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While thousands of apps have been released since Android's release, there have been relatively few widgets created (for obvious reasons). However, some do exist, and when mixed in with all of the fart apps and soundboards, it can be quite difficult to catch new ones. That being said, a thread tracking all released widgets could probably be beneficial to many. I'll try to update this first post with others' comments as more widgets are released, so feel free to share any I may have missed, or that have just come out.
Also, the widgets should be mainly universal, able to work on multiple homes. If a widget is only intended for, say, aHome, please include that information. Listing dimensions would also be nice.
So far:
Analog clock: The one from 1.0 (2 x 2)
aniCalendar*: A monthly calendar, that can be changed to a clock, as well. Available for $.99 on the Market, but definitely worth the price (2 x 2).
BBC News Widget*: Self-explanatory; gives recent news. When clicked, gives more news stories (1 x 4).
Calendar: One of my favorite; shows upcoming appointment times and locations from your Google Calendar. Also displays the day of the week and the date (2 x 2).
Forecast*: A great little widget that shows the day's high, low, and type of weather (sunny, rainy, etc.). When clicked, provides a forecast for the next few days right on the home screen (1 x 1; larger 2 x 1 version available).
Music: Extremely useful; allows you to play/plause/skip/previous right from the home screen (1 x 4).
Picture frame: The one from 1.0; self-explanatory (2 x 2).
Quick calendar*: While the app is excellent, the widget definitely needs polishing. Currently, places a small block on your home screen showing your next couple appointments. Available after downloading the Quick Calendar app (2 x 2, I believe).
Retro clock*: A digital clock with a retro look (2 x 2).
Search: The one from 1.0; self-explanatory (1 x 4).
Sticky note*: Great widget; appears as an icon of a sticky note (why there is a push-pin alludes me). Once clicked, the widget expands showing you a larger note, which can be edited quite easily (1 x 1).
Weather: Provides some details regarding the day's weather (1 x 4).
Yahoo News*: Very similar to BBC news, but of course, from a different news source (1 x 4).
* Available for download in Market.
Some more, thanks to q426669:
q426669 said:
All links are to Cyrket.com.
Battery Widget (1x1)
Weather widget (2x1 - Shows CURRENT temp, downloads google weather images)
Engadget News
Dilbert Widget (1x3)
Neatorma News
Webcam
Earthquake!
Gizmodo News
Battery Widget #2
As far as I know that's all of em released at this time. No 3rd party (marketless) widgets included.
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It would be handy if you included links to the applications that are not on the market.
Besides that: Thanks
All links are to Cyrket.com.
Battery Widget (1x1)
Weather widget (2x1 - Shows CURRENT temp, downloads google weather images)
Engadget News
Dilbert Widget (1x3)
Neatorma News
Webcam
Earthquake!
Gizmodo News
Battery Widget #2
As far as I know that's all of em released at this time. No 3rd party (marketless) widgets included.
Engadget news: all news widgets by same author. size(1x4) click widget to get more artlicle info, also leads to website
BBC news: same
Gizmodo news: same
Yahoo news: same
earthquake: havnt tried the widget yet but app is cool, shows notifications of earthquakes around the world
you didn't mention the best thing about Bratag's excellent Sticky Note widget
When you press the camera button while either the title or note body field is selected (when editing or creating a sticky), it performs a voice-to-text conversion so you speak your sticky notes into the phone instead of typing. Very cool.
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It would be handy if you included links to the applications that are not on the market.
Besides that: Thanks
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The ones not provided in the market are all, I believe, part of the 1.5 firmware. I run dxTop, and they are all available without downloading anything else. Thus, they should be available with the standard Home. I'm not sure about aHome or OpenHome.
ei8htohms said:
When you press the camera button while either the title or note body field is selected (when editing or creating a sticky), it performs a voice-to-text conversion so you speak your sticky notes into the phone instead of typing. Very cool.
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This doesn't seem to be working for me. Are you holding the camera button down while speaking?
Binary Clock
dxtop weather widget
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.android.dxtop.widget.weather
SD Card Memory Widget
Terrorism Threat Level Widget
Giu Battery Widget
Internal Memory Widget
WikiArticle Widget
FML Widget
jay652 said:
This doesn't seem to be working for me. Are you holding the camera button down while speaking?
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just tap it, then it should pop right up
ei8htohms said:
When you press the camera button while either the title or note body field is selected (when editing or creating a sticky), it performs a voice-to-text conversion so you speak your sticky notes into the phone instead of typing. Very cool.
