Just a quick suggestion to android devs who may want to make a buck or two!
Make a live wallpaper that pulls weather information down every hour or so and sets the background to that animated weather. The goal would be to get it working the same way as the HD2's animated weather backgrounds do.
I'd code this myself if I could, but I'm a little bit on the coding-challenged side. I'll type a few lines of code regardless and see what I can do.
If someone did this elegantly I would definitely pay for it!
EDIT: The developer of 'Beautiful Widgets' has said he's working on exactly this. When paired with the Beautiful Home Widget, it will display a live animation of the current weather based on what the widget's weather is.
nice idea... i wud buy it too
ruslanriad said:
nice idea... i wud buy it too
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I wouldn't.... All I'd see is rain!
No, sounds really clever and frees up screen space as no widget required!
Whoops, posted in the wrong forum. Sorry!
Oh very nice! Not an original concept, but it is an interesting thought! I would love for this to be done.
Eclair~ said:
Oh very nice! Not an original concept, but it is an interesting thought! I would love for this to be done.
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No it's a blatant ripoff of the HD2 UI. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be sweet though.
There's a few live wallpapers in the marketplace at the moment that are very close to this idea. One switches the background based on weather to a static image of your choice, and the other pulls down Flickr pictures around your area of the current weather.
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EDIT: The developer of 'Beautiful Widgets' has said he's working on exactly this. When paired with the Beautiful Home Widget, it will display a live animation of the current weather based on what the widget's weather is.
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What if you don't want the clock on the screen though?
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What if you don't want the clock on the screen though?
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I asked him via twitter, hope to get a response.
That would be LOVELY !! I would defenitly pay for that. I hope someone takes up this idea and make it happen !.
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I asked him via twitter, hope to get a response.
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Thanks!
Just to add to this idea, it would be cool if the "live weather" background would use the screen itself as a "window" where raindrops would splash on it (when it's rainy outside). When it's sunny, it could also use the compass and accelerometer to (roughly) identify where the sun is and show glare circles that point to the direction of the sun.
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Just to add to this idea, it would be cool if the "live weather" background would use the screen itself as a "window" where raindrops would splash on it (when it's rainy outside). When it's sunny, it could also use the compass and accelerometer to (roughly) identify where the sun is and show glare circles that point to the direction of the sun.
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That sounds amazing but all those sensor reading and screen updates are gonna sting the battery I would think.
Any updates?
I'm Working on it.
It's my first app for Android so it's not so easy...
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I'm Working on it.
It's my first app for Android so it's not so easy...
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Thankkkkkkkkkkkkkk yooou!
Sounds great! Ignore the battery use in beta, lol..
Subscribed.
great stuff. i am kind of hooked up on the live earth wallpaper bandwagon, but the weather wallpaper sounds exciting. keep on it
after using the weather live wallpaper on the desire
i would really like to see this for aosp
edit - pushing the htcweatherwallpaper.apk doesnt work
Subscribed as well... If this thing releases and works, it is going to kill my wife and her iPhone...
sounds like something from HTC
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I've tried looking into this myself, but with full time job, full time college, and new wife, don't much time. I read somewhere that the openGL 'fix' actually breaks it, defaulting to base driver or something, which makes sense since all the 3d either breaks or doesn't run (games, nav, etc.) So would it be possible to add a line to the wallpapers then that openGL=0 or something? Telling the wallpaper to not use openGL?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668257
check these out I put them together for people that wanted some LWP and Weather Animations and the 3D back. Note that not all the LWP will stick but check it out if this is what you want
yeah, I saw that, great work! I'm really interested in getting other wallpapers to stick that don't now. Like earth rotate, galaxy, etc.
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yeah, I saw that, great work! I'm really interested in getting other wallpapers to stick that don't now. Like earth rotate, galaxy, etc.
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well those LWP's work and stick up until the weather animations come up so i would imagine that if you delete the weather animations then the other LWP would work
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well those LWP's work and stick up until the weather animations come up so i would imagine that if you delete the weather animations then the other LWP would work
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I don't use the HTC weather widget so those animations never come up. Yet nothing sticks aside from a few that have been mentioned previously (bezier, digital rain, fireworks, etc).
exactly. They do when openGL is broken, so I'm hoping someone here will know if we can add a line to a smali or something to not use it for that app. I've tried looking through all the smali's, xml's, etc. and don't see anything that looks like it could just be changed, so a line may be able to be added, but I wouldn't know where or the exact syntax.
