beautiful widgets...
I decided to stick with beweather pro. It's a great looking app having an excellent interface as well as being easy to configure and customize.
k9vap said:
On the contrary...BW has widgets that expand to the full screen. I tried them all & stuck with BW.
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Can you please explain how?
I have gone through everything, but can't change it from 4 columns wide to 5.
Cheers.
The launcher has to support it. Its a launcher and not a widget feature. Currently Zeam, ADW (Ex?), Launcher Pro (Plus) and Go Launcher Ex support widget resizing, there are maybe more, dont know.
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Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated.
Snowstorm on my SGSII from few months ago
Currently using BW