Hi guys,
Trying to convert my old Nexus to an always on dashboard and thinking about a custom rom. The official one doesn't seem to allow always-on display. Any recommendations?
Thinking about undervolting it as well.
The ideal outcome is having:
-clock
-Weather (rain / no rain, temperature chart during the day?)
-upcoming birthdays today/tomorrow (e.g. via calendar)
-agenda for today
-top read news form 2-3 news sources / rss feeds
-air quality index
-departures from my bus/train stations and selected buses/train platforms
possibly a smart home control panel in the future
google now for voice commands
What I think is the best approach so far:
custom rom (maybe)
custom launcher (Nova)
black background
adaptive brightens or scheduling
have the above as widgets on one home screen
I was thinking building a web site on my local network for this but pre-built would save me a lot of time, so even paid ones are good.
Any thoughts?
Cheers in advance!
Alright, here is what I've got for anyone attempting to do this:
Rooted halogenOS 7.1..2
- disable bottom navigation buttons
- disabled battery optimization for all the apps below
- auto hide status bar
id=nu.nav.bar Navigation bar app to replace navigation buttons (set auto hide after 10s)
Nova launcher pro:
- allow widget overlap
- lock the screen configuration
- lock into landscape mode
Business calendar pro
- 2 widgets one for business calendar, one for birthdays
id=com.piyushsatija.pollutionmonitor Air pollution monitor - AQI (still not 100% happy with the look of this one)
id=com.weawow WEAWOW (weather) (alternatively CHRONUS but I like the look and feel of WEAWOW)
- 4 different widgets for current temperature (feeling), wind, precipitation , 7 hour forecast for current location.
id=xyz.masmas.clockwidget Clock widget
- clock
id=dk.nicolai.buch.andersen.glasswidgets Glass widgets (rss reader + other functionality - it was surprisingly hard to find a decent one fitting the black and white theme without unnecessary buttons)
- 2 widgets for local and world news
TODO:
- departure times (may depend on your location, will be easier for some countries and areas)
- a nicer air quality widget
- find a nice stand & a place where to put it
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Very very good idea.
I am testing to use as a home automation center.
I think CPL launcher might be a good alternative to Nova, with hide status bar (for rom without this function). I have to check if it has the possibility of overlapping widgets
I will follow your experiments!
Cool, glad to help.
Any widgets you recommend? I was thinking about some noise tracking or similar apps, but didn't research too much. Also still researching on where to place it and what kind of mount/power supply to use. Any suggestions are appreciated
Still playing around how to setup my Brilliant Smart lights as a widget (the native app widget is fugly and buggy) and experimenting with tasker. Plan to setup a Home Assistant server in the future, so maybe then.
A tip is to make the home screen grid as fine as necessary (I started with 4x5 and ended up with 8x6 icons as it allows for finer control of the widget placements).
New widgets:
Klara weather
Clean weather - for Air Quality Index information
Small update:
Related
came across this app, but its only on chinese but i try it out and its deft a way better Weather clock and widget and it has more options that any other weather app i seen...SOMEONE SHOULD TRY TO TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH AND IT WILL BE A PERFECT WEATHER APP...
IF ANYONE WANTS TO TRY IT OUT THE APK ARE DOWN BELOW SUPPORTS ALL ANDROID VERSIONS....
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Features Description:
1. Ink the best results in android on the interface of sliding further, to create stunning visual effects
2. Support bell flipformof the desktop widget, so users always see the weather that day
3. Supports almost all prefecture-level city of China, the total to 2642 region
4. Use for android optimized user habits
5. Relying on the ink's first weather data compression technology,updateddata traffic of a city less than 0.5k
6. Desktop widget can choose the backgroundcolor, up to 16,581,375 kinds of colors
7. Ink first message transmitted weather information is also inherited android platform, easy to remind family and friends pay attention to weather conditions
8. Support cmnet, cmwap, uninet, uniwap, 3gwap, wifi update
9. Data source accurately, thanabroadin any weatherplug-indata are accurate.
Desktop plug-in part of the main functions of the details of description:
1. Display selected cities, live weather and forecast the weather, current time, weather, updated updated.
2. Plugins adjustable background color, default is transparent glass effect. No plug-ins can also choose the background.
3. Selectable time digital color.
4. Click on the desktop plug-in can start the alarm clock time zone and time settings.
5. Click the name of the desktop plug-in city area, you can switch the plug-in display of the city.
6. Click on the desktop plug-in update time and date area, can immediately access live weather.
7. Support to set the time interval automatically update the weather.
8. Standby smart judge, plug-in auto-sleep, not to waste your electricity.
The main interface features some of the major details of description:
1. Include urban management, urban main interface,temperaturetrends of three interfaces.
2. Can influence the slide, drag, double sliding animation.
3. The city the main interface, the temperature trends to support the upper and lower slide switch cities.
4. Built-in shortcut to send the weather, you can share weather information via SMS to your friends.
Please note before downloading the mobile version of their own
android 1.5 (only supports 320 × 480)
Download
http://forum.mojichina.com/attachment.php?aid=MTU4NDB8OGUxNWNiOTJ8MTI3NjYyMTUwNHw4Y2I1YkZPZm01LzZLQWFHQjVFUEZyVUNmMFM0Z1lMdVgzZ0YxVnhXWktQbDZ3RQ%3D%3D
android 1.6,2.0,2.1,2.2 (support 240 × 320,320 × 480,480 × 800,480 × 854)
Download
http://forum.mojichina.com/attachment.php?aid=MTU4Mzl8Y2ZlNDM3NTh8MTI3NjYyMTUwNHw4Y2I1YkZPZm01LzZLQWFHQjVFUEZyVUNmMFM0Z1lMdVgzZ0YxVnhXWktQbDZ3RQ%3D%3D
CREDIT TO THE DEVELOPERS....
even though this ****z in spanish (joke) I figured out how to change the color.
1) tap the widget
2) press menu when the new screen pops up
3) press the button that looks like a tshirt
4)press the middle button that shows up it will give you some color choices
5)select the color you want then press the middle button
Coolest weather widget ever
getting a little bit closer found this
I managed to pull the xml use this code in androidsdk (if your androidsdk has been renamed androidsdk you can just copy and paste in command prompt
Code:
cd/
cd androidsdk/tools
adb pull /data/data/com.moji.weather/shared_prefs
only thing is that it's in chinese
I think this is what you're looking for:
h**p://slideme.org/application/wf-clock-widget
I use it and it's great!!
(sorry for the URL - forum wouldn't let me post it otherwise)
Or you could download Fancy Widget
came across this app, but its only on chinese but i try it out and its deft a way better Weather clock and widget and it has more options that any other weather app i seen...SOMEONE SHOULD TRY TO TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH AND IT WILL BE A PERFECT WEATHER APP...
IF ANYONE WANTS TO TRY IT OUT THE APK ARE DOWN BELOW SUPPORTS ALL ANDROID VERSIONS....
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Features Description:
1. Ink the best results in android on the interface of sliding further, to create stunning visual effects
2. Support bell flipformof the desktop widget, so users always see the weather that day
3. Supports almost all prefecture-level city of China, the total to 2642 region
4. Use for android optimized user habits
5. Relying on the ink's first weather data compression technology,updateddata traffic of a city less than 0.5k
6. Desktop widget can choose the backgroundcolor, up to 16,581,375 kinds of colors
7. Ink first message transmitted weather information is also inherited android platform, easy to remind family and friends pay attention to weather conditions
8. Support cmnet, cmwap, uninet, uniwap, 3gwap, wifi update
9. Data source accurately, thanabroadin any weatherplug-indata are accurate.
Desktop plug-in part of the main functions of the details of description:
1. Display selected cities, live weather and forecast the weather, current time, weather, updated updated.
2. Plugins adjustable background color, default is transparent glass effect. No plug-ins can also choose the background.
3. Selectable time digital color.
4. Click on the desktop plug-in can start the alarm clock time zone and time settings.
5. Click the name of the desktop plug-in city area, you can switch the plug-in display of the city.
6. Click on the desktop plug-in update time and date area, can immediately access live weather.
7. Support to set the time interval automatically update the weather.
8. Standby smart judge, plug-in auto-sleep, not to waste your electricity.
The main interface features some of the major details of description:
1. Include urban management, urban main interface,temperaturetrends of three interfaces.
2. Can influence the slide, drag, double sliding animation.
3. The city the main interface, the temperature trends to support the upper and lower slide switch cities.
4. Built-in shortcut to send the weather, you can share weather information via SMS to your friends.
Please note before downloading the mobile version of their own
android 1.5 (only supports 320 × 480)
Download
http://forum.mojichina.com/attachment.php?aid=MTU4NDB8OGUxNWNiOTJ8MTI3NjYyMTUwNHw4Y2I1YkZPZm01LzZLQWFHQjVFUEZyVUNmMFM0Z1lMdVgzZ0YxVnhXWktQbDZ3RQ%3D%3D
android 1.6,2.0,2.1,2.2 (support 240 × 320,320 × 480,480 × 800,480 × 854)
Download
http://forum.mojichina.com/attachment.php?aid=MTU4Mzl8Y2ZlNDM3NTh8MTI3NjYyMTUwNHw4Y2I1YkZPZm01LzZLQWFHQjVFUEZyVUNmMFM0Z1lMdVgzZ0YxVnhXWktQbDZ3RQ%3D%3D
CREDIT TO THE DEVELOPERS....