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This is awesome I like the app that much more now.
savethechicken said:
This is awesome I like the app that much more now.
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no bull.. thats cool
WifiToggle is very nice. There is/was also another widget by this company, Rounded Labs, which toggles your ringer between silent, vibrate and on. I couldn't find it on cyrket though.
Brightness Toggle Widget
Thanks for the tip. With the improved security for widgets, I see new ones popping up every day now (Google's Android market).
The guys you mentioned added a Brightness Toggle Widget as well. If only I could add these 1x1 widgets to folders...
Here's the Ringer Toggle Widget by the way.
If you can't find Cyrket stuff, try again later, I suspect there might be performance issues. The traffic is probably getting impressive and increasing every day...
Thanks JJah. These widgets are great. The guys at rounded labs need to add a fourth one for gps or something so I have a complete row. I agree about putting them in a folder too. Another option that would be cool would be the ability to edit the colors. I like the blue, but I also like to switch wallpapers and it looked kind of weird with a bright red bg.
Simple Widget Pack
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Simple Widget Pack
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thanks for posting about my SimpleWidgetPack, I just thought i would mention the widget sizes and other information here for anyone interested
Simple Time - 2x1, display the current time, option for 12 or 24 hour clock
Simple Date - 2x1, display the current date in the form "XXX YY" where XXX is the first 3 letters of the month and YY is the numerical date
Simple Battery - 1x1, display the current battery charge as a percentage
Simple Temperature - 1x1, displays the current temperature as a degree, uses Google weather api to retrieve temperature based off of the location that you enter. Options for update interval time, and farenheit/celsius
All four widgets have options to change the text color and background color.
The application is available through the Android Market for $0.99
Ill promote my own widgets
* TimerWidget (1x1):
a timer that can be set in minutes... progress will be shown in a modern hourglass on the homescreen and it will vibrate/ring when the time is elapsed )
* VolumeWidget (1x1):
a widget thats shows the current ring mode ( vibrate / silent /ring ) and the volume. By clicking on the widget you can set the ring mode and the volume with a slider
Both can be downloaded in the market in Applications \ Productivity
Both widgets are totally free, but include a banner on their settings screen.
you what would great? if there was an XDA-Dream widget
I can't seem to find three default android clock widget and the market us flooded with crap. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Unfortunately Samsung didn't include any stock Android clock widgets. They did include the Nexus One live wallpaper though, so go figure. I recommend throwing down for Beautiful Widgets, it's like $1.90 and can do amazing things.
"Weather and toggle widget" $1.99.
I've always liked the "Sense" flip clock and this is satisfies my taste.
I use one that's just called Digital Clock Widget by Maize. Just a really simple digital time with the day under it. Can be a 1x2 or a 1x4 widget. Not TOO much customization, but it definitely does the job well.
What's wrong with the Samsung Clock Widget that comes with the phone?
I am using Retro Clock.
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"Weather and toggle widget" $1.99.
I've always liked the "Sense" flip clock and this is satisfies my taste.
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I really like this app too, plus it has many downloadable skins you can get for the clock and weather.
Fancy Widget is nice and free (but i can't post a link since i'm a newbie)
lol, no one knows how to get the default clock widget. I'm surprised. To me that was one of the trademarks of android. That big clock widget on the G1
And has anyone figured out how to remove the clock from the status bar on the top? I did a search, but nothing turned up. . .
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And has anyone figured out how to remove the clock from the status bar on the top? I did a search, but nothing turned up. . .
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You need to wait for Froyo.
caelestis2 said:
I can't seem to find three default android clock widget and the market us flooded with crap. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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predator clock widget 1x4 setting is awesome .u can change colors to match ur wallpapers very cool ul love it and its free in the market
It is is not a simple clock widget, but Fancy Widget Pro is da bomb!
I use "animated analog clock" by DNS project. It has seconds hand! 99% of clocks have no seconds! Is it really that hard to makes clock shows seconds??
I like Simi Clock Widget. Clean appearance, can launch multiple apps by tapping, and its free.
Fancy Widget Pro is the best out there for clock and weather. Has so many skins and new ones every day!
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I use "animated analog clock" by DNS project. It has seconds hand! 99% of clocks have no seconds! Is it really that hard to makes clock shows seconds??
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I've been looking for a Android digital clock with "seconds" since I left WM Not sure why we don't have any....
I love launcher pro (i just bought the paid version), but i miss the sense clock and music widgets.