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Hi everyone,
I'm very new at this site and not sure if it is the right place post the thread but anyway.
A friend of mine and I are especially interested in cooking Cookie Home Tab widgets. We are located in Russia and primary doing iPhone development but I have some win mo relevant experience.
We got a few things working like google search and notes.
As for now it is buggy and design is ugly=)
We'll continue our work and finally I hope will release a widgets pack.
I'd like to get some help :
1. Please vote for widgets that you like most of all
You can post Android or Yahoo widgets links for reference
2. We are looking for a designer who can make it all look better and work on skin packs
I will put it all together at my site next week.
Please let me know your thoughts
I would appreciate any feedback
"I really would like to have a widget for the alarm clock. Even a shotcut would be handy. For further improvments, it could show if the alarm is active and remaining time until the alarm."
As I can see Alarm link is available in Appointment Widget.
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"I really would like to have a widget for the alarm clock. Even a shotcut would be handy. For further improvments, it could show if the alarm is active and remaining time until the alarm."
As I can see Alarm link is available in Appointment Widget.
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yes , independent alarm widget or free link is much needed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840000
"Is it possible to make a Photo widget and Calender widget? Emails and messages have been able to be ported across, is it possible to bring the Sense flip photos and calander across???"
Our first priority would be new functionality but not the port of existing one.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840000
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I like the idea. Will take a look from implementation perspective.
It would be great if you can workout some screen shots for "Alarm","Search" and "Quick Notes" in "windroid" look and feel.
If you need any help with skins for the widgets then I'd be happy to help.....
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As I can see Alarm link is available in Appointment Widget.
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Yes but it is a very small button and it comes with digital clock which is unnecessary. Also it is hard to tell if the alarm is on or off by looking that button.
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If you need any help with skins for the widgets then I'd be happy to help.....
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Right now the widgets that are in progress do not have any skin at all.
It is just an input box for search and white area for notes.
I'd like to get some ideas for design.
It should be simple, intuitive and follow general manila look and feel.
I would appreciate any art works for now.
We can make a simple voting and choose the most popular to apply.
However I'd like to provide several skins and layouts for each widget in future.
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Yes but it is a very small button and it comes with digital clock which is unnecessary. Also it is hard to tell if the alarm is on or off by looking that button.
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I hope we would get some visual presentation for the alarm widget.
Please feel free to post any suggestions.
The implementation looks pretty simple if we gonna use standard alarm to grep some data. I will take a look and get back to you soon.
Any chance of getting a hold of the basic image files you have? just to get a feel for the dimensions and what goes where??
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Any chance of getting a hold of the basic image files you have? just to get a feel for the dimensions and what goes where??
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I will post it here a little bit later.
Just got a simple wireframe for livescore widget.
Still far away from ideal but it is a first picture here)
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Just got a simple wireframe for livescore widget.
Still far away from ideal but it is a first picture here)
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I see the soccer ball and have to wonder if this will include other sports like american football
a notes widget.
I think it'd be awesome to have notes displayed in a similar effort to that of the sms widget but maybe in yellow like post its
Symondo said:
a notes widget.
I think it'd be awesome to have notes displayed in a similar effort to that of the sms widget but maybe in yellow like post its
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Agree. I think I saw exactly the same notes widget for Evo.
Check the image
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I see the soccer ball and have to wonder if this will include other sports like american football
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Well. I know how to use services for soccer.
If you can suggest some resources(web services to get the latest result) for NBA, NHL and AFL it would be great
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I will post it here a little bit later.
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Here is how I expect it to look like.
Some very basic view for alarm widget
UPDATE (9/21/2012): We've posted a new version of Claystone - v2.4 - to Google Play @ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.claystoneinc !
We've taken a lot of the feedback discovered here in this thread to improve the app, including re-introducing theme support, weather panels, and more.
Check it out and let us know what you think. Thanks!
Claystone Team
http://www.claystoneinc.com
Great launcher
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This launcher rocks!!!!! Thanks
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yeah so I've used just about every launcher out there, and this launcher made me jizz myself.
only issue is the built in browser doesn't support java?
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Fuuuck me this is a...confusing beauty.... still a beauty. Will give this a go! Foooooooooooooooo sure
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I love the update and hope they keep coming. Here's a few things I tried to do but couldn't and some I'd like to see:
Ability to add, change, and customize the dock,
Multiselect apps to add to a pane
Change the transition effect from fade
Pinch and zoom to activate expose'
Swipe up and down actions
Would love a running apps dock
LANDSCAPE SUPPORT!
