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I won't get picky about it.
But particularly I believe a world of a lot of g1 users, root and non root would really appreciate a home replacement that allows the user to do the following.
Choose which apps to show in the app drawer.
And the ability to move apps out into the "add to home screen" feature that shows up when you longpress the home screen/menu-add. In a new sub section called hidden apps/roughly around there.
So applications to prevent theft on the g1 could be hidden there over being spotted in the app drawer.
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Just an idea.
It is a good idea. Should post it in the dream applications+games section Though.
A layered app menu would be nice...
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A layered app menu would be nice...
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I was thinking that since the hero widget can't be ported to a normal g1 someone could try to use Sweeter home's layer option for an sms type widget similar to the hero.
I think it could work out very well since you can add layers and transparency.
An option to hide the apps in the tray would be nice!! I'm down for that.
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An option to hide the apps in the tray would be nice!! I'm down for that.
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Haha I know! Lately I've been bothered at having a very long app drawer, and apps like Photovault, password storage apps,and other not so commonly used apps would just fit beautifully in that new folder I'm suggesting.
I'm trying to keep this thread alive with hopes that a dev will see it and take the challenge so keep this thread alive :]
If anyone could do this, it would be the folks over at Better Android (OpenHome). In my humble opinion, they have the best home app on the market. You should forward this request to them!
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If anyone could do this, it would be the folks over at Better Android (OpenHome). In my humble opinion, they have the best home app on the market. You should forward this request to them!
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I would like to, but half the time I've ever emailed better home they've done nothing but send me minimal short dissatisfying responses. But yea I use Open Home/have bought it.
Currently running Cyans build with the a hero theme or some widgets works fine enough with me.
But idk I think A home has a better go about things like this.
And of course Sweeter home is my favorite.
Yeah not sure why folders in the menu havent been figured out yet...I was almost sure someone would have cracked that missing feature long ago...
i would love a folder app or a tab app to put in the drawer,
you can hide icons, or make a whole tab of just games.
also, i wish there was a app that would lock icons on the main screens.
so nobody can move the icons unless you activate them.
anyone get my drift?
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That's a good idea, although 'hiding' apps from the app drawer wont provide any securities because they are plenty to launch an app once you get pass the lock screen.
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I sent him back an email saying that it would still help to weed out duplicates (like having a shortcut, and in the app drawer). I didn't get a response back on that one.
I would like to see this though.
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I sent him back an email saying that it would still help to weed out duplicates (like having a shortcut, and in the app drawer). I didn't get a response back on that one.
I would like to see this though.
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Yea if we made a larger up roar about it and got more emails to the betterandroid guys they'd pretty much have to do it
Ive just made something like this.... you can "throw" away the application shortcuts from the app drawer and "restore" them using an added menu..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538871
Haha rogro82 beat me to it.
I was gonna link his thread, but i guess he already linked his own.
Maybe you should provide screenshots and more details.
Thanks!
MY 2 cents
So far I love the suggestions and it sounds great.
Have you seen DxTop? I used it for a while and loved the one swipe to any of the 4 screens, maybe something like that. Maybe the ability to add more or subtract screens.
And always keep it fast.
I have heard that there is a mod that allows up to 10 screens, but I haven't found it yet. Please PM me if you know what mod I am talking about.
Thanks.
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So far I love the suggestions and it sounds great.
Have you seen DxTop? I used it for a while and loved the one swipe to any of the 4 screens, maybe something like that. Maybe the ability to add more or subtract screens.
And always keep it fast.
I have heard that there is a mod that allows up to 10 screens, but I haven't found it yet. Please PM me if you know what mod I am talking about.
Thanks.
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retske - Just so you're aware, the app that rogro linked to just a few posts above does all those things without needing to install bloatware (except for the "1 swipe" thing...what's a tap or 2 more?).
What is everyone's favorite live wallpaper and where you got it from?
Galactic Core. In the market.
the mario live wallpaper is easily the best
Flying Toast
New user, so can't post a link, but look it up on Appbrain. It's in the market.