I know about beautiful widgets, but how comparable is it to the sense weather/clock widget?
Also, what's a replacement music widget that allows FF/play/RW/ and shows album art?
Any help appreciated!
I missed the sense clock too but beautiful widgets has a lot of clock and weather skins. I got one that matched more with my theme.
I use doubletwist for my music player. They only have a small widget but they are going to release a bigger widget. MusicGo has a similar music widget as htc but that is foreign.
I use Weather & Toggle Widget for my Sense clock replacement. I used to use Pure Music Widget for the music widget. I don't know if Beautiful Widgets has animated weather like the Sense clock/weather widget but Weather & Toggle Widget does. If you flash a CM ROM they have a few music widgets to choose from with album art and play controls too. That's what I use now.
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I missed the sense clock too but beautiful widgets has a lot of clock and weather skins. I got one that matched more with my theme.
I use doubletwist for my music player. They only have a small widget but they are going to release a bigger widget. MusicGo has a similar music widget as htc but that is foreign.
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i was using launcherpro plus for awhile too, i think i was using fancy widget. but i before i bought launcherpro plus i was checking out there forums over there and found this from the creater of launcherpro:
http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2392
just thought id share
Just follow BSDADON. It is possible. Lookie here.
http://development.piratemedia.tv/
Music Mod 1.8 (Froyo Only) by Eliot Stocker (@eliotstocker)
Music Mod V1.8 is out now on the Android Market
Features:
Twitter #Nowplaying integration
Gesture Support
Notification Pull down Text Color selection.
Fullscreen Nowplaying Screen
5 Widgets of different size.
Market Link:
market://search?q=pname:com.piratemedia.musicmod
Usage info:
Getting to Playlist:
Simply click the Album art in the now playing screen, (Portrait only, a bug fix will be out shortly to fix this in landscape view)
Tweet #nowplaying: when in now playing screen press menu, then click more, and click Tweet #Nowplaying. this will take you into ‘twitter for android’ if it is installed. with the message already filled in, with song name and artist. (universal [...]
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Animated Weather for Android - Weather forecast application. The exquisitely realistic video effects of cloudiness, rain and snow provide the vivid sensation of current or future weather conditions for more than 50000 locations over the world.
http://www.weather-android.com/
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY9qkmzbBy4
Have you looked at beautiful weather widget ?
yes beautiful widgets, it doesnt have a weather app that nice but it has themeable widgets and weather animations like sense ui on htc, it also has a live walpaper that is like the stock android live paper with the grass that sways and sky that changes with the time of day but adds in a rising sun and moon and weather acording to the report so you will have the weather in the background and when you unlock the p-hone you can have it in the foreground as well untill you touch the screen.
Bring your weather experience to the next level with the most beautiful and convenient weather app, ever.
Weather Now is a fabulous combination of weather live wallpaper, which animates local weather, time of day and season on ANY custom background, and a set of beautiful weather widgets!
Based on an original idea, Weather Now lets you pick image from your gallery (or use one of embedded images) and put animation of your current weather right over it on your home screen. Easy-to-setup, customizable and beautiful weather widgets will also bring you all local weather info you need, including detailed weather conditions and 5-days forecast.
Gorgeous Weather Live Wallpaper
★ Local or custom weather animations over any image from your gallery
★ Animated sun, moon, rain, snow, stars, clouds, lightning, fog and frost
★ Stunning weather effects like raindrops or snowflakes on screen
★ Time of day, seasons and color animations
★ Cool color effects and photo filters like winter, spring, summer, autumn, sepia, b&w and neon
★ Manual control of brightness, contrast, saturation and hue
★ Embedded image gallery
★ Slideshow
★ Special 3D panoramic mode
★ Easy-to-use settings with interactive preview
★ Daydream support
★ More features inside!
Beautiful Weather Widgets
★ Customizable backgrounds, colors and fonts
★ Customizable units, formats and application shortcuts
★ Home screen and lock screen layouts
★ Easy-to-use settings with interactive preview
★ Customizable weather update interval
★ Several different weather providers (including AccuWeather and Weather Underground)
Weather forecast
★ Current weather conditions, RealFeel, high and low temp
★ Today, tonight and tomorrow predictions
★ Humidity, Pressure, Precipitation, UV, Wind Speed and Direction information
★ Sunset and Sunrise information
★ 5-days forecast
All weather effects can be tuned for your taste. Clouds, snow and rain depend on current wind speed and direction. Moon shows actual moon phase.
