Are there any AOKP themes specifically for the captivate?
Search the market or xda for "cm9 themes" All compatible with aokp's theme chooser.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1643406
There's a few out there
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ButterCream and Dark - two themes I know.
Feel free to theme on your own and save your art - we haven't many artists here.
I like the color picker in AOKP, but I was surprised that you pick and choose each color separately for time, signal, etc. There is the hard-coded button to recall the ICS holo blue. I would love to see another button that stores a user selected color instead of copying and pasting the hex codes, although that works. And then the wireless signal is a graphic image that you cant change without flashing a .zip to modify system png and the like. I wondered if it could be coded to use a triangle with a fill color based on something from the color picker, and then lay over top of that grey or black bars for the part that should be 'off'. maybe layers arent possible? tho it appears that they are being used, and i have seen overlap of the data signal on top of the wireless bars. right? I know there is a LOT of stuff these amazing developers are working on which keeps them very busy already. These are just some ideas
I noticed looking through some of the code in AOKP gerrit for the theme chooser updates, that they started using variables instead of a hard coded ICS holo blue color. but it seems as if there is no user interaction for that color, its still a hard coded value set in a single location instead of being hard coded in multiple locations. So it is a huge improvement Im sure for themers who have to try to search out and modify every instance of those values. I would just like to see it progress to something where the end user can modify that variable from Rom Control.
It would be even more awesome if Android used a system wide style sheet setup. background, checkbox style, text color, font, font size, perhaps it could even include specs for headers, paragraphs, tables, titles, etc. but that would be WAY more than I am thinking. It certainly works nicely for web design tho.
This would then be something that other apps could also read and implement into their design as well. Then we wouldn't have to create hacked SMS and google play, and tapatalk, etc, etc, etc. to make them inverted or red, green, orange, blue, yellow, etc.
Of course having an option to over-ride those settings is cool too, maybe you want an all orange theme, but you want white on your keyboard keys. a keyboard app could have a selector built into its settings which allows you to follow the system setting or pick your own base color, or go with the developers default choice. There are a lot of great developers out there who make gorgeous apps that deserve to keep their defaults, ie. 1weather. So I am sure apps would ship with their own defaults turned on, so the user is guaranteed the experience they intended.
I do think these ideas seem inline with what google is trying to accomplish with their unified design standards.
I am imagining a day where I can change my wallpaper and then open settings, use a color picker (maybe even one that can pick a color from the wallpaper ... Then maybe choose black or white, or gradient or transparent background. Two steps, and just that simply and quickly my whole system is color themed to compliment. Then using Tasker this could even be automated for work, home, weekends, etc. LOL.
Ok iphone, take that!
This is an idea I have from my experience using themes on my Samsung Captivate. My experiences i describe apply particularly to the AOKP builds for that device and a few others. However the concepts are something which would be implemented at a system level and I think it would be applicable for any Android device, so I wanted to share it here in the general forum as well.
I like the color picker in Rom Control for ICS AOKP, but I was surprised that you pick and choose each color separately for clock, signal, etc. There is the hard-coded button to recall the ICS holo blue. I would love to see another button that stores a user selected color instead of copying and pasting the hex codes, although that works. And then the wireless signal is a graphic image that you cant change without flashing a .zip to modify system png and the like. I wondered if it could be coded to use a triangle with a fill color based on something from the color picker, and then lay over top of that grey or black bars for the part that should be 'off'. maybe layers arent possible? tho it appears that they are being used, and i have seen overlap of the data signal on top of the wireless bars. right? I know there is a LOT of stuff these amazing developers are working on which keeps them very busy already. These are just some ideas
I noticed looking through some of the code in AOKP gerrit for the theme chooser updates, that they started using variables instead of a hard coded ICS holo blue color. but it seems as if there is no user interaction for that color, its still a hard coded value set in a single location instead of being hard coded in multiple locations. So it is a huge improvement Im sure for themers who have to try to search out and modify every instance of those values. I would just like to see it progress to something where the end user can modify that variable from Rom Control.