+1 for this
does look very nice
Wow, looks great! this would be perfect to have in english!
Hey, I'm using Weather Widget (yr.no) by Thomware. It's an accurate version of the HTC sense flip clock where the weather actually works. I like it because it has a neat 4x1 version as well as the norm.
http://www.ermesjo.org/blog/?page_id=66
Yes, thanks OFFWITH,
but i have try all this HTC look alike widgets (fancy widget, weather widget donate, weather widget (yr.no) , beautiful widgets and etcc... and this one is one of the best ones because it has alot of more options to choice from...just needs english version and it will be perfect
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Hi all! I'm Digitalhigh. I port MIUI for the evo 3d. Resultingly, I've spent a lot of time lately trying to get every little detail perfected. One of the things that bugs me is that the 2x4 weather widget is broken from the factory. Or, to be more precise, the weather feature refuses to work because they rely on their own built-in weather app, which doesn't work in the US.
There exist several clones of this app with varying functionality...one doesn't locate your position, another doesn't default to the system clock, etc., etc.
So, I set out to find a method to properly emulate the MIUI weather app without any loss of functionality or requirement to bounce between six different programs - and discovered UCCW.
(This is probably a great time to point out how bada$$ UCCW is. A lot of widgets are customizeable, but this one takes the cake. The built in WYSIWYG editor is just awesome).
The above image is the full set of weather icons created for this. I'd say about 75% of them are pulled straight from MIUI framework, and the other 25% were created by me to fill in the missing requirements for UCCW.
Original: VS Mine:
And, as you can see, the output is pretty danged good. I am still playing with fonts and such, but for now, I'd like to get feedback on how all the weather icons look. I live in the frigid wasteland known as Wisconsin, so most of my weather updates are going to be very nonplussed. So, if anybody using this has issues reading over any of the weather images, please take a screenshot and post it for me and I'll see what I can do for that image. Thanks!!
As this is designed for MIUI, the assigned hotzones are linked to MIUI apps, and may not work on other ROMS. If you know how to use UCCW, then you know it should be a snap to map these to your ROM's apps.
ALSO, this is designed for the evo 3d's screen, so I'm not sure how the dimensions will work out on other devices. Please let me know.
But - the clock links to the miui deskclock, the date links to the calendar, and clicking the weather icon links to the trusty ol' google news and weather app. Tap the top-right to get into UCCW editor.
So, yeah. Be gentle. I know the corners need a little work and it's my ultimate goal to fully scale the weather icons and add more features, but for what it is, I think it's a good start.
DOWNLOADS:
Download the skin
Download UCCW from the play store
Is it possible to show the weather as mph vs km, or is that just a limitation of UCCW?
Thanks in advance. Looks good! Keep up the great work
crevis24 said:
Is it possible to show the weather as mph vs km, or is that just a limitation of UCCW?
Thanks in advance. Looks good! Keep up the great work
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Unfortunately, that seems to be the one thing I couldn't find. I'm new to UCCM, so I'm really hoping I just don't know how to do it yet. It is possible to edit the suffix of the wind speed item - but I don't think that it actually changes the value to the MPH equivalent.
Right now I'm trying to do a better job with the overlay - you can kinda see where the mask is undercut by the weather image due to the weird scaling used by UCCW. So, I'm gonna redo every single weather icon and just use a blank bg - I hope this will do the trick. Once that's done, I plan on getting in touch with the author and seeing if that is a feature or if it can be added.
Best Application Launcher - program for quick running application by one gestures on screen and quick On/Off WIFI, GPS, BlueTooth. Not need click many buttons - Make ONE Gestures ! Tested on Android from version 2.3.3(on phone) to version 4.2.2(on the tablet), and all worked fine. On highest version android 4.4.2 - incorrect worked with layers of display , but if you can someone check and help to respond me - i not have device higher 4.2.2 version.
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The application run a programs by using preassigned recognition of gestures - with start point on field of button, following the shape moving of the finger- example (using vector analysis ). It replaces the classic pictograms.