Mario live wallpaper. And it doesn't consume my battery as other people have mentioned before
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Nexusmod, but I think that recently got removed from the market. I also like aSpiritBomb and Pixel Zombies. Both of those are in the market, but kind of drain battery.
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Nexusmod, but I think that recently got removed from the market. I also like aSpiritBomb and Pixel Zombies. Both of those are in the market, but kind of drain battery.
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I don't know man my mario wallpaper does nothing to my battery. I don't understand you guys taking bout your live wallpaper drains battery
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Starfield. Unfortunately you have to look for a link to those file sharing sites.
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Starfield. Unfortunately you have to look for a link to those file sharing sites.
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do you have a valid link?
I could not find it
This is the thread that i was looking for!
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do you have a valid link?
I could not find it
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http://www.filestube.com/f5439908a519bae703ea,g/com-kalicinscy-wallpaper-starfield.html
Found another one: Justpictures!
It's actually an image viewer (better than the default, in fact), but it also gives you a live wallpaper that cycles through select favorited pics. Probably doesn't drag down the system like other live wallpapers, too. Free, too.
Thunderstorm live by far my fav
pay app .99 worth every cent for me
Nevermind. I figured it out.
my fav is NexusKang live wallpaper 'found in the market.
I really like the Light Grid wallpaper. It isn't interactive, or move when you switch screens. It is really costomizable; different colors, different size blocks, etc.
Personally I like having seasonal wallpaper, and being able to change the colors frequently is a way to have consistency and variety together.
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Wakka something or other. Its really pacman. Free. And customizable to the point that the board will form around your widgets. That and galactic core.
From a phone on an app
If someone knows of a wallpaper that uses the camera and works on the galaxy s please post the name.
From a phone on an app
shake them all, and zoomfield are pretty cool. i use zoomfield most of the time
'Seeds of Life' is awesome, and goes great with Samsung's TouchJizz if you have any sense of humor. You can find it in the market, along with 'Aquarium Free', 'AndWobble2 Premium' (if you're creative), and 'Bokeh Rainbow'
http://www.androidcentral.com/andro...mpaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)
I found this on AndroidCentral. Its a really nice launcher and its free!
Share your thoughts here
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It does have a lot of animations and stuff, but it's not for me.
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Very interesting. Runs smooth on the Epic. One thing I really like about this one is that the pages/workspaces aren't compartmentalized. In other words you can put a button or a widget literally anywhere on the page rather than within the confines of the 4 x 5 grid (or whatever yours is set up as). There are hidden workspaces that are brought up by tapping out a code in the corners of the screens. The hidden workspace is a secondary collection of three additional workspaces...all ready for you to customize and hide.
Every time I try to change the wallpaper to something from my gallery the Media Scanner starts...that's annoying, but may not be a "Regina" thing as my phone is heavily modded. Once I finally did get to my gallery to change the wallpaper...guess what! Each workspace can have it OWN wallpaper! No kidding! Nice little surprise there.
Transitions are sweet, widgets are ok. I think the weather widget may be useless to many as the cities available appear limited, and you have to install add-ons to get it to work properly.
If you are intrigued by the SPB 3D launcher, you'll really like this one. It's a pretty giant step above SPB, and free. I can't wait to see how far they take this one.
Nice, i like it. its kindof like spb shell but its free! hah it has some good widgets and some good features. kind of slow but i think i might try it out for a day or two
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Every time I try to change the wallpaper to something from my gallery the Media Scanner starts...that's annoying, but may not be a "Regina" thing as my phone is heavily modded. Once I finally did get to my gallery to change the wallpaper...guess what! Each workspace can have it OWN wallpaper! No kidding! Nice little surprise there.
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hah my gallery was doing the same thing. i didnt know what was going on.
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Nice, i like it. its kindof like spb shell but its free! hah it has some good widgets and some good features. kind of slow but i think i might try it out for a day or two
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That's what I was thinking
I like it, but they need to fix the transition speeds, and have a feature to turn that off.
