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Hello,
After 'Pure calendar' and 'Weather forecast', I am ready to create a new widget.
But I don't have any idea of 'WHAT'.
What widget really miss you ?
Conditions :
- it should NOT exist on market.
- I should be able to sell it on the market (can't sell small widget, like memory, or pictures)
- it will be free during beta testing, paid after
- winning idea will have widget for free
Winning ideas :
+++ messaging widget (gmail + SMS + email)
+++ bookmark widget with sync with mobile browser & xmarks
Remaing ideas :
++ task widget
+ dock to put more app icons into one cell
+ dialer widget
+ photo galery with flicker integration
+ power control widget
+ stock market
Ideas not developed :
- email/SMS/MMS widget >>> problem, there is no gmail API ! >>> solution found !!!!!!!!
Some kind of system montior widget would be great. ie, something that would show: CPU frequency, CPU load, swap usage, battery level, disk usage on fat + ext...
I don't know about other people, but I normally check this stuff from the terminal, so it would be nice to have a widget.
AdrianK said:
Some kind of system montior widget would be great. ie, something that would show: CPU frequency, CPU load, swap usage, battery level, disk usage on fat + ext...
I don't know about other people, but I normally check this stuff from the terminal, so it would be nice to have a widget.
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that type of 'meter' already exist on market I think.
koxx said:
that type of 'meter' already exist on market I think.
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Oh really? There might be, but I was thinking of one with root users in mind, so we could check our ext's, CPU freq ect. Just an idea...
I think a email or text widget like the one in the hero roms
M..N said:
I think a email or text widget like the one in the hero roms
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oh yeah that would be great too.
super social net widget
I would suggest an integrated Twitter/Facebook/GTalk(Jabber)/SMS-MMS widget where you can see everything in one location (maybe tab based or mixed with a label of some sort).
If tabbed, the number of new messages could be part of the tab label or added to the notification bar.
If everything shows in same window, then touching a message could either allow the user to respond or open the appropriate app.
Could be enhanced later with LinkedIn, Plaxo, etc. based on what people want.
Hummmm ... good idea an email widget.
Does it exist only on Hero now ?
efreese said:
I would suggest an integrated Twitter/Facebook/GTalk(Jabber)/SMS-MMS widget where you can see everything in one location (maybe tab based or mixed with a label of some sort).
If tabbed, the number of new messages could be part of the tab label or added to the notification bar.
If everything shows in same window, then touching a message could either allow the user to respond or open the appropriate app.
Could be enhanced later with LinkedIn, Plaxo, etc. based on what people want.
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Main problem with this are API.
Most API have restrictions for commercial uses... so, to use thoses API, you have to create your software as 'free'... This is not my goal.
I believe it does as I can't see it anywhere else
well it's not really a widget i'm missing. but a program to auto end and auto-start other programs at specific times would be great
so one could auto-end k-9 at 23:00, have a good night's sleep and have it autostart at 7:00 to read all the new mails...
athurdent said:
well it's not really a widget i'm missing. but a program to auto end and auto-start other programs at specific times would be great
so one could auto-end k-9 at 23:00, have a good night's sleep and have it autostart at 7:00 to read all the new mails...
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I believe that this is promised for a future release of Locale
M..N said:
I think a email or text widget like the one in the hero roms
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You could try and make a bookmark widget like the one in hero
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I cant really think of anything that isnt in the market. but i know of a few things that i think are in the market, but can be done better...
personally, i liked the WM 6.2 screen where you had a scrolling "widget" that you could use to place direct call shortcuts... id love to see a android version of that...
the ones out there are ok, but they arent as clean looking as the WM take on it... from what ive seen of your work, you are the person that i think could create something like what im thinking of...
the one on the hero is fine, but, i even think its a bit clunky...
M..N said:
You could try and make a bookmark widget like the one in hero
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web pages bookmarks ?
kwkard said:
I would really like to have a dialer widget. I hate the default behavior that the green call button brings up the call log instead of the dialer. In fact, I would be quite happy if the built-in dialer could be made into a widget. I imagine it would take up an entire home screen but I'm fine with that.
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I think it already exist
evolarius said:
I cant really think of anything that isnt in the market. but i know of a few things that i think are in the market, but can be done better...
personally, i liked the WM 6.2 screen where you had a scrolling "widget" that you could use to place direct call shortcuts... id love to see a android version of that...
the ones out there are ok, but they arent as clean looking as the WM take on it... from what ive seen of your work, you are the person that i think could create something like what im thinking of...
the one on the hero is fine, but, i even think its a bit clunky...
