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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.
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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
Hello guys im wondering y people use laumcher pro? Isnt phone comes with 7 homescreen already? Isnt home replacement usually for 1.5 or 1.6 users that have 3 homescreens? Please tell us why u use launcher pro. Thanks
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I bought launcherpro plus. The thing that I love the most is the notification icons for gmail, missed calls, and sms. The developer has quite a few widgets for the plus version; they all try to emulate HTC sense. It is very customizable, similar to ADW... which is also a very good alternative. I think that people should try the different launchers (ADW & Launcherpro) to see if it works best for them.
Dock and dock icons customizations
Because it has a lot more features than standard home launcher (unrooted) and it's way more customizable
- Ability to hide apps from the app drawer (the kinda apps that you don't want to uninstall).
- It has it's own amazing widgets, 5 now and counting.
- elastic scrolling
- up to 3 scrollable docks
- custom dock background
- missed calls, sms, and gmail counters in dock
- 5 columns app drawer
- resize any widget
- as snappy as stock launcher
- shortcuts to system activities
- ability to assign 2 actions to each dock icon: a tap-action and a swipe-action
to name a few
Why don't you try it before asking?
LauncherPro support more than stock such as:
7 homescreen (stock is 5 not 7)
Easier customize on dockbar which stock lack.
Up to 3 scrollable dockbar.
Better pinch to preview all 7 screen rather than stock tinner 7 view.
Widget resize to our preferable size.
Plus edition having useful sense like widget, at the moment include people, messaging, bookmarks, agenda & twitter. More will be developed in future.
Hiding unwanted apps in app drawer.
Ability to add system activities shortcut which can't be added by stock, example ability to extract stock camera - camcorder app as shortcut.
Ability to add more hidden shortcut, example add new contact shortcut.
Missed calls, sms, and gmail counters in dockbar.
Smoother than stock.
the_ahmadzais said:
Hello guys im wondering y people use laumcher pro? Isnt phone comes with 7 homescreen already? Isnt home replacement usually for 1.5 or 1.6 users that have 3 homescreens? Please tell us why u use launcher pro. Thanks
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Why not ?
Because I like using applications that take from other applications.
The 3 scrolling docks, much smoother home screen scrolling, hide the status bar. These are by far my top features. I too purchased the paid version.
Hello everybody,
Currently I'm use Mac lite 1.03 final ROM for my X6 , however, i can't see this usefull widget ( I attached the screenshot ) in my homescreen
Can you show to me how to find or how to install this widget ???
Thankyou
Power Control Widget
09436 said:
Hello everybody,
Currently I'm use Mac lite 1.03 final ROM for my X6 , however, i can't see this usefull widget ( I attached the screenshot ) in my homescreen
Can you show to me how to find or how to install this widget ???
Thankyou
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Power control widget is the widget.
Link for free widget
Other widgets you might like to chose from: Power toggles
k1chy said:
Power control widget is the widget.
Link for free widget
Other widgets you might like to chose from: Power toggles
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Wowwww....you're the Man..... Thx for great information :good::good::good:
Looks like Sony has unfortunately not packed the former "Extras" / "Quick Toggle" widget(s) into the Z3C. Found them quite useful at times and kind of miss them now. Anyone with an idea to get them back (maybe from the Z1C which is running 4.4.4 as well)?
Would you be able to get them back with Xposed gravity box when we get root?
Isn't it possible to just get the widget's apk from that system folder where all of the apk's from the built-in apps are? I've done it for a few apps before, without being rooted.
Here is the installer for the official Sony quick-toggle widgets from my Xperia Acro S
Tested on my Xperia Z2 tablet, only the backlight toggle doesn't seem to work.
degraaff said:
Here is the installer for the official Sony quick-toggle widgets from my Xperia Acro S
Tested on my Xperia Z2 tablet, only the backlight toggle doesn't seem to work.
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Thanks for that! Will give it a try later on.
Someone with a Z1C or Z2 in this forum to have a newer version to post here (Acro S seems a little old maybe ) ?
sxtester said:
Thanks for that! Will give it a try later on.
Someone with a Z1C or Z2 in this forum to have a newer version to post here (Acro S seems a little old maybe ) ?
