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New app...4 home screens, two tabs and widgets!

Just posted on AndroidCommunity.com. I downloaded the Demo and in love....very cool, check it out
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f12/dxtop-the-android-home-alternative-13673/
http://dxtop.wikidot.com/

Thanks doooshty,
You beat me here
I plan on releasing dxTop : The Android Home Alternative this weekend for $3.99 and I'm hoping to get support from developers to write widgets for it. I posted a how-to and a sample desktop widget that graphs memory usage. These is also a demo version available on the site to try it out and use to develop widgets.
Also, I want to make sure I can sell it. I've read the Apache 2.0 license and it looks like all I need to do is provide a link to the license. Is this correct?
If you have any comments, please let me know what your think!
Cheers,
John

TheMasterBaron said:
Thanks doooshty,
You beat me here
I plan on releasing dxTop : The Android Home Alternative this weekend for $3.99 and I'm hoping to get support from developers to write widgets for it. I posted a how-to and a sample desktop widget that graphs memory usage. These is also a demo version available on the site to try it out and use to develop widgets.
Also, I want to make sure I can sell it. I've read the Apache 2.0 license and it looks like all I need to do is provide a link to the license. Is this correct?
If you have any comments, please let me know what your think!
Cheers,
John
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i think i love you

dom2684 said:
i think i love you
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Demo = Love
I will gladly give you my $4.00...you can even keep the change.
THis is the kind of thing I was expecting to see from android...you sir have delivered.

I just down loaded this it force close after I set it to default. Then my phone wouldn't
Reboot I had to do a wipe.
Qtonix

I've been running the demo now for a couple of hours and I'm convinced this the best app yet for the G1, paid or free. MasterBaron, you sir are a very talented developer and I'll be eagerly awaiting the paid version in the market this weekend. I will also post my 5 star review of dxTop on as many Android forums as I can find. Keep doing what your doing. and thank you so much for extending and greatly improving Android. You have my $4, and I hope you get rich from this app.

I installed it but the "launch" link after installed was greyed out and i couldnt find it in the app list but i could uninstall it from the manage applications settings... what am i doing wrong?

RandumAccess said:
I installed it but the "launch" link after installed was greyed out and i couldnt find it in the app list but i could uninstall it from the manage applications settings... what am i doing wrong?
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It was greyed out for me as well...I hit the home button and it asks what I want to use and I select dxTop

RandumAccess said:
I installed it but the "launch" link after installed was greyed out and i couldnt find it in the app list but i could uninstall it from the manage applications settings... what am i doing wrong?
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Yes, press the home button and it will ask which interface you want to use. DO NOT click "Use by default for this action" until I come up with a recovery mode in case dxTop crashes.

TheMasterBaron said:
Yes, press the home button and it will ask which interface you want to use. DO NOT click "Use by default for this action" until I come up with a recovery mode in case dxTop crashes.
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cool got it, this is awesome! but hows the battery with it? any change that you noticed? and how will we add stuff to the second tab?
I cant wait for full version! will definitely pay!

is it me or does it overwite the clock that u have on the theme?

Did anyone elses wallpaper cropping get messed up? I wasn't able to choose the whole image to crop. I tried with a few standard size wallpapers & 800x600 wallpapers but it never let me choose the whole image.

I tryed again without selecting default and I still had to wipe as I couldn't get off the force close box. After a reboot it it started force closeing again and left the phone unusable.
Qtronix

dom2684 said:
is it me or does it overwite the clock that u have on the theme?
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Yeah it did on mine as well. Great first step much love for the app. I liked it but will wait to see how it comes along before buying. Its simply too young right now but with all the potential it shows will definately buy in the future as it progresses. Great work!

maybe it should be in beta for a bit longer until all the bugs are worked out- beta testers galore..... so idiots on the market don't start voting it down.....

To be honest the only thing that I really would like to have are the widgets and they will be available on the standard Android with 1.5.

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the best app in the market, very very good, i love you, please im from south america and i have no access to paid apps, put a webpage to buy the app, thanks!!

RandumAccess said:
cool got it, this is awesome! but hows the battery with it? any change that you noticed? and how will we add stuff to the second tab?
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Should be no change to battery life.
his tab is your recent/running apps tab, they appear automatically when you run apps.
qtronix said:
I tryed again without selecting default and I still had to wipe as I couldn't get off the force close box. After a reboot it it started force closeing again and left the phone unusable.
Qtronix
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You have to be quick, press the force close, then the home key as fast as you can. I'll work on a recovery option.

I understand you wanting to earn some money from this app, and I would glady pay for it, except that I'm in the UK and we still do not see paid apps.
Did you think if how you could deliver the app to non-US residents?