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fluent scrolling is impossible with current SDK. You have to simulate scrolling with buttons ... not very fun.
evolarius said:
the ones out there are ok, but they arent as clean looking as the WM take on it... from what ive seen of your work, you are the person that i think could create something like what im thinking of...
the one on the hero is fine, but, i even think its a bit clunky...
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No he can't. Just because there is no way on normal android launcher to have a scrolling widget.
Yes a bookmark widget
fluent scrolling is impossible with current SDK. You have to simulate scrolling with buttons ... not very fun.
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Even then, i think it can be done better...
Anybody have the apk for fancy widget?
Yes, I do. I'm not at home right now, and I'm not sure when I will be home. I'm on a short vacation and the apk file is on my desktop computer at home. I found it on the internet if you want to look for it, or you can wait until I get back home (which will be Monday morning--I think).
I tried searching for it on google, but I think all of sites were forced to take it down due to HTC's C&D.
I love the look of Fancy Widget, but I'm constantly having a problem with the time not updating. The task is not being killed since it's on my task killer's ignore list. It seems to happen at random times...sometimes while the phone is in standby, other times while in use. Is there a solution for this?
TeeJay3800 said:
I love the look of Fancy Widget, but I'm constantly having a problem with the time not updating. The task is not being killed since it's on my task killer's ignore list. It seems to happen at random times...sometimes while the phone is in standby, other times while in use. Is there a solution for this?
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I am having the Eact same problem w/ Beautiful Widget Its freezes up and then fc's. I am was just about to test Fancy and see if that was better.. Im running CM5
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I am having the Eact same problem w/ Beautiful Widget Its freezes up and then fc's. I am was just about to test Fancy and see if that was better.. Im running CM5
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It's funny you say that because BW has always worked perfectly for me, and for that reason I switched back to it. That's fine with me because I just saw a skin I really like, and I e-mailed the dev to see if he could modify it slightly. He cooperated and now BW looks very very close to the Sense look (other than the weather icon being on the right rather than centered).
This is the best HTC Sense-like clock. It looks even better than Weather Widget with h7c skin, but has this strange update issue, when I have to wait sometimes for clock to update.
BTW It shows us how Market is NOT open and without control . It's better than AppStore and we can always use *.apk, but it's sad that if some app isn't good for hTC for example, they simply delete it.
It wasn't deleted, HTC asked the developer to take it down I beleive. It was taken down by their choice from what I read, and probably a good idea. It was so similar to the HTC one, I'm sure they have rights on it
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BTW It shows us how Market is NOT open and without control .
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The Market never claimed to be open or without control, its just a heck of a lot less demanding/strict than the app store... The underlying code for Android is open but anything that manufacturers or devs add to the code itself (IE: Sense UI, Motoblur etc...) along with the apps on the market, are proprietary and therefore NOT open (unless otherwise stated).
no weather info is displayed on v1.2.4
How do you check if there is no virus or malware (calling international numbers i.e.) in any of these files? Is there any other way to check this, besides blind trust?
grandmasterb66 said:
How do you check if there is no virus or malware (calling international numbers i.e.) in any of these files? Is there any other way to check this, besides blind trust?
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Should say in manifest (request privileges) if it can make phone calls -- which this app only asks for GPS & Internet access.
grandmasterb66 said:
How do you check if there is no virus or malware (calling international numbers i.e.) in any of these files? Is there any other way to check this, besides blind trust?
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Try Virustotal.
^^ Best site for scanning files for viruses, I use it all the time. Your welcome..
Can anybody confirm that this works on G1?
frankencat said:
Can anybody confirm that this works on G1?
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It's posted in the G1 forum. What makes you think it wouldn't? I personally had an issue with the time freezing constantly, but others haven't reported the same thing.
for me its working absoutely file no problem at all
Been digging online and through the forums with no luck...can somone post up the old version of Fancy Widget??
Nevermind...guess they don't allow it on here. If anyone can PM me it, that'd be awesome...
Is it possible to have folders in the applications part of the touchwiz? I have already filled 8 screens with silly apps and I have difficulties finding what I want. (And I do not want to put stuff in my home screens).
Is this fixed in other roms?
I could not find any way to create a folder in the application launcher, I could of course on the home screen, so that is my best solution to the problem.
But I would like to see one being able to do what you prupose.
I run the JFB firmware.
FrezoreR said:
I could not find any way to create a folder in the application launcher, I could of course on the home screen, so that is my best solution to the problem.