Ability to change themes or customize them more....especially icons
That's all for now,
Cheers!
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yeah so I've used just about every launcher out there, and this launcher made me jizz myself.
only issue is the built in browser doesn't support java?
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Haha - hilarious.
Re: web + java. No, not right now. I know it's an oversight, but definitely something we want to tie in sooner rather than later.
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I love the update and hope they keep coming. Here's a few things I tried to do but couldn't and some I'd like to see:
Ability to add, change, and customize the dock,
Multiselect apps to add to a pane
Change the transition effect from fade
Pinch and zoom to activate expose'
Swipe up and down actions
Would love a running apps dock
LANDSCAPE SUPPORT!
Ability to change themes or customize them more....especially icons
That's all for now,
Cheers!
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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Great, great feedback. Thank you!
Some of these are already on our plate - working on getting dock customization in ASAP - but those that aren't are going straight from your keyboard to the developer's ears. Thanks, again!
My phone's being repaired right now, so I can't try this. Are scrolling widgets supported?
Awesome work !! Really a good launcher. Makes my iFriends go green
Will post any features needed/ bugs
willing to try this and have great faith in the project. I love seeing a launcher with a difference and will download in the morning to my vibrant running cyanogen mod. finally if you are in need of a beta tester please let me know and I will do anything to help.
I like it.
Down points-
Slow to scroll from screen to screen
Confused on how to resize widgets.
I didn't see how to change what screen goes in what order. Example-I could never get my homescreen to be the middle screen instead of the 1st screen.
I think I'd like a swipe up gesture that allows quick screens glance rather than the middle dock button being the quick screen glance.
I give you props on this. It's turning out nicely and will continue to do so!
Nitro_123 said:
Awesome work !! Really a good launcher. Makes my iFriends go green
Will post any features needed/ bugs
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Haha - glad to hear. Thanks!
Vulpix said:
My phone's being repaired right now, so I can't try this. Are scrolling widgets supported?
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I'd like to say yes, but unfortunately they're not in this latest release. That said, let me see what I can do to sneak them into an upcoming build.
Hope your phone comes back better than ever.
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willing to try this and have great faith in the project. I love seeing a launcher with a difference and will download in the morning to my vibrant running cyanogen mod. finally if you are in need of a beta tester please let me know and I will do anything to help.
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Great, glad to hear. It's always a challenge trying to do something different, but totally worthwhile.
Any feedback you could offer would be much appreciated!
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I like it.
Down points-
Slow to scroll from screen to screen
Confused on how to resize widgets.
I didn't see how to change what screen goes in what order. Example-I could never get my homescreen to be the middle screen instead of the 1st screen.
I think I'd like a swipe up gesture that allows quick screens glance rather than the middle dock button being the quick screen glance.
I give you props on this. It's turning out nicely and will continue to do so!
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Gotcha.
In terms of the widget resizing, if you long hold on a widget and tap 'Resize' you'll notice the bounding box + arrows pop up. From there, you should be able to resize by tapping and dragging on the arrows to get the dimensions needed (if you're not seeing the arrows or that functionality's not working, definitely let me know).
Re: setting the order of screens - we don't have that included now, but it's already in the works for a release in the very short-term.
Lastly, hadn't considered the upward swipe gesture idea. Let me stew on it for a bit and see if there's something we can do there.
Thanks for taking the time to drop the feedback - love it!
I am trying the Launcher (although I prefer plain vanilla LauncherPro). It's tricky trying to get use to using this. I am so use to using an almost empty, plain desktop.
I wanted to try this because of the news feeds as it seems easier than opening the browser and going to the news sites.
really good, but on my sensation (960x540 px resolution) the themes doesnt resize properly, there are blurry icons and backgrounds. only the widgets are looking ok. i hope youll make it compatible with qHD (960x540) resolution.
glad to see that you are working on the screen order feature
a setting to change the transition effect and a running apps panel (task manager) would be very nice!
i dont like the photos panel, i cant scroll through the photos when i select one from the list, i must first go in fullscreen mode... it should be more like gallery 3D ^^
waiting for the next update
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I am trying the Launcher (although I prefer plain vanilla LauncherPro). It's tricky trying to get use to using this. I am so use to using an almost empty, plain desktop.
I wanted to try this because of the news feeds as it seems easier than opening the browser and going to the news sites.
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Totally understand - it's a bit of a departure from layouts featured in ADW, LauncherPro, etc.