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That's what I was thinking
I like it, but they need to fix the transition speeds, and have a feature to turn that off.
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Agreed its OK
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For those talking about transition speed, have you all tried Spare Parts?
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For those talking about transition speed, have you all tried Spare Parts?
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I thought about that. But I'm not rooted as of now. Good suggestion to keep in mind though
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I tried it and didn't like it. It's better then SPB (imo) but ultimately it doesn't do anything better, smoother or easier to use then what I already have on ADW EX. Sometimes it would be difficult to swipe between screens quickly which was annoying, the weather widget is pretty much useless, no widget resizing (I use desktop visualizer a lot for pics), and I didn't care for the style of app drawer. YMMV though.
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I tried it and didn't like it. It's better then SPB (imo) but ultimately it doesn't do anything better, smoother or easier to use then what I already have on ADW EX. Sometimes it would be difficult to swipe between screens quickly which was annoying, the weather widget is pretty much useless, no widget resizing (I use desktop visualizer a lot for pics), and I didn't care for the style of app drawer. YMMV though.
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Actually, widget size can be resized on some by clicking the little "i" button. I agree the app drawer is lame; the weather widget needs work (doesn't even have Chicago!). But give it some time. It doesn't even have a v1.0 yet.
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Actually, widget size can be resized on some by clicking the little "i" button. I agree the app drawer is lame; the weather widget needs work (doesn't even have Chicago!). But give it some time. It doesn't even have a v1.0 yet.
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I had to play around with the weather, but I finally got Charleston WV in there. If I can find that, then Chicago should be there. Im really liking it so far. Used Spare Parts to change animations to fast and its awesome. Love how you can have a different wallpaper for each screen, and also four private workspaces. It takes a little bit to figure out, but I am really impressed. You can also remove the weather and clock and use your beautiful widgets or whatever clock/weather that you normally use. Now if I can figure out a way to edit the icons or they fix that, I will be really impressed.
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Guys. If you need to find your city and it's not in the list, simply go to Settings for the Clock & Weather Widget, click "Add Custom City", and type in your ZIP Code. The clock becomes a bit funky but after a bit of messing around, you should be able to get it to run nicely.
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Actually, widget size can be resized on some by clicking the little "i" button. I agree the app drawer is lame; the weather widget needs work (doesn't even have Chicago!). But give it some time. It doesn't even have a v1.0 yet.
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I was thinking the same thing as I was setting up my home screens in Spanish Class. Chi-Town represent!
No one has put yet that you can scroll through "workspaces" with the dock by dragging it left or right. Press home or pinch-to-zoom out to look at the sense style overview, then hold on a screen to go into add/delete screen mode. And there was something else that I can't remember right now lol.
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I just downloaded this, and I like it so far. I like the clean look and feel to it. I have LP+ and will try this out for a couple of days to see it I like it.
I did find Green Bay in the weather, but after I set the weather to GB, the clock time is way off.
[QUOTE=Original Android
Thanks! Got it to work!
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When you set location you need to set your time zone.
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whats YMMV?
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whats YMMV?
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Your mileage may very
Its regina not your phone
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This stock weather app stinks.
The most important thing to me is to see live radar and satellite, but with this stock app you have to navigate way too much, and then it is only the size of half the screen, (like looking at my iphone). which weather apps are you folks using, cause clearly this one stinks.
Yahoo weather or nice weather
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I'm using Weatherbug Elite. It works well and has all the features you mentioned.
I got wearherbug elite when it was amazon app of the day a long time ago and haven't used anything since
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thx, I will go have a look.
any other replies welcome
weather apps
weatherbug elite is good, but IMO, the most versatile weather app is eweather HD..it has widgets for everything (satellite and radar and they are customizable..ie you can layer alerts on them). It isn't the most user-friendly but it's widgets are worth the curve. PYKL3 and Radarscope are the best pure radar apps, but don't have widgets.
1weather has probably the best interface.