Full Version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.launcher
Lite Version(Small Vectors): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.launcherLite
Launcher - is always displayed on top of other runnable applications in a the transparent of a square highlighted by default red frame - does not interfere with to other programs and reading of text and does not take much space. Battery pack does not consume as in itself does not do anything in the background - just waiting for events onTouch function.
To control the program's earlier opened - opens a list of all running software, where you can quickly switch between them or close them (but only if they work in the background). Also at the top of the list are three buttons: 'Close the program', 'Menu', 'Minimize List'.
For operation of can use eight basic gestures finger movement, with pitch between vector directions 45 degrees, you can also use a combination of vectors in two directions, for example: upward and then left, left - then down, etc.
Of course you can used to bind programs different gestures in the menu configuration (Settings).
In the settings for my application, you can also change the appearance of Best App Launcher shape of fonts. Also there is a 'Excludes Application'-a list of open applications android, or rarely system utilities external services - work as active and which cause an error when you switch to them. Since sometimes fall on the list active of user task, such system utilities can be marked as' Excludes 'so they will not show up of the custom list programs.
Default management Best App Launcher set eight gestures:
1(UpRight) - Open the program settings
2(Right) - Minimize all open Activiti (applications) in the background
3(DownRight) - Close the program
67(Left then UpLeft) - Open the settings menu android
65(Left then DownLeft) - See the screen resolution.
87(Up then UpLeft) - FAST ON/OFF WIFI !
78(UpLeft then Up) - ON/OFF GPS
76(UpLeft then Left) - ON/OFF BlueTooth
Moving Launcher icon on the screen - this is done by dragging a button with delaying of the click on the icon, greater than 2.5 seconds; after removal of retention clicking- icon is positioned at the new location. If pressing the button Best App Launcher was less than 2.5 seconds - then starts the analysis finger motion vectors and the program begin to work search tied to this vector the set configuration (if something is scheduled for this vector).
The program is added to the AutoRun.
In the future I plan to add the ability to display instead pictograms Best App Launcher - of the clock / date, alarm clocks, quick opening the list of take brief notes, exchange rates, quick On/Off GSM Radio Module, ON/OFF AutoRotation and Rotation Screen, encryption Messenger by PGP dual keys and other details and information... at the request of of users - should any arise.
Small update for version - fix some errors. Check please - people : - )
gestures
Gestures are not working on 4.4kitkat
help
Why not use Unity Launcher sorry can not provide link check out on play store. the best.
nihalr2 said:
Why not use Unity Launcher
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For him - need more space on screen, slow and many click for launch/switch apps.
I have used Beautiful Widgets for my home screen widget for quite some time but now the clock does give the correct time and its geolocation does not update. Looking at the app store there are multiple reports of similar problems and the dev does not seem to be updating the app now. Screenshot attached.
Are there any similar easy to use widgets to give a similar HTC sense clock appearance and weather? In particular I need added functionality such as being able to customise multiple areas to click and open certain apps. I've looked on the app store and the closest I found was the 3D flip clock but like some others I tried the widget does not fill the whole area and leaves a space on the sides and below on my Note 9 screen which looks awkward.
Cheers for any suggestions.
You can give HD Widgets a try. It is customizable and you can probably get close to what you need. It has time and weather (temp current weather and forecast)
It has clickable areas for the clock, weather forecast
You can also set up specific apps for each clickable location.
Kash said:
I have used Beautiful Widgets for my home screen widget for quite some time but now the clock does give the correct time and its geolocation does not update. Looking at the app store there are multiple reports of similar problems and the dev does not seem to be updating the app now. Screenshot attached.
Are there any similar easy to use widgets to give a similar HTC sense clock appearance and weather? In particular I need added functionality such as being able to customise multiple areas to click and open certain apps. I've looked on the app store and the closest I found was the 3D flip clock but like some others I tried the widget does not fill the whole area and leaves a space on the sides and below on my Note 9 screen which looks awkward.
Cheers for any suggestions.
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HD widgets on mine
I agree. I use HD Widgets for clock/weather & then stock Samsung calendar/appointment widget. Hope this leads you to finding something that works for you.
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Beautiful Widgets
I use BW as well and this was happening to me until I went in to Settings>General >Weather data provider and switched it to AccuWeather instead of using Weather Underground. Weather Underground doesn't work for me at all, but AccuWeather works just fine. I hope this helps.
Thanks for the replies! I managed to get beautiful widgets working by going to "Optomise battery usage" in phone settings and switch this OFF for the widget, now all working again! If it stops then HD widget looks similar and slick!