It would be even more awesome if Android used a system wide style sheet setup. background, checkbox style, text color, font, font size, perhaps it could even include specs for headers, paragraphs, tables, titles, etc. but that would be WAY more than I am thinking. It certainly works nicely for web design tho.
This would then be something that other apps could also read and implement into their design as well. Then we wouldn't have to create hacked SMS and google play, and tapatalk, etc, etc, etc. to make them inverted or red, green, orange, blue, yellow, etc.
Of course having an option to over-ride those settings is cool too, maybe you want an all orange theme, but you want white on your keyboard keys. a keyboard app could have a selector built into its settings which allows you to follow the system setting or pick your own base color, or go with the developers default choice. There are a lot of great developers out there who make gorgeous apps that deserve to keep their defaults, ie. 1weather. So I am sure apps would ship with their own defaults turned on, so the user is guaranteed the experience they intended.
I do think these ideas seem inline with what google is trying to accomplish with their unified design standards.
I am imagining a day where I can change my wallpaper and then open settings, use a color picker (maybe even one that can pick a color from the wallpaper ... Then maybe choose black or white, or gradient or transparent background. Two steps, and just that simply and quickly my whole system is color themed to compliment. Then using Tasker this could even be automated for work, home, weekends, etc. LOL.
Ok iphone, take that!
OK so I guess 187 people looked and decided that was way toooo much to read.
LOL
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You might be familiar with Grid OS, FusionGarages latest idea that didn't make the market. While that's a more complicated version of the idea, I'd like to see a theme or launcher capable of displaying icons in a perfect grid of squares without any space between the icons. To compensate for inconsistent resolutions, the theme/launcher would need to simply calculate the available space, with or without an outside margin.
The attachment displays a quick concept of this idea. The blueish background represents the wallpaper, the white and black squares represent icons. These icons may be displayed in a variety of ways - glass themed, miui themed, colors based on average color of default icon with the default icon on top (similar to miui), etcetera, but the main feature is the lack of padding between the icons. A pure grid with dimensionless gridlines. I realize an extra row and column could have been added, but nonetheless, it's just a mockup.
There's also the lack of a dock - this may be added somewhere, but not on an edge as that would distort the grid. It needs to be connected seamless and paddingless to the pure grid, with or without an empty row inbetween the dock and the other icons. In the mockup, it may simply be the lowest row of icons, for example. However, a dock would distract from the solidness of the grid as it would only be useful with multiple homescreens, whereas I reckon the theme would work best if the grid is all there is - no distracting slides to different homescreens, overscrolling the necessary margin to the screen edges and distoring the grid on these sides to compensate for resolution, when moving to the new set of icons on a different homescreen. Instead, scrolling (perhaps just vertically), like on Grid OS, could do. In that case, a margin to compensate for screen edges is only optional as well.
Is there such a launcher or similar theme already? Is it something to hope for, for a fellow developer to build upon this idea?
Would really love to see this. Especially since it's different.
Have you tried sslauncher in the play store yet?
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MKBHD posted a very cool wallpaper for the iPhone 7 which had a graph background with labels for everything like Signal, battery, etc. which you can check out here:
https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/837...096129538?s=09
I wanted a similar wallpaper but for Android and after hours of searching, couldn't find one. So I made my own
Now since Android is very customizable, it is virtually impossible to make a universal wallpaper for all android phones. Therefore this guide so that everyone can make that wallpaper for their phone themselves!
Note: Some basic Photoshop skills will be required which I will not be explaining in this guide.
STEP 1: Downloading the .PSD files
I have uploaded 2 files, one for the homescreen and one for the lockscreen. You can download both if you wish to at any one of them.
Homescreen - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2XbBDw3Myp5WG5uSF8yUlRmZHM
Lockscreen - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2XbBDw3Myp5bE8tNExhaU9uaDA
STEP 2: Placement of screenshot and blueprint background
This is the main step.
Take a screenshot of your current homescreen and/or lockscreen with your current wallpaper and embed it in the respective .PSD files(as a new layer). Now place the screenshot at the bottom of all the layers. Make sure that the visibility of both the blueprint backgrounds (coming to that later) is turned off. At this stage, you can see which of the boxes an labels are aligned with the elements on your homescreen/lockscreen(like clock, widgets, signal and wifi icons, etc.) and align the ones that are not already aligned simply by dragging/moving them. You can zoom in for better precision.