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weatherbug elite is good, but IMO, the most versatile weather app is eweather HD..it has widgets for everything (satellite and radar and they are customizable..ie you can layer alerts on them). It isn't the most user-friendly but it's widgets are worth the curve. PYKL3 and Radarscope are the best pure radar apps, but don't have widgets.
1weather has probably the best interface.
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thanks, I will give eweather a look.
I am a long time user of radar scope, even convinced my entire police department to get it, but that was when I was with apple.
Now I am on android and it's $29.99 in the play store (I don't wanna pay them twice after all the parading I did for them)
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thanks, I will give eweather a look.
I am a long time user of radar scope, even convinced my entire police department to get it, but that was when I was with apple.
Now I am on android and it's $29.99 in the play store (I don't wanna pay them twice after all the parading I did for them)
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I can understand that, but I just looked at the play store and it shows 9.99 for me (after logging out that is and on my note 3). I don't think I would pay 29.99, but I have it for my wife iphone and my android devices, so to me it's worth 10 on each device. Also take a look at PYKL3, it's 9.99 too, and has a lot of funtcionality but it isn't as polished as radarscope.
an email can't hurt
Hey, send radar scope an email tell them about some of the 'good press' you've given them. You might not even get a reply, but it can't hurt. I've noticed __ with some other companies __ that some of these newer and smaller companies care about their customers, and will do things to help
can't hurt
good luck
dave
XiphoneUzer said:
thanks, I will give eweather a look.
I am a long time user of radar scope, even convinced my entire police department to get it, but that was when I was with apple.
Now I am on android and it's $29.99 in the play store (I don't wanna pay them twice after all the parading I did for them)
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another option
Intellicast is good too and if you are into widgets you can try websnap (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.web2mine.wg01.license&hl=en). There is a free trial version to play with.
I use websnap to pull down pieces of pages from accuweather as widgets. The biggest image on this screen shot is websnap pulling from accuweathers website. The bottom graph ia from an app called weatherbomb. You can also use websnap to pull other parts of pages too, not just weather.
Mycast is exactly what you're looking for.
I use hd widgets
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I use hd widgets
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Just googled it and watched the vid, looks cool, thx.
Im trying to avoid buying anything until im sure of what I wanna do though, (don't want a whole bunch of paid apps not being used)
I'm another Yahoo Weather user. It looks beautiful. I'm usually more likely to just use Google Now, though, whether it be a widget on my homescreen or me just opening the search. It's pretty clean looking and easy!
I use 1weather for forecasts, alerts and widgets (which are awesome). For radar I use MyRadar...
Together both these apps met my needs!
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I use 1weather for forecasts, alerts and widgets (which are awesome). For radar I use MyRadar...
Together both these apps met my needs!
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Thx, Nice!
Lots of great alternatives, keep them coming, (someone should make this a sticky)
I've been searching around and I found a big thread on XDA with all the RRO Layers and Nav bars, but I haven't found a dedicated area outside of a Google+ page for Zooper widgets in .zw form for download. Is there a master thread or large thread where these are usually posted ?
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I've been searching around and I found a big thread on XDA with all the RRO Layers and Nav bars, but I haven't found a dedicated area outside of a Google+ page for Zooper widgets in .zw form for download. Is there a master thread or large thread where these are usually posted ?
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Just a heads up: Zooper is "abandonware"
You can still use it, but it's no longer supported by anyone official. What does that mean on a practical basis?
No updates. So when the only reasonably accurate provider of weather data available for Zooper (Yahoo) changes its API, Zooper is not updated to follow suit, and you're left with no weather info worth a damn.
Replacement recommendation:
KWGT
Good luck!
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Just a heads up: Zooper is "abandonware"
You can still use it, but it's no longer supported by anyone official. What does that mean on a practical basis?
No updates. So when the only reasonably accurate provider of weather data available for Zooper (Yahoo) changes its API, Zooper is not updated to follow suit, and you're left with no weather info worth a damn.