You can choose between real weather conditions or pick whatever you want right now. You can easily create your own live wallpapers such as snowfalls, rainstorms, lightning storms, frosted windows, rainy screens, sunny days with delighted sun-rays and so on.
All effects and animations can be applied to ANY image from your gallery, whether it is a real photo or your favorite wallpaper. Full HD ready, no quality loss!
Weather Now works well on both phone and tablet devices, uses low system resources and conserves your battery life!
Available on Google Play for just $2.99!
Bought it, nice. "?" for weather icon when "cloudy"?
Developer responded immediately. Update coming later tonight. Nice app, accurate data, smooth transitions.
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augie7107 said:
Bought it, nice. "?" for weather icon when "cloudy"?
Developer responded immediately. Update coming later tonight. Nice app, accurate data, smooth transitions.
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Thanks, cloudy icon fixed, update is available. Was a little sleepy yesterday
What's up guys? We're constantly working on weekly updates, your suggestions are always welcome.
Current weekly update will include:
Boldify hours style for Widget (JellyBean 4.2)
Lockscreen Widgets support
Option to control Widget's clock action
Improved performance and appearance of lightning animation
Option to control sun saturation
You can get Weather Screen on Google Play here!
Current weekly update!
Fixed occasional sun disappearing problems
Minor UI fixes (including icon for tablets)
Removed SD support (widgets not working when installed on SD)
Bold hours clock fonts
New Clock only widget
Lock Screen widgets (Android 4.2+ only)
Customizable Clock app
Option to control sun saturation (from white to colorful)
Various fixes and improvements
You can get Weather Screen on Google Play here!
Weekly update:
Moon phases
New clouds
Various visual improvements
Fixed SGS4 issue
Hello, it could be nice to be able to use multiple pictures, and have it changed depending on the weather (and still keeping your weather animation)
for example, the ASUS tree wallpaper have multiple versions, it could be cool to be able to uses them and put your effects on top.
Regards
I don't really use live wallpapers...but love this one!
Quick question...how does the battery setting work? I have set it at 0% and I can't see any difference from having it at default.
Battery backup
I like using live wallpapers due to bat3 drainage. But i had 2 giv dis a shot and its cool though i'll suggest in making it lighter to save Ram space and minise battery usage.
@exisapps
Hey! Just what I'm looking for.
I have a suggestion that would make this a much better widget.
It seems like you have already implemented local relative day/night, weather and seasonal effects.
BUT... What would make this a sure winner would be to implement a holiday season conscious widget.
For example, I'm posting this in October, so naturally I'm in the Halloween spirit.... Wouldn't it be nice if I turn on my phone and it greets me with a Halloween themed live wallpaper... Or... Just a set of static wallpapers that I specify. And... would be even BETTER if it CYCLES the images every hour or some configurable interval.
All these themed background/wallpaper would then be filtered over by your day/night effect and also weather.
You can even go off Google's calendar dates for holidays.
Maybe big holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas deserves a MONTH long theme and smaller holidays would span just that day... or a weekend holiday would only last 3 days.(Friday, Saturday, Monday) These day counts would coincide with people's work schedule... I know I get Labor day off, which is usually glued to a weekend.
If there is no specific holiday, then it can simply fall back to your current "generic season" background. No harm, no foul.
All of these should be configurable options, of course.
It's little automations like these that would put people into the festive spirits.
Weather Now 3.0
Weather Now 3.4
★ New widget layouts, backgrounds, colors and fonts
★ New weather icons
★ Battery, alarm clock and wind on some widgets
★ Improved automatic location
★ Fixed widget update issues
★ Added more backgrounds into gallery
This is how it look like!
Seems nice, I'll give it a go !
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Seems nice, I'll give it a go !
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Thanks, hope you enjoy it!
Weather Now 3.4.1
★ Improved automatic location
★ Weather icons are now customizable per widget
Update available, now with full lollipop support. Feedback welcome.
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Hello, is it possible to allow the user to define different wallpapers based on weather or time? For example, I have three nearly identical wallpapers, but one is at night and another have snow on the ground instead of grass, it could be nice to take advantage of that
Regards
dev, are you still here with us?
Sure
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Sure
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i sent you an e-mail, here a pm, but you dont answer...i bought this app weather now, and i want to ask you, why the battery its draining more than before. I see a google service, nlpcollector have a big consumption. Do you know why, or what can i do? thanks