After the alignment of the labels and boxes has been done, you can turn off the visibility of the screenshot layer.
Now coming to the background: I have supplied 2 blueprint backgrounds - one is blue(just like the one MKBHD posted) and the other is purple(which I made for myself). You can choose any 1 from the 2. Now turn on the visibility of the blueprint that you have chosen and your editing is complete!
STEP 3: Exporting the wallpaper
Now comes the most easy yet awaited part: saving your work! Just choose "Quick export as PNG" in the file menu and transfer the saved image to your device. You can now set it as your wallpaper and enjoy!
Please give a "Thanks" if it helped you and share!
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MKBHD posted a very cool wallpaper for the iPhone 7 which had a graph background with labels for everything like Signal, battery, etc. which you can check out here:
https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/837...096129538?s=09
I wanted a similar wallpaper but for Android and after hours of searching, couldn't find one. So I made my own
Now since Android is very customizable, it is virtually impossible to make a universal wallpaper for all android phones. Therefore this guide so that everyone can make that wallpaper for their phone themselves!
Note: Some basic Photoshop skills will be required which I will not be explaining in this guide.
STEP 1: Downloading the .PSD files
I have uploaded 2 files, one for the homescreen and one for the lockscreen. You can download both if you wish to at any one of them.
Homescreen - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2XbBDw3Myp5WG5uSF8yUlRmZHM
Lockscreen - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2XbBDw3Myp5bE8tNExhaU9uaDA
STEP 2: Placement of screenshot and blueprint background
This is the main step.
Take a screenshot of your current homescreen and/or lockscreen with your current wallpaper and embed it in the respective .PSD files(as a new layer). Now place the screenshot at the bottom of all the layers. Make sure that the visibility of both the blueprint backgrounds (coming to that later) is turned off. At this stage, you can see which of the boxes an labels are aligned with the elements on your homescreen/lockscreen(like clock, widgets, signal and wifi icons, etc.) and align the ones that are not already aligned simply by dragging/moving them. You can zoom in for better precision.
After the alignment of the labels and boxes has been done, you can turn off the visibility of the screenshot layer.
Now coming to the background: I have supplied 2 blueprint backgrounds - one is blue(just like the one MKBHD posted) and the other is purple(which I made for myself). You can choose any 1 from the 2. Now turn on the visibility of the blueprint that you have chosen and your editing is complete!
STEP 3: Exporting the wallpaper
Now comes the most easy yet awaited part: saving your work! Just choose "Quick export as PNG" in the file menu and transfer the saved image to your device. You can now set it as your wallpaper and enjoy!
Please give a "Thanks" if it helped you and share!
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Right on man! I'm gonna try it out now. Will update afterwards..
Any screen shots??
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You can find the screenshots in my original post over here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/themes-apps/wallpaper-mkbhd-iphone-graph-style-t3581583
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At A Glance widget for KWGT is a widget inspired by Google's new At A Glance feature introduced in Pixel Launcher with the release of Pixel 2 and 2 XL. I tried to make the widget look as similar to Google's At A Glance as possible, and added a few options for customization.
If you have any ideas on how to improve the widget or want to report any unexpected issues with it, feel free to comment on this thread.
Screenshots
No event:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Normal event:
Normal event more than 30 minutes away from now & with location:
Now playing info:
Dark theme:
How to use it
In case you don't have it yet, install mod edit - link removed KWGT app from the Play Store.
Launch the KWGT app and go through initial setup (allow access to storage and location and so on). Then exit the app.
Install the At A Glance Widget for KWGT app from the Play Store.
Place a KWGT widget to your screen. I personally used the 4x2 one, and then resized it to 5x2.
Now tap the widget, it will open the KWGT app. Pick the At A Glance widget.
That should be it. Click the save icon in the toolbar, and go home. The widget should appear on your homescreen. For further customization, check the section below.