Wow, this looks extremely promising, very nice indeed!
Please please please make this paid app available outside of the market, somehow, because a lot of us are in countries where paid app support is nowhere to be seen. I figure the UK etc will get in on the paid app action soon enough, but for the rest of us, in countries where the G1 isn't even considered by the operators yet, I fear the wait will be long. Too long.

Genie Widget & App Ported to 1.5

Everyone who has wanted this app and tried to install it, it always failed. But not anymore someone has indeed ported this app to 1.5.
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/302211/genie-widget-for-1-5/

awesome find using now.

ohhh nice!
MOTHY..whats up bro!

SoCalSpecialist said:
ohhh nice!
MOTHY..whats up bro!
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Not much, hows that little girl doing?

getting big!
catch u thru the pm

For the people without accounts over there.

notrock said:
For the people without accounts over there.
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thank you!

To notrock:
Thanks for posting the file here!

ok, without sounding like a noob... what is this?
thanks
EDIT: nevermind... found it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=600959

Oddly enough, after I install this its not showing up in the "Widgets" list? Anyone know why? I've installed it like any other .apk file i've installed before.
Update:Figured it out, the app is called "News And Weather". Sweet application!

Genie Widget - Are sources available somewhere?
Is this kind of backport a "binary hack" or are sources available somewhere?
If yes, were can I find them?
Thanks

Izeltokatl said:
Oddly enough, after I install this its not showing up in the "Widgets" list? Anyone know why? I've installed it like any other .apk file i've installed before.
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Same here, I don't see it either after installation.

I found it under News and Weather in my Android Widgets section. The news and weather icon is fine, but the weather only app displays with font too large to display all the information.

zeropants said:
Same here, I don't see it either after installation.
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ditto. downloaded it but I don't see it.

vnssa906 said:
ditto. downloaded it but I don't see it.
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long press ur screen
under ur "widgets" category select news and weather

I'm new here and have sort of a dumb question. How do you get this onto your Eris? I mean since you can't install from sd card without root right?
edit: Nevermind. I had a hunch that if I downloaded it onto my phone, Astro would pick it up.

I uninstalled it. Reason being because whenever I would wake the phone up I would have a major lag in Sense. I found out that the Genie Widget would almost try to play catch up with the way it slides through all of the news it has on the widget. I put up with it for a couple of days but then I just got tired of always having to wait for it to catch up with itself. Cool app though

I haven't had any lag or problems with it. Although I disabled most of the news and mainly use it for the weather. htc's weather widget wouldn't update right for me

Sheen160 said:
I'm new here and have sort of a dumb question. How do you get this onto your Eris? I mean since you can't install from sd card without root right?
edit: Nevermind. I had a hunch that if I downloaded it onto my phone, Astro would pick it up.
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If you have the Android SDK you can use adb to install it. It's not too user friendly though, you have to know what the directory is and stuff.
It's faster once you get the hang of it.

Here is a clear version if anyone's interested.

Beautiful Widgets Won't Download.

Alright. Let me lead off by saying I searched google and this forum and I couldn't find the answer to my problem. I have found the "answer" to my problem that has worked for other people but not for me. So let me explain my problem and the solutions I tried. Any help would be appreciated.
I bought Beautiful Widgets from the market place. When i go to download it, it says "download unsuccessful". Let me make clear that i'm not rooted (or ever want to be) and I'm running 2.1-update1.
Solutions that I've tried..
1. settings > apps > manage apps > I cleared data in the "Download Manager" and cleared cache in the "Market" section.
Basically i took this advice, http://androidforums.com/samsung-moment/38687-problem-beautiful-widgets.html, it worked for that dude, Didn't work for me.
2. I've restarted the phone a few times and that didn't work.
3. I refunded my money, and bought the app again, didn't work that time either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Edit: I gave this a new title because paid apps do download, just not beautiful widgets.

Can you install any app at all or does this affect all apps?

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Can you install any app at all or does this affect all apps?
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thanks for the reply
this only happens to paid apps. After all of this happened, I successfully downloaded beautiful silent widgets (or w/e) in the market and it was free.

ChillRays said:
thanks for the reply
this only happens to paid apps. After all of this happened, I successfully downloaded beautiful silent widgets (or w/e) in the market and it was free.
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Are you using wifi or 3g?
Maybe this thread? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=612929&highlight=paid+apps+download&page=2

attn1 said:
Are you using wifi or 3g?
Maybe this thread? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=612929&highlight=paid+apps+download&page=2
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I tried both.. also i set up a google voice account (like that one post suggested) .. i signed in and out of it and back in.. and still that app didn't download.
extremely frusterating

update: ok i bought doodle jump lol.. and that worked.. so i guess it must be something wrong with beautiful widgets?

ChillRays said:
update: ok i bought doodle jump lol.. and that worked.. so i guess it must be something wrong with beautiful widgets?
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Sounds like it. Probably try it another day and it'll work.

attn1 said:
Sounds like it. Probably try it another day and it'll work.
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Do they take apps down when they update them? Just curious, after you answer that i'll give an update after I find out what the problem is.