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Well the z2 tablet doesn't come with such widgets so I'm pretty sure it's the same with the z2. They probably removed those toggle widgets since the introduction of the swipe-down quick toggles.
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Well the z2 tablet doesn't come with such widgets so I'm pretty sure it's the same with the z2. They probably removed those toggle widgets since the introduction of the swipe-down quick toggles.
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Think I had seen them on a Z1C (running 4.4.4) as well as on the Z2 (running 4.4.2) still available. Guess these were only removed on the Z3 series along that new functionality of being able to drag/drop quick-settings icons in the settings bar.
Just tested "Power Toggles" on my Z3C and found that App to be a very good candidate to replace the original Sony toggle widget. If enabled, it even gives back the toggles in the notification bar (without having to tap on Settings or swiping to the left). Very nice!
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Here is the installer for the official Sony quick-toggle widgets from my Xperia Acro S
Tested on my Xperia Z2 tablet, only the backlight toggle doesn't seem to work.
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Thanks a billion, buddy!!!
I only hope this will work for Lollipop and Marshmallow, too.
I use "Power Toggles" much better than the stock toggles with many options.
...you can also try this toogles, works on latest 5.1, no root needed :
You Will find it at apkmirror.com / Sony apps
For those who prefer custom Launchers.
I prefer to use Nova instead of Pixel Launcher but persistent Nova search bar is too small on my opinion and doesn't update weather correctly. So I made my own Pixel styled search widget for KWGT.
Widget is fully customizable so you can set it up as you want including all its layers, colour etc.
KWGT Kustom Widget Pro Key is required to load preset!
Download preset from Google Drive
Also if you have Tasker you can launch Google Now Weather using this task:
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
How to install this do i flash it i am using action launcher
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How to install this do i flash it i am using action launcher
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You need to install KWGT and move Google_Pixel_Search_Widget.kwgt into Kustom/widgets folder. Then choose KWGT4x1 widget from your widgets gallery and place it to the screen > "click to setup..." (it opens KWGT app) > Exported tab > Google Pixel Search Widget. That's all.
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You need to install KWGT and move Google_Pixel_Search_Widget.kwgt into Kustom/widgets folder. Then choose KWGT4x1 widget from your widgets gallery and place it to the screen > "click to setup..." (it opens KWGT app) > Exported tab > Google Pixel Search Widget. That's all.
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Yeah, but U should noticed, that this option is only for pay app version.
Thunderbolt said:
Yeah, but U should noticed, that this option is only for pay app version.
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Ofc you're right. I missed that point - will add requirements.
UPD
Several cosmetic improvements.
How do I get mine to display like yours? Mine doesn't sit right at the side of the screen, and doesn't extend as far to the right.
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ataft said:
How do I get mine to display like yours? Mine doesn't sit right at the side of the screen, and doesn't extend as far to the right.
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Try to resize it right after placing into home screen. And also set Layer > Scale to 70.
Was an issue with sizing settings from within the KWGT app settings. Changed to auto resizing and it all looks perfect now.
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I have problem with location temperature and when i tap on the weather nothing going on,the widget is beautiful but something going wrong with me
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I have problem with location temperature and when i tap on the weather nothing going on,the widget is beautiful but something going wrong with me
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By default it is set to launch Google News & Weather. So you should install this app or set TOUCH to launch another app, shortcut etc..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.hassie.widget.pixelpill
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.hassie.widget.pixelpill
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And why did you post it here? It has nothing to do with KWGT and btw is not available in some countries.
I love the widget but other weather on widget and other on the app
vagelis74 said:
I love the widget but other weather on widget and other on the app
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You can always choose another weather source or try different apps, shortcuts etc. for launching.
I'm using weather.com as a source and google now weather.
Can you please post a link to the wallpaper and icon packs that you used?
This is great!
Do you have any idea how to get it to open a Google search overlay like the Nova widget can?
I googled around and it said to use activity - Google - gsa.queryentry.queryentryactivity which comes close. It opens the overlay but also the app. I would love to faithfully reproduce the native widget so I can use a better weather source. Thanks!
Icon pack name?
Icon pack name?
Link not found ? Any mirrors ?