If the widget is displaying incorrectly in some way (weird size, empty event showing), check the FAQ & Troubleshooting section below.
Customizable features
I tried my best to make the widget look like Google's one at the Pixel Launcher. Some customization options and extra features are always a good thing, right? If the widget doesn't look like the Google's one or if you just want to change some aspects of it, be sure to check this section.
My goal was to make the customization as easy as possible. The widget look can be only changed by fiddling with "globals". KWGT has a limitation of 8 characters per variable, so although I tried to be as descriptive as possible when naming them, I don't think their meaning will be clear to you for all of them. Here's a list of available globals with description of what they do and why they're here.
Code:
Variable name Default value Description
---Dimensions category---
size 147.083 Size of the whole widget. Change this if you want
to make the widget smaller/bigger.
txtSize1 27 Size of text (and weather icon) in the top row of
the widget.
txtSize2 17 Size of text and icons in the middle and bottom
row of the widget.
---Colors category---
txtColor #FFFFFFFF Color of all texts and icons in the widget.
---Calendar category---
calendar On Whether the widget should display upcoming events.
eventMin 1440 How many minutes to the future can the widget see
upcoming events. Google's widget at Pixel Launcher
only displays events when they're 30 minutes or
less from now, which I honestly think is stupid.
maxEvNaL 23 Maximum length (maximum amount of characters) of
event name that will be displayed. If this amount
is exceeded, the event name will be cut off and
three dots will be added behind it.
evntTime On Whether the widget should display the upcoming
event start and end time.
---Weather category---
weather On Whether the widget should display weather.
weathIco On Whether the widget should display weather icon
(next to the temperature). The weather switch has
to be in On state for this option to have any
effect.
tempSpac Off Option to enable or disable a space between
temperature and temperature unit. Pixel Launcher's
widget has the space there, but it's
typographically incorrect. Example - with this
option Off: 5°C; with this option On: 5 °C.
---Location category---
location Off Whether the widget should display event location.
locCal Calendar for which you want to display event
location. If this is empty, location will be shown
for all enabled calendars (obviously only if the
location switch is turned on and if the event has
any location filled in). This option is useful if
you have multiple calendars and you want the
widget to display location for only one of them.
maxEvLoL 20 Maximum length (maximum amount of characters) of
event location that will be displayed. If this
amount is exceeded, the location text will be cut
and three dots will be added behind it.
---Shadow category---
shadow On Whether the text and icons should cast a shadow.
There is no way to make the weather icon cast a
shadow, so I added an option to turn shadows
completely off if it bugs anybody.
shaColor #FF000000 Color of shadow below text and icons.
shaBlur 25 Shadow blur value.
shaDir 0 Shadow direction.
shaDist 0 Distance of shadow from the text that casts it.
---Localization category---
txtIn in Localization option, you can translate this word
to your own language. See the 2nd screenshot for
reference (where the text will be shown and what
it represents).
txtNow now Localization option, you can translate this word
to your own language. The text will only be shown
for a minute at an event start.
txtHAbbr h Localization option, abbreviation of hour.
Translate the hour abbreviation to your own
language if you want.
txtMAbbr min Localization option, abbreviation of minute.
Translate the minute abbreviation to your own
language if you want.
---Font category---
font1 Product Sans Font used in the top row of the widget.
Regular
font2 Roboto Regular Font used in the middle and bottom rows.
---BETA: Music category---
music Off Whether the widget should display music info. This
feature requires you to grant KWGT access to read
notifications.
muInfLay Song artist Layout of music info (whether you want the widget
- Song title to display both song artist and title or just one
of those.
maxSoArL 16 Maximum length (amount of characters) of song
artist that will be displayed.
maxSoNaL 32 Maximum length (amount of characters) of song
title that will be displayed.
Oh, and make sure you go through all KWGT options and settings! Mainly set some calendars to show, choose your weather provider and change unit system to your liking.
Other features
Open Google App weather (see screenshot below if you don't know what it is) when tapping weather icon or temperature.