A dude on #android on Efnet IRC has the same problem.
He tried to buy it, said it went successful, then it was authorizing purchase for a long time.
Then got stuck, then Google issued him a refund because of some server error.
Now, when he goes to his downloads, it says Beautiful Widgets still says "purchased".

The BW author is on twitter all the time. I talk to him time to time. I think it was yesterday he mentioned that there are problems with his server and discussing with the powers that be to get a new one. If you have a twitter account, you may try him there if you havent sent him an email already.

hum - having exactly the same problem.. says purchased, click install, says download unsuccessful.. Followed the cache clear and made no difference..

x1tom said:
hum - having exactly the same problem.. says purchased, click install, says download unsuccessful.. Followed the cache clear and made no difference..
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bumping this:
I have emailed dev - but no reply..
Anyone have any thoughts?

Sorry I don't have an answer for you, but Beautiful Widgets caused problems for me anyway. Constant freezes and crashes. Overall slowdown of everything. I'm back to normal after uninstalling.
Fellow Rays fan here...St Pete resident.
GO RAYS!
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Market Fix for Leaked Froyo

Install it via rom manager or clockwork. Backup prior to doing so.
If things do not show up immediatly, try installing some random app and see if it populates then.
Otherwise, it will happen the next time the market data sync with the phone.
http://www.4shared.com/file/yHlfPvuv/fingerprint_froyo.html

are there any reasons not to do this? will this lead to bad dependencies? incorrectly installed applications?
What problems can this cause? Is this fixable?

neurostu said:
are there any reasons not to do this? will this lead to bad dependencies? incorrectly installed applications?
What problems can this cause? Is this fixable?
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A. This isn't Redhat, circa 1997. Android doesn't work that way.
B. Either they install, or they don't.
C. Problems it can cause? It can prevent Incredible only and/or Verizon only applications from showing up. I don't forsee that being an issue, ever so...
This is a simple build.prop change so that the market will show all paid apps.
Before:
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon_wwe/inc/inc/inc:2.2/FRF91/212490:user/release-keys
(Market: wtf is this?)
After:
ro.build.fingerprint=google/passion/passion/mahimahi:2.2/FRF91/43546:user/release-keys
(Market: Oh hai, Nexus One!)

Thanks
This worked for me and I got the Documents to Go paid version which was the only thing that I was needing. I had some problems with it kicking me off the network and having to use wifi to connect. After a reboot I was back on the network though so I don't know if that had anything to do with adding this.
Out of curiosity is there a way that I can go back to what it was so that when the market gets fixed it would work like it is suppose to? I saw in the build.prop file what you changed and thought I could just change that back but I wanted to ask before I did.
Thanks so much for this.

This will break custom boot animations?
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adrynalyne said:
Install it via rom manager or clockwork. Backup prior to doing so.
If things do not show up immediatly, try installing some random app and see if it populates then.
Otherwise, it will happen the next time the market data sync with the phone.
http://www.4shared.com/file/yHlfPvuv/fingerprint_froyo.html
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Thanks for this, one of my paid apps wasn't showing up, this did the trick!

Ok the reason I asked was because someone in ##incredibleroot said it would cause problems

Did they specify what?
Random text about causing problems from someone in IRC without a reason of what or why is pretty worthless.

adrynalyne,
YOU ARE THE MAN!!!

Here is a new version that includes the streaming audio fixes.
http://www.4shared.com/file/RjEL6jSz/market_streaming_fix_froyo.html

To have the market checkin right away do the following so you don't have to wait or download any other BS apps.
1. Open the Phone app
2. Dial *#*#CHECKIN#*#* (2432546) ** When you type the last "*" what you typed will disappear.
3. Wait for the message on the notification bar to say "checkin succeeded."
4. All paid apps that were missing should be available.
Thanks.

chapsizzle71 said:
To have the market checkin right away do the following so you don't have to wait or download any other BS apps.
1. Open the Phone app
2. Dial *#*#CHECKIN#*#* (2432546)
3. Wait for the message on the notification bar to say "checkin succeeded."
4. All paid apps that were missing should be available.
Thanks.
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I got the checkin successful message but not all my paid apps are showing up still.
I didn't add the files posted in this thread as of yet.

adrynalyne said:
Here is a new version that includes the streaming audio fixes.
http://www.4shared.com/file/RjEL6jSz/market_streaming_fix_froyo.html
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I am assuming that we install this updated version rather than the one posted initially, yes?

Yeah.
Unless you don't care about streaming audio quality.

adrynalyne said:
Yeah.
Unless you don't care about streaming audio quality.
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Installed the updated version, and all my paid apps have shown up once more.
Thank you sir, much appreciated!

