Hello all Devs,
We have a very simple Appointment widget, is it possible to make it bit nicer and useful?
suggestions:
1. customizable range for appointments to show
2. customize look and organization of appointments like in HERO Sense UI
3. Transparency
I know there are range of free calender widgets but why not something built-in and/or modded. Makes life easier. I am the kind of person who likes to keep apps to the minimum.
Thanks and if this is wrong place to post this, please move it to the right place MODs.
yeah, I hate the stock calendar, can't get used to it. I like the Gemini Calendar, but need a 4x4 widget.
schtuka said:
yeah, I hate the stock calendar, can't get used to it. I like the Gemini Calendar, but need a 4x4 widget.
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well, that said, we are talking about different things, I dont want a complete Calender replacement, just the modified Widget of it.
However, we agree that it needs to be changed, hopefully some Dev(s) will come forward.
Honestly, what's the difference between a market-downloaded widget and an XDA-downloaded mod/hack? It still requires extra effort. If you really want a gold star, you could commit those modifications back to Google's Android Open Source Project so they would come out of the box, perhaps with Gingerbread or H[named treat here].
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Honestly, what's the difference between a market-downloaded widget and an XDA-downloaded mod/hack? It still requires extra effort. If you really want a gold star, you could commit those modifications back to Google's Android Open Source Project so they would come out of the box, perhaps with Gingerbread or H[named treat here].
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well said, but dont you see the possibility that, if we have such a Mod, some chefs might just use that mod in their ROMs (just like the modded Music.apk) and by flashing that ROM we could have everything set?
Thanks for sharing ideas
Hi All,
Any one got some good turorials on theme development for android?
Specifically would like to start developing my own home screen, with my own unlock slider.
I have played with developing a few small apps for fun but have now reached a confidence level where I recon I can do more.
So I made my Homescreen too look like WP7 but I was wondering is there a way to have animated gif widgets?
Have a look at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html if you have no experience making widgets. It's possible to make one that's animated by breaking the gif apart and making the widget one big ImageView that's constantly being updated with the new frames, but it might have adverse effects on your battery. I don't think it'll animate on it's own if you simply supply a gif as the drawable for the imageview.
aww man I think making widgets is way beyond my scope I would definitely try it maybe I just got into the whole rooting and flashing roms like a week ago =P but thank you for the reply
No problem, dude. Check out a book called 'Professional Android 2 Application Development' by Rito Meier if you want to take a crack at developing android apps. It's a pretty good book and goes over most of the "fun" stuff (includes widgets, live wallpapers), as well as the basics. You should probably read some Java tutorials beforehand if you've never done any sort of programming, since the book kind of assumes you know that. Good luck!
Hello. I just wanted to discuss a little bit about the animations in the android operating system, or rather lack there of. I'm not a developer or coder, so maybe someone in the community can enlighten me a little bit on this topic and maybe perhaps let the rest of us know the direction and future of things to come. maybe there are projects that are currently being worked on that most of us don't know about or haven't heard of yet.
What i was wondering was how come there is so little animation going on in the Android UI itself. I've seen Launchers or shells such as Next Launcher or TSF Laucher which have beautiful animations and transistions, but how come some of these elements haven't been carried over to the android OS itself? One of the major things i've been wanting to see (something that i don't even think 3rd party launchers can do yet) is animated icons. Why is it that on older generation phones (if you recall old nokia monochrome phones and old motorola razor type phones) the little icons used to animate when you used to scroll over them, but on these newer generation phones with quadcore and even octocore processors we still do not have animated icons??? Or how about animated widgets. I have done many extensive searches to find animated widgets, and at best you get like 2 results. Why aren't there more animated widgets such as cool clock widgets that animate?
Thanks for reading my post. I just wanted to open a discussion on this and see if anyone else has any views or input on this.
I know a few years ago there was a Dev who working on and off for a Sony Ericsson type launcher (XPMB), which I will include below. I asked the dev if I could use his app and make some adjustments to work as a portrait and horizontal launcher and he allowed me too. However to my technical limitations I was not able to do what I was wanting to. Is there any other apps out there to to that mimic this idea, or does anyone have any tips for me to create one? And yes I know smart launcher is similar however not exactly what I'm looking for..
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2114346