Yes, it's possible to set it so that tapping the weather icon/temperature opens the weather screen. You need Tasker, though. If you have it, follow the following steps:
Launch Tasker (enable it), go to Tasks tab and create a new task. Call it "Launch Google Weather".
Click on a button for adding an action. Use the filter search field and search for "intent". Tap the Send Intent option.
Fill in the following fields (name of the field on the left), the text that you're going to fill in on the right.
Code:
Action android.intent.action.VIEW
Cat Default
Data dynact://velour/weather/ProxyActivity
Package com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
Class com.google.android.apps.gsa.velour.DynamicActivityTrampoline
Target Activity
Go back and check if the task works (launch the task with the "Play" button at the bottom left corner of the screen. It should open the Google weather screen.
Maybe, just maybe it could work right away. If you named the Tasker task as I advised (Launch Google Weather), it might already be linked to the widget's tap actions. Try tapping the weather icon or temperature. If it works, we're done.
If not, we have to manually assign the tasks. Go to KWGT and edit our At A Glance widget.
At Items tab, click the first item (Date & weather (no event)).
Now click the third item (Weather container). Go to Touch tab and tap on the Single option.
Click Action and select Launch Shortcut option.
Click Shortcut and select Task Shortcut (it should have Tasker icon). Now pick our task for launching Google weather.
Go back to the "root" "folder" of the widget, and do the same with the last item (Upcoming event time (& location) & weather). There is also a Weather container for which you can assign the same shortcut.
Tapping current date opens Google calendar.
Obviously, you can reassign this to whatever you want.
Tapping event name or event time opens the event in Google calendar.
Known issues and FAQ
The widget displays an empty event (like the screenshot below).
This can be simply fixed by force stopping KWGT app. It happens when you install the widget for the first time on some devices. After force stopping the KWGT app, open the widget in the app and save it. That's it, the bug is now forever fixed on your device. If you don't know how to force stop and app, check the video below.
The widget looks weird - text is too big/small and cut-off. The text size changes when tapping the widget.
This happens due to different screen resolutions, sizes and pixel densities - there are too many display configurations and it's not an easy task to make widget with KWGT to perfectly fit all displays out there. This is the reason why I introduced globals - specifically size (and for more precise controls you can fiddle with txtSize1 and txtSize2). If the widget text size is too big (small), decrease (increase) the mentioned variable values. I created and tested the widget on a 5.5'' screen with 1440x2560 resolution and DPI 523. If you have the same display configuration as me, the widget will most likely look fine on your device. If not, don't worry - changing values of the variables mentioned above will save the day.
Weather icons are different than the ones at Google's Pixel Launcher. - Fixed.
Google's icons are hard to come by. Give them to me and I'll change them to match Google's style. For now I'm using the icons available in KWGT which fit the overall theme the best. I'd like to use Google's icons, though. I like them more as well as you surely do.
The file sizes are fairly big from the 5th version.
That's due to me using high quality custom weather icons. From the 5th version on, the widget no longer relies on the weather icons built in to KWGT app itself. The new icons are perhaps way too big (each icon is 2000x2000), I will scale them down in a future release (expect it in v10) so that it doesn't eat that much space. The new weather icons resolution may be a bit of a overkill, but at least it won't ever be blurry. There is nothing worse than blurry low-res pictures on today's devices with crazy high resolutions.
Downloads
mod edit - link removed
For various reasons I decided to move the app to mod edit - link removed Play Store instead of uploading it here. It's easier to deliver updates that way, and I spent countless hours figuring out all the calculations and formulas necessary for the widget to work correctly, so I don't want the widget to be abused.