In fact, one area in which we need to improve in is explaining the basics of Claystone. Once you play around with it it starts to come together, but we've got to do a better job in bridging that gap.
Thankfully, I've got a Word doc in front of me ready to be dumped into an HTML layout with the aim of having that ready within the week!
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really good, but on my sensation (960x540 px resolution) the themes doesnt resize properly, there are blurry icons and backgrounds. only the widgets are looking ok. i hope youll make it compatible with qHD (960x540) resolution.
glad to see that you are working on the screen order feature
a setting to change the transition effect and a running apps panel (task manager) would be very nice!
i dont like the photos panel, i cant scroll through the photos when i select one from the list, i must first go in fullscreen mode... it should be more like gallery 3D ^^
waiting for the next update
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Of those, I can tell you that a 'Running Tasks' panel is ridiculously close to being included (as in: we've had it in there, but haven't quite finalized it yet in deference to other features).
In terms of qHD compatibility and revised photo functionality, I can't promise that they'll be featured in the next build or two, but can say I'll bring them to the team and see where we can slide them in on a priority scale amidst other feature development.
Really appreciate you helping out - thanks!
hey i was just curious if there is a way to change your city on the weather app (not just look at another city). i know your city is found by your location but i want to see if there is anyway to change it to another city your not in right now
Open weather add city
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Open weather add city
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thats not what i was asking but thanks anyway. what im asking is is there any way for the lock screen and your home screen to show the weather for another city besides the one you are in now?
soooo i figured out how to change the city on the famous clock/weather widget on the home screen all you have to do is hold the widget like you are going to remove it from the screen but instead drag it to "edit" in the top left and voila! you can also see full screen animations as an option which looks pretty cool
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soooo i figured out how to change the city on the famous clock/weather widget on the home screen all you have to do is hold the widget like you are going to remove it from the screen but instead drag it to "edit" in the top left and voila! you can also see full screen animations as an option which looks pretty cool
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This is the exact same thing as gunnyman told you to do, you just got there in the more complicated way,
thinking outside the box...
bugga214 said:
hey i was just curious if there is a way to change your city on the weather app (not just look at another city). i know your city is found by your location but i want to see if there is anyway to change it to another city your not in right now
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not everyone has the means or resources for this method, but you could move to that "other city". very low-tech resolution.
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This is the exact same thing as gunnyman told you to do, you just got there in the more complicated way,
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I already have two other cities added in the weather app. I just wanted to know if there was any way to view say Miami's weather on my home screen when I'm in NY without having to select the weather app and go to the city. The way I said how to do it avoids having to click on the weather app because it shows it on the home screen.
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This is the exact same thing as gunnyman told you to do, you just got there in the more complicated way,
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No, Gunny was adding it to the App, he was adding it to the Weather Clock widget, they're different procedures.
You just found a ? magical weather app!
Meet YoWindow Weather.
Play Store: Awesome Weather YoWindow
What's so special?
? The landscapes.
When it's raining outside, it is raining in the app, and people open their umbrellas.
Birds are singing and animals are strolling about in the Village. People and cars abound in the City. Planes are landing at the Airport. Sheep are grazing in the Valley.
Motion in time. Swipe the screen to scroll the time forward.
That's how you watch the weather forecast in YoWindow.
? The sun sets at the same time as in the real world. The phase of the moon is real.
? The seasons are changing along with nature 5 times a year.
? Yes, you can set YoWindow as your Live Wallpaper. And there are a bunch of widgets.
? The weather on your photo. Any weather condition looks natural on photographs. Try to make a landscape from the view of your window.
?️ Radar and Weather Map.
? Make your Android happy.
- Temperature on the status bar.
- Weather forecast in the notification area.
- Alarm clock with the weather — two in one — wake up to the sounds of nature.
- Screensaver (Daydream) "weather on the phone screen."
- Android TV support.
The link to BETA version (no ads)
https://rink.hockeyapp.net/apps/a8f060f7c81e002fb219aa8648b53fb7
Unlimited edition.
Play Store: YoWindow Weather
No ads, all photo-landscapes available, weather forecast in notification area.
If you have an idea or found a problem - let us know.
Pavel Repkin
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Hi, guys!
9 months ago we had an idea how to make a handy and a beautiful weather for Android.
It's time to deliver.
Meet YoWindow Weather!
See the attached screen-shots.
Since I've just registered on XDA, I'm not allowed to post public links.
The link to download the latest YoWindow 0.89 is in my profile/contact-info/Home Page
What's so special?