Replacement recommendation:
KWGT
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Ao zooper is not used anymore? I never used it in the past but I just started looks like I'm late to the party. LOL. this was hot new stuff in 2013 when I first started using android. I noticed the yahoo weather doesn't work. Is KWGT like zooper?
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Ao zooper is not used anymore? I never used it in the past but I just started looks like I'm late to the party. LOL. this was hot new stuff in 2013 when I first started using android. I noticed the yahoo weather doesn't work. Is KWGT like zooper?
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Very very much. I have a Zooper widget on the Play store, and have converted my designs to KWGT with little difficulty.
Best part: weather info is from weather.com, which is more accurate than Yahoo!
bought it myself few weeks back and realized 3 days later that its totally worthless not to mention for the widgets to actually work you need to buy other apps as well... total rip-off!
i know that this is not an answer to the OP but posting it so others wont waste their money.
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bought it myself few weeks back and realized 3 days later that its totally worthless not to mention for the widgets to actually work you need to buy other apps as well... total rip-off!
i know that this is not an answer to the OP but posting it so others wont waste their money.
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I get it. My storefront on Play clearly states you must purchase Zooper Pro for my widgets to work.
I'm debating whether or not to add text to my storefront indicating that Yahoo weather info is not available any longer on Zooper. Part of me wants to insert such a warning, the other part says it's not my responsibility to make statements on behalf of Zooper.
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I get it. My storefront on Play clearly states you must purchase Zooper Pro for my widgets to work.
I'm debating whether or not to add text to my storefront indicating that Yahoo weather info is not available any longer on Zooper. Part of me wants to insert such a warning, the other part says it's not my responsibility to make statements on behalf of Zooper.
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The weather issue seems easy enough to fix in the code, I wonder why Zooper dosen't fix it ? It looks like Zooper had an update March 16 ? What do you sell on Playstore ?
woomera said:
bought it myself few weeks back and realized 3 days later that its totally worthless not to mention for the widgets to actually work you need to buy other apps as well... total rip-off!
i know that this is not an answer to the OP but posting it so others wont waste their money.
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What did you buy ? KWGT ?
Was playing around with KLWP and KWGT during my lunch break. I didn't look at the tutorial videos, but it looks very confusing and complicated and a lot to take in. I may need to set aside some time where I can go over it again slowly.
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Was playing around with KLWP and KWGT during my lunch break. I didn't look at the tutorial videos, but it looks very confusing and complicated and a lot to take in. I may need to set aside some time where I can go over it again slowly.
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KWGT isn't more difficult to use than Zooper. I just switched my main clock widget and made a few changes in less than 5 minutes.
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KWGT isn't more difficult to use than Zooper. I just switched my main clock widget and made a few changes in less than 5 minutes.
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Did you re-create your widget or were you able to upload it ? I have a widget that was pre-made in Zooper I'm not sure how to make and I'd like to try and transfer it to KWGT. I probably just need to mess around with it more.
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The weather issue seems easy enough to fix in the code, I wonder why Zooper dosen't fix it ? It looks like Zooper had an update March 16 ? What do you sell on Playstore ?
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Yeah, it SHOULD be an easy fix. But that's assuming there's someone around to fix it... And from what I've pieced together online, there isn't. By the way, according to the Play store, the last update is March 11, 2015.
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Did you re-create your widget or were you able to upload it ? I have a widget that was pre-made in Zooper I'm not sure how to make and I'd like to try and transfer it to KWGT. I probably just need to mess around with it more.
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I'm not going to speak for Seabro, but I recreated my widgets, I didn't upload them because KWGT does some things quite differently under the hood (scaling, positioning and text handling, so forth). There's some things that Zooper does better, but I feel KWGT does more things. Just my opinion.
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Zooper but im disappointed.
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Did you re-create your widget or were you able to upload it ? I have a widget that was pre-made in Zooper I'm not sure how to make and I'd like to try and transfer it to KWGT. I probably just need to mess around with it more.
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Yeah, I recreated the widget. KWGT is pretty easy to use once you get used to it.