Well, adrynalyne proves yet again that his is a bamf. Thanks a lot man!

chapsizzle71 said:
To have the market checkin right away do the following so you don't have to wait or download any other BS apps.
1. Open the Phone app
2. Dial *#*#CHECKIN#*#* (2432546)
3. Wait for the message on the notification bar to say "checkin succeeded."
4. All paid apps that were missing should be available.
Thanks.
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As soon as I tap the last * the number disappears. What am I doing wrong?

adrynalyne said:
Yeah.
Unless you don't care about streaming audio quality.
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I guess I'm the only one that has great streaming audio quality. I use Pandora and even before changing the audio quality setting to "High" it didn't sound bad. I wonder what that is that makes it hit or miss on these devices.
Anyways, I just wanted to point out that the AAC fix really slows the phone down a bit. It changed my quadrant scores from 1200's down to 790-800.
Just a FYI.
P.S. Thanks for the Market fix!

i have the htc music widget on my homescreen. after installing the update with the streaming audio fixes whenever i reboot my phone my music starts playing automatically. now when i remove the widget and reboot the music doesn't play.

jermaine151 said:
Anyways, I just wanted to point out that the AAC fix really slows the phone down a bit. It changed my quadrant scores from 1200's down to 790-800.
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Ouch, yeah, it did. Is there a way to undo this or fix it?

Most of my home screen shortcuts disappeared

Every time i reboot my device a lot of my homescreen shortcuts went away so i forecd to remanage them again manually any suggestion please

alaazynab said:
Evry time i reboot my device a lot of my homescreen shortcuts went away so i forecd to remanage them again manually any suggestion please
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try a different launcher like launcherpro or adw. just a suggestion.

What do yuo think about the best one from your expirence

alaazynab said:
What do yuo think about the best one from your expirence
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for simple launchers, you can take a look at zeam. very basic settings.
for more customizations, try adw(free), adw ex(paid), or launcherpro. lots of features. example, you can adjust number of rows and columns your homescreen has and you can enable scrollable widgets on your homescreens. these are just some of the options.

alaazynab said:
Every time i reboot my device a lot of my homescreen shortcuts went away so i forecd to remanage them again manually any suggestion please
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Did you moved all those apps to sdcard? If so, try install them without moving to sdcard. Restart your tab again and see if the icons stays on homescreen.

kay_kiat88 said:
for simple launchers, you can take a look at zeam. very basic settings.
for more customizations, try adw(free), adw ex(paid), or launcherpro. lots of features. example, you can adjust number of rows and columns your homescreen has and you can enable scrollable widgets on your homescreens. these are just some of the options.
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thank very much

Qsilver2001 said:
Did you moved all those apps to sdcard? If so, try install them without moving to sdcard. Restart your tab again and see if the icons stays on homescreen.
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Yes i did move them to sd card but to get them back to the phone will rise a big problem of storage and it will be easier to deal with the disappearance .what do thing about that ?

Some apps are not coded to handle 2.2 (move2sd) thats what i think. Don't quote me for that. As it did happened to me once with an app disappearing. After moving it back, everything went well.
Don't think apps take alot of space even if you have like 60+ apps.

If you use Multicon they stay and you get more icons.
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Qsilver2001 said:
Some apps are not coded to handle 2.2 (move2sd) thats what i think. Don't quote me for that. As it did happened to me once with an app disappearing. After moving it back, everything went well.
Don't think apps take alot of space even if you have like 60+ apps.
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thank very much for reply but my phone storage is exhuted i ve alot +300 of medical programs
i want to ask you about another related thing
how can i take maximum advantage of my external sd card it used only as just a repository can i transfer my app data to it this choice not aviable in such program app 2sd
thanks again

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If you use Multicon they stay and you get more icons.
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thank you i ll try

alaazynab said:
thank very much for reply but my phone storage is exhuted i ve alot +300 of medical programs
i want to ask you about another related thing
how can i take maximum advantage of my external sd card it used only as just a repository can i transfer my app data to it this choice not aviable in such program app 2sd
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The best you can do, with so many apps, is moving them to sd, and use "folder organizer" to manage them in folders.
Then you can put a widget on your home with all your categories and folders.
I do this way, and I never use the app drawer
Sure it will take a bit to categorize all those apps, but it's worth it, folder organizer is the best android app.
(It also have a tasker plugin, so you can, for example, use a long press of the search button to open the main folder from any application)
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Thank you very much i ll try your help is appreciated

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Did you moved all those apps to sdcard? If so, try install them without moving to sdcard. Restart your tab again and see if the icons stays on homescreen.
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whodathunk!
I was also having this problem just not on my home screen...After reading/looking found this thread and viola! no more missing shortcuts!
Not sure why having them on sd card would be a cause for them to disappear but that seems to be a bug [samsung?].
fixed the problem on my vibrant
Thanks!