Changelog
Code:
v9 (15. 01. 2017) - Due to excessive changes in this version I kept the old widget
(v8) included in the app. If you don't like v9, you can simply
roll back to the 8th version
- NEW: Added a global variable "size" for easier size changes
- NEW: Option to disable calendar events on the widget (it will
only show the current date and weather)
- NEW: Option to disable weather
- NEW: Option to disable weather icon
- NEW: Option to add a space between the temperature and
temperature unit
- NEW: Option to translate hour and minute abbreviations
- NEW: Option to remove the event start and end time from the
widget
- FIX: The widget now works correctly when you have multiple
concurring events
- IMPROVEMENT: Added brief description to all global variables
- IMPROVEMENT: New calendar icon (extracted from Pixel Launcher)
- IMPROVEMENT: There are now two font global variables, one for
the bigger and one for the smaller text (and both by default
match the Pixel's style)
- IMPROVEMENT: Dividers (the vertical and horizontal lines) are
now thinner and match the Pixel Launcher's style
- IMPROVEMENT: Some dimensions changed so that the widget is now
exact 1:1 copy of Pixel Launcher's one
- IMPROVEMENT: Optimized almost all formulas and calculations
- NEW (beta): Option to display now playing info
- NEW (beta): Variables the control the now playing info's layout
v8 (29. 12. 2017) - fixed the time till next event (when the next event is exactly
2, 3, 4, ... hours from now, the widget was incorrectly showing
1 hour less)
v7 (29. 12. 2017) - changes to some formulas for calculating the time remaining till
next event
v6 (29. 12. 2017) - attempt to fix the time till next event (when the next event is
exactly 2, 3, 4, ... hours from now, the widget is incorrectly
showing 1 hour less)
v5 (29. 10. 2017) - changed weather icons to match Google weather icons style
- weather icon and temperature are now added to a container for
easier task selection
v4 (27. 10. 2017) - time till next event now doesn't show minutes when they're
zero (it now e. g. shows only "Event in 3 h" instead of
"Event in 3 h 0 min")
- fixed time till next event not showing hours when the event is
exactly one hour from now
- location container now won't be displayed when location is not
filled in
v3 (27. 10. 2017) - new "font" variable for easier global font changes
- Product Sans Regular font is now set as the default one instead
of Roboto
v2 (25. 10. 2017) - new app icon
- location is now optional
- location can only be displayed for certain specified calendar
- shadow under text and icons is now optional
- all text and icon sizes are now optional
v1 (17. 10. 2017) - initial version
bookmarking this to check out later
The apk is giving me problems. I have pro.
Same. Says it can't parse the package. Zip works great though, awesome work!
johnh123 said:
The apk is giving me problems. I have pro.
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stevefrench85 said:
Same. Says it can't parse the package. Zip works great though, awesome work!
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Sorry about that, it should be fixed now. Apparently I mixed up the packages.
felmaster said:
Sorry about that, it should be fixed now. Apparently I mixed up the packages.
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No worries at all, thanks sir!
One thing I did notice as I was tweaking some settings. In some of the other widgets I've been playing with, they've been setting the font to "Product Sans". Does the Pixel have it set to Roboto like yours? Looks identical according to the photos, so more just curious than anything. Great work, and thanks much!
stevefrench85 said:
No worries at all, thanks sir!
One thing I did notice as I was tweaking some settings. In some of the other widgets I've been playing with, they've been setting the font to "Product Sans". Does the Pixel have it set to Roboto like yours? Looks identical according to the photos, so more just curious than anything. Great work, and thanks much!
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I don't have a Pixel device, so I was only using the new Pixel Launcher on my non-pixel device as a reference when I was designing the widget. I just checked some photos of Pixel and it seems you're right, they're really using the Product Sans font. I must have missed that, thanks for bringing that to my attention. I uploaded a new version here with a "font" variable which is linked to all texts in the widget for easier font changes, and with the default font changed to Product Sans Regular.
Nice work quick question, I have the Date and Weather showing fine, how do I invoke the Calendar or does it switch automatically every ??? minutes
Thanks
dallasnights said:
Nice work quick question, I have the Date and Weather showing fine, how do I invoke the Calendar or does it switch automatically every ??? minutes
Thanks
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Check if you granted calendar permission to KWGT app, and if you selected at least one calendar to show in the KWGT's settings. The widget will then display the nearest event (from your selected calendars) which is at most 1440 minutes (24 hours) from now. The time at which the widget "looks" into the future for events (by default the mentioned 1440 minutes) can be adjusted by changing the eventMin global variable. If there are not any events in the upcoming 24 hours, the widget will only display date and weather.