But I would like to see one being able to do what you prupose.
I run the JFB firmware.
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Thanks. Btw, I understand that the JFB = JF12 version. Have you seen any (substantial) differences between this and JF3?
thanks
Touchwiz 4 and newer allows you to make folders within the apps drawer
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Hello Xoomers,
I have a nearly working on a build of Android Agenda Widget which will support Honeycombs native scrolling and I need a tester or two who don't mind things looking weird/crashing and can send me log files.
Grab it from my site: http://www.androidagendawidget.com/development
Known issues:
It seems the Honeycomb launcher does some fairly furious caching of views. Until I figure out how to get around this you may have to tap the refresh button to fix the look of th widget (especially after changing row styles).
EDIT: This is now on the market
aabunali[at]gmail.com
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pm'd you... looking forward to trying it out
Thanks guys. Looks like it works I just need to clean up a bit so it isn't ugly
I have enough testers for the short term, I will report back here when I have a stable build in case anyone else is looking for a more complicated scrolling agenda!
This is fairly functional now, grab it from my site (http://www.androidagendawidget.com/development) and provide some feedback
Very nice. My only issue is I can't get it to open the calendar upon tapping on the date. Xoom.
Which date? The one at the top or the one in with the events?
Tap on top date. Doesn't open calendar. Tap on event date opens event correctly.
Oh, you need to adjust settings->buttons and toolbars->date click override
Tried that prior to posting. No dice!
Hrm, can you shoot me a log of you opening the main calendar application so I can see what the difference in calls to the applications is? roflharrison at gmail is the email address.
I downloaded the version and during setup it threw up errors about file: android asset html files nor being found with info on customize.html etc 3 errors came up for 3 of the next button presses... Perhaps Honeycomb had moved these items?
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I downloaded the version and during setup it threw up errors about file: android asset html files nor being found with info on customize.html etc 3 errors came up for 3 of the next button presses... Perhaps Honeycomb had moved these items?
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Possibly. Were the errors on the page (these are html pages) or popup force closes?
setup
They were errors inside the setup process brought on by the app navigating pages in the broader that should be included in android .. indicating a 404 error, the sweep is trying to display them as part of the setup that are not being found..
PS Unrooted virgin Xoom
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Honeycomb might be treating assets differently so my html viewer might be broken. You aren't missing much on those pages however I will take a look at this and see if I can fix it.
I believe I have fixed the scrolling and display issues with the widget, If anyone has a chance to test I am particularly interested in "date row" view style.
Also if anyone can provide more feedback on the date click problem mentioned earlier?
Grab it from my site.
roflharrison said:
I believe I have fixed the scrolling and display issues with the widget, If anyone has a chance to test I am particularly interested in "date row" view style.
Also if anyone can provide more feedback on the date click problem mentioned earlier?
Grab it from my site.
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I am getting nothing showing in the widget except "no events" after updating to this.
I guess I broke it instead of fixing it, could you please try other other row styles and let me know if any work?
roflharrison said:
I guess I broke it instead of fixing it, could you please try other other row styles and let me know if any work?
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Turned off scrollable widget setting and now I see my items but only ones that will fit in the widget size.
Investigating....
When you search google or any other search engine for the g-tablet, you get images of the gtab with a weather app on it... does anyone know what the hell that app is called? Is it part of tapntap? I played with it for about 10 mins before I flashed Vegan and have been trying to find a good weather/dashboard app (something that shows current weather/news/missed emails/yada yada ;D
Does anyone know? Or can you point me to a good "dashboard" app that has the features mentioned above. I'm willing to pay, doesn't have to be a freebie. I've searched the marketplace high and low and can't find anything that does that...or I'm not searching under the right tools.
Thanks in advance!
Tim
I flashed vegan right after I got mine, and I just use a set of beautiful widgets to make my homescreen the way I want it. It has time and weather, and I have a page just for facebox and twitter. No idea how to take screenshots, else I'd post a few.
That image is the "dashboard" that is the Tap'n'tap UI when not in classic mode. I've never used any of the TNT Lite ROMs which I understand are stripped down and improved versions of the Tap'n'tap ROM but I absolutely hated the stock ROM and the Tap'n'tap UI during the blissfully brief period I use it.
ntnunk said:
That image is the "dashboard" that is the Tap'n'tap UI when not in classic mode.
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No, the "dashboard" has a weather area, a news area, and an analog clock. However, tapping on the weather area will take you to the pictured app.
The image is of the Tapntap weather app