So I'm delighted with my new HTC One, and still learning the features and capabilities.
Blinkfeed provides a feed of multiple sources of news, tweets, posts etc., but I'm finding it easy to miss important things, and I'm seriously missing the HTC Mail, News and Friend Stream widgets I had on my Sensation and before that the Desire.
The HTC Calendar widgets have made it onto the One, but there aren't any HTC ones for the other data.
I've searched Google Play, and only come up with Pure Messenger which works pretty well for Twitter & Facebook, but although it support mail feeds, you can't use the stock HTC Mail app having to replace it with "K9 for Pure" - which I'm not keen on.
Am I missing something? What recommendations do people have to replace my former favourite wdgets - or is there a better way to use Blinkfeed?
All and any (constructive) suggestions welcomed.
Thanks for your feedback.
you could try apw widgets on the play store
They are skinnable and have sense skins, not sure if it's paid or not but there is are widgets for facebook+twitter for instance
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rdr.widgets.core&hl=en
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Dear XDA-members,
I own a Hero for some months now, and I am very pleased with it as an old Touch Diamond user.
However, there is one thing that I really miss and can't find anywhere. Not on this great forum, not on Google and not in the Market. What I really miss is a widget to show the upcoming birthdays. I know there are some widgets for that. But they all want Google Contacts. I want a widget that gets the information from my Outlook Contacts.
Hopefully someone here can help me out with pointing on a widget that can do this.
Thanks in advance
I think you are looking for Ebobirthday.
I really like the 2.1 Facebook integration within my contacts list. It's nice to see someone's last FB update when you view them as an individual contact, but why not their last Twitter update?
Long pressing a contact's picture icon opens up important shortcuts linked to them (Call, SMS, Mail, gTalk, Maps, and FB), but why is there no Twitter shortcut? Obviously there's no default Twitter client on the vanilla N1, but even with 3rd party apps there seems to be a lack of this integration.
Would this be a restriction of the firmware's framework? I believe HTC's Sense UI uses HTC Peep and integrates Twitter a bit better, so why hasn't Google done something similar right out of the box? After all, FB was a no brainer to integrate into their new OS.
Can someone suggest a good calender to use, I'm not necessarily all about sense, but they have the best calender, the stock widget blows goats, and not to many alternatives???? Any sugestions
Android agenda widget
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For main calendar I really like Jorte.
Since it integrates with my google calendar, I can use any widget I want with it, which is good because I don't like Jorte's calendar widget.
For widgets I like both CalWidget and Android Agenda Widget
Smooth Calendar
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Pure Grid Calender, it is very similar to sense, except you cant scroll from month to month. You have to click a button, but whatever. Also it cost money and is not a free app. But it also has more widget sizes than HTC Sense one.
I'm not satisfied with the calendar in Galaxy S (is it Samsung's own or Android stock?). Often I need to login into Google Calendar on the web to be able to customize my appointments as I want.
This I miss:
1. Be able to choose what calendar which is the default one. Now "My calendar" is the default, I want one of my two Google calendars to be default.
2. I want to be able to specify "repeat rules" (not sure what the english term is) better. It's not possible to make an appointment appear every second monday for instance. But it's possible to do through Google calendar on the web.
3. Specify notification tone.
And I want to keep everything that does work, like multiple calendars and syncing to my Google account etc.
Hi. I use jorte, free in the market.
Give it a try
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Jorte is the best, which is not to say it's great.
It also has the best widgets.
Others don't come anywhere close as calendars, although they might have nicer looking skins.
Jorte is very good. But for the widgets i like more agenda widgets. Looks much nicer and has better options.
Gemini Calendar is a nice and free (available in the market) app and has useful widgets, although I've not tried any others bar the original SGS app
Non of them are really good. They do have the functions I'm missing in the original calendar app, but the GUIs are just horrible.
Is it possible to switch the Samsung Calendar to original Android calendar? Or maybe HTC Calendar?
djr83 said:
Non of them are really good. They do have the functions I'm missing in the original calendar app, but the GUIs are just horrible.
Is it possible to switch the Samsung Calendar to original Android calendar? Or maybe HTC Calendar?
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you can switch to stock calendar here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=735035
note: you will have a big "plus" sign on the top of your screen which i find pretty annoying. i just switched to jorte based on opinions here but honestly i use agenda widget most of the time. it's great and scrollable with launcherpro and syncs to RTM tasks as well. love it.
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Gemini Calendar is a nice and free (available in the market) app and has useful widgets, although I've not tried any others bar the original SGS app
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thanks for pointing this out. really cool app with some great features (love the slider for setting event dates/times).
i only wish it had week view on it. really impressive app though!
Hi guys, I'm after an RSS reader that uses google reader and supports 2 accounts that isn't the one made by Google.
Any ideas?
I'm wanting one with easy switching like Friendcaster does for Facebook rather than logging out and in as another user.
I don't like the Google one, it's awful to look at and no thumbnail photos etc when viewing a list of stories.
Anyone got any ideas?
thanks
(my tablet was ordered today so not here just yet)