Also try tapping the "save" button when you're in KWGT and editing the widget. It refreshes the preview in the app.
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I don't have a Pixel device, so I was only using the new Pixel Launcher on my non-pixel device as a reference when I was designing the widget. I just checked some photos of Pixel and it seems you're right, they're really using the Product Sans font. I must have missed that, thanks for bringing that to my attention. I uploaded a new version here with a "font" variable which is linked to all texts in the widget for easier font changes, and with the default font changed to Product Sans Regular.
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Awesome, looks great! Yeah, I tried it for the first day or so and I couldn't put my finger on what was slightly different, but that was the trick. I think that Product Sans font makes it really pop against the Roboto everywhere else.
Good work, sir! Very user friendly as well!
stevefrench85 said:
Awesome, looks great! Yeah, I tried it for the first day or so and I couldn't put my finger on what was slightly different, but that was the trick. I think that Product Sans font makes it really pop against the Roboto everywhere else.
Good work, sir! Very user friendly as well!
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Thanks for the positive feedback! I now uploaded a new version with Google weather icons, so now it might finally really be the same as Google's At A Glance widget. As a side effect of using custom icons, the file size got bumped up a bit, though. I'll update the screenshots in the first post soon, the widget now looks a bit differently with the new font and weather icons.
Good work, very user friendly, thank you very much!
I'd love to use this, looks great. But it shows the calendar with a non existent event one minute away even though I despise calendars and never use it. No events are set up at all. Even if I try and customise by removing the calendar portion of the widget nothing at all shows up. No weather or date. What's going on? Thanks. EDIT: no worries, I'm using the app another widget now.
For some reason the widget keeps doing this (look at the image) how to solve? https://photos.app.goo.gl/nH7q1VeP3JvFq3ej2
ratbags said:
I'd love to use this, looks great. But it shows the calendar with a non existent event one minute away even though I despise calendars and never use it. No events are set up at all. Even if I try and customise by removing the calendar portion of the widget nothing at all shows up. No weather or date. What's going on? Thanks. EDIT: no worries, I'm using the app another widget now.
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staharuddin said:
For some reason the widget keeps doing this (look at the image) how to solve? https://photos.app.goo.gl/nH7q1VeP3JvFq3ej2
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Yeah, I honestly have no idea what's causing it. I just updated to Android 8.1 and my own widget started doing the same to me :laugh:. I fixed it by clearing KWGT data and fiddling with the settings a bit. Also the size of font and icons is behaving differently on 8.1, so I changed the default values in globals.
I didn't know about Another Widget app at the time I was creating this. If this widget doesn't work for you, I recommend checking Another Widget out, it's really good and works without any problems. It's missing some customization options though, and the weather is not very accurate in my location, so it's not good enough for me. I'll keep this thread updated only if some problems which can be fixed occur.
It seems like there is support for "Date and weather (no event)" but I can't figure out how to enable that layer. The layer's Visible variable is set to "Remove" by default. How can I disable the other 2 layers and enable the first one?
Edit: figured it out by setting eventMin to -1 in globals.
I can't seem to find it on the Play Store?
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I can't seem to find it on the Play Store?
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Yes, sorry about that, it's not there yet, Google is slow at reviewing apps. They rejected it twice because I mentioned other brand (Pixel Launcher) in the app description... It should be there tomorrow, hopefully.
Edit: It's live.
Ok, so the app is now safely moved to Play Store. Due to various (mainly personal) reasons (I don't want to go into full detail here) I've decided to charge some money for the app. I picked the lowest price possible ($0.69 without VAT).
Those of you who already downloaded the app when it was free here, feel free to keep it (consider it as a gift for testing it). I would very much appreciate it you didn't share the downloaded files anywhere, though.
I also scheduled a sale on the Play Store, so tomorrow (January 11, since 0:00 GMT till 23:59 GMT) you can grab it for free from there. This would also guarantee you further updates (for free), if you're interested in that (I plan on adding some more optional info to the widget once my school exams are over; any suggestions are welcome).
I would also appreciate reviews on the Play Store listing, that would really help me out.
Thank you.