- Animated landscape reflects the actual weather (sky, wind, fog), time (Sun, Moon) and season (5 states).
- Motion in time. Swipe the screen to scroll the time forward.
That's how you watch the weather forecast in YoWindow.
- YoWindow Live Wallpaper + Widgets - turn Android desktop into a beautiful weather station.
Tapping on a widget reflects the day/time/location in the wallpaper.
Mod Edit: Link to the app:
https://rink.hockeyapp.net/apps/a8f060f7c81e002fb219aa8648b53fb7
We are going to launch in a two weeks on Google Play.
If you have an idea or found a problem - let us know.
Pavel Repkin, YoWindow Weather project founder.
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I just added the link to your OP. Hope it helps
Widget looks great on my MI3, great job :good:
We are very greateful egzthunder1 for featuring YoWindow on XDA.
Otherwise the project would gone unnoticed.
Thank you for the wonderful review!
Guys, my name is Pavel, I'm one of the authors of the project.
AMA!
Hope you guys can add Mi Pad (Xiaomi) as one of the compatible devices
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Hope you guys can add Mi Pad (Xiaomi) as one of the compatible devices
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YoWindow supports Android 2.3+
As far as I can see Mi Pad runs on Android 4.4.
So what's up?
Works wonders guys! Great job! Looks really neat on my Nexus 5
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Works wonders guys! Great job! Looks really neat on my Nexus 5
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Thank you
Good evening a question please This application is only for tablet ? thanks
nek46 said:
Good evening a question please This application is only for tablet ? thanks
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YoWindow is a universal app - both for tablets and smart phones!
try the BETA version seems to work well
How do I delete some cities ?
Is it possible to Create widget 4X1 thanks
I'll give it a try. I'm still looking for the perfect weather app.
My only deal breaker when it comes to weather apps: Clocks. I hate clock widgets. I hate weather widgets that have clocks on them. I can't understand why they are so prevalent. It's torture.
Looks, nice however got a nice bootloop when trying to pen it on the n7 2013 running L. Is it only good up to kk?
Option to delete a city appears when you long-press a city
Question about addition of a city in the database:
I wanted to add the city "l'Hospitalet de l'Infant" in Spain, and added the request on the website. But I had some difficulties to understand how to find its geoname-id (even I read the forum). I finally found it, and added it, but maybe you could add in your forum a simple way to get it, for people like who don't know
Else all is ok, widget and wallpaper. It's very nice.
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try the BETA version seems to work well
How do I delete some cities ?
Is it possible to Create widget 4X1 thanks
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To delete a city follow these steps
1. Tap on location name to open the list of favorite locations
2. Long tap on the location you want to delete.
A popup menu to appear.
3. Choose Delete from the menu,
No, widget 4x1 is not available yet.
Stay tuned!
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I'll give it a try. I'm still looking for the perfect weather app.
My only deal breaker when it comes to weather apps: Clocks. I hate clock widgets. I hate weather widgets that have clocks on them. I can't understand why they are so prevalent. It's torture.
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There are no clocks so far in YoWindow widgets.
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I wanted to add the city "l'Hospitalet de l'Infant" in Spain, and added the request on the website. But I had some difficulties to understand how to find its geoname-id (even I read the forum). I finally found it, and added it, but maybe you could add in your forum a simple way to get it, for people like who don't know
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We are having a minor problem with our servers.
As soon as it will be resolved the location should be available on Android and iOS.
I expect in 30 - 50 minutes.
Thank you so much for such a positive comment
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Looks, nice however got a nice bootloop when trying to pen it on the n7 2013 running L. Is it only good up to kk?
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YoWindow is not supporting L, unfortunately so far.
That's because of a piece of C++ code that crashes by an unknown reason.
We don't have a device to test L on.
So that's kind of a problem.
I hope to take care about it after the release rush is over.
Thanks for reporting anyway
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We are having a minor problem with our servers.
As soon as it will be resolved the location should be available on Android and iOS.
I expect in 30 - 50 minutes.
Thank you so much for such a positive comment
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Thx, there is nothing urgent, of course.
Can I suggest you something: on the widget, there is no option to update its parameters directly. Could we imagine to have a "parameter" icon on the widget?
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Thx, there is nothing urgent, of course.
Can I suggest you something: on the widget, there is no option to update its parameters directly. Could we imagine to have a "parameter" icon on the widget?
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I'm not sure if I understand you correctly.
Do you mean "Update weather" button?