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[Idea] Weather Live Wallpaper

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.

cekle said:
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?

Android Touch said:
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 !.

cekle said:
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.

denimjunkie82 said:
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...

billy_boolean said:
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

Friendstream replacement for AOSP ROMs?

This is the only thing that I've been missing since moving from a Sense ROM/launcher.
Does a nice scrollable widget exist that's similar to the stock Friendstream one?
EDIT: I've tried out Socialite, but it seems to never sync properly and eventually force closes on the CyanogenMod nightly builds.

I miss it too.

Try Pure Messenger Widget.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.org-koxx-pure_messenger-zmmq.aspx

joackie27 said:
Try Pure Messenger Widget.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.org-koxx-pure_messenger-zmmq.aspx
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OP if you try Pure Messenger let us know what you think. I use Socialite and it seems to work okay... but could be better of course.

spiicytuna said:
OP if you try Pure Messenger let us know what you think. I use Socialite and it seems to work okay... but could be better of course.
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EDIT: I was just too tired to realize what I was doing incorrectly. Trying to get a widget setup that looks decent.
All of the different variants of the Sense style widgets look really "off" for some reason. Looking further, it's definitely the pictures, as they trail a bit off the left side of the widget. (See pic)
I'm also not fond of the left/right arrows on the widget. I only set up FB, so I don't need non-working buttons.

Pure Messenger will make you forget Friend Stream every existed.

TooSlo said:
EDIT: I was just too tired to realize what I was doing incorrectly. Trying to get a widget setup that looks decent.
All of the different variants of the Sense style widgets look really "off" for some reason. Looking further, it's definitely the pictures, as they trail a bit off the left side of the widget. (See pic)
I'm also not fond of the left/right arrows on the widget. I only set up FB, so I don't need non-working buttons.
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Use the scrollable version with ADW/LauncherPro. It is better than FriendStream.
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Nice setup TheBiles.
PureMessenger > friendstream with the ability to use skins, add email and sms along with twitter and FB to stream, ability to select preferred clients for clicked feed, and oodles of config settings in a nice scrollable UI with ADW or launcherPRO. Well worth a buck-fifty.

I wouldn't consider Pure messenger better than Friendstream myself.
It's nice... but sadly needs a few fixes in my opinion
1) Won't display 'mobile upload' picture notifications properly. It only shows 1 picture in the internal viewer with no way to go directly to the person's photo list.
2) Pictures display as filenames in the list view, rather than the actual thumbnail as sense does. (This might be considered user preference, but I'd prefer to see a picture rather than <randomwords>.jpg )
3) No support for built in HTC applications for Facebook nor Twitter (aka peep). While the internal viewer can be dismissed in favor of a real 'app', the selection is limited to bout 3-6 apps none of which are the built in parts of HTC's rom. (Of course if you're not using HTC roms then this isn't problem
Overall it's a great app, and the best out there I've seen, don't get me wrong.. but Friendstream still has the edge in actual functionality for basic use. Sure, No themes, lack of customization hurt, but when it comes down to using the product for what it's intended for (Keeping up with posts/photos from your friends) it has a few issues IMO.

Socailite, its from LG but u can find the apk on here

davebu said:
Socailite, its from LG but u can find the apk on here
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The OP said it wasn't working for him in the first post...
Sent on the go from my HTC EVO

Had a chance to play with Pure Messenger Widget a bit more today.
Overall it seems "ok" but lacking in some ways as well. You can't post directly from the widget, which is a huge strike against it. I want the widget so I don't have to clutter my homescreens with redundant apps.
Guess I accidentally went past my 24 hours so I am the proud owner, or some such thing.
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Use the scrollable version with ADW/LauncherPro. It is better than FriendStream.
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I'm using the scrollable widget currently, and like I said, it's neat to watch updates, but it's a killer that I don't see an obvious way to post anything to FB/Twitter through the widget, instead I'm forced to use the app.
It just feels "clunky" for lack of a better term.
I will say that the widgets can be set up to look better, it just seems that some of the skins are definitely not ones any OCD person would want to use.

TooSlo said:
EDIT: I was just too tired to realize what I was doing incorrectly. Trying to get a widget setup that looks decent.
All of the different variants of the Sense style widgets look really "off" for some reason. Looking further, it's definitely the pictures, as they trail a bit off the left side of the widget. (See pic)
I'm also not fond of the left/right arrows on the widget. I only set up FB, so I don't need non-working buttons.
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Which launcher is that? How do you get it to look like that?
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

DanBergundy said:
Which launcher is that? How do you get it to look like that?
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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It's Launcher Pro. I'm using the Froyo wide dock (in settings) and just setting up normal apps and using the Launcher Pro icons for them.
I like how it looks with a nice black/white theme.

TooSlo said:
Had a chance to play with Pure Messenger Widget a bit more today.
Overall it seems "ok" but lacking in some ways as well. You can't post directly from the widget, which is a huge strike against it. I want the widget so I don't have to clutter my homescreens with redundant apps.
Guess I accidentally went past my 24 hours so I am the proud owner, or some such thing.
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Erm. You just click that little star, and select "update status." You never have to open the official apps. You can also click that little arrow and select "open Facebook" so you don't ever need an icon on the screen in the first place.

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Use the scrollable version with ADW/LauncherPro. It is better than FriendStream.
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Where did you get that toolbar at the bottom. It looks a lot like mine but with a few more icons. Is that a 4g between the wireless and sat?

PAPutzback said:
Where did you get that toolbar at the bottom. It looks a lot like mine but with a few more icons. Is that a 4g between the wireless and sat?
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That's Extended Controls. The second icon is the Froyo hotspot toggle, but it does have a 4G toggle option. I just don't have it on there because 4G doesn't work with CyanogenMod at the moment.

TheBiles said:
Erm. You just click that little star, and select "update status." You never have to open the official apps. You can also click that little arrow and select "open Facebook" so you don't ever need an icon on the screen in the first place.
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Well crap, it looks as though I'd always been fat-fingering the arrow and only saw the "open Facebook" link in there.
I recant my previous statements and accept that this is a damn fine alternative to Friendstream. (after a little getting used to)

The only issue that I have with Pure Messenger is this: When a FB contact posts something on someones' wall it doesn't show who the other person is, even if the other person is one of your contacts it doesn't show.

Got socialite running on newest cyanogen nightly. Its pretty nice really, I actually like it better than friend stream.

[APP] Contactz Call Widget

Good Day everyone,
We would like to introduce our first widget here to gather feedback from all the android user/developers in the forum.
Basically the concept is to provide a huge/big contact widget to make it earsier for user to make phone call under certain condition. (driving, or fast call using single hand). Beside that, this we also provide the features for user to choose their own skin/frames of preferences.
Below are the official description in the Market:
Create Simple Life - Add your favourite contact to your homescreen.
With this, a call or SMS to your favourite contact is just a touch away.
Boring with the dull Android call widget?
We provide you the option to choose your own preference of skin for your widget.
Feature Details:
1. Add 4 favourite contacts to homescreen
2. Option to choose either CALL, SMS or both action for ONE Touch event.
3. Option to choose your own preference of skin for the widget. (Random features also included)
4. Now you can make a phone call with 'speaker on' by just clicking on your contact.
As we still new here, we cannot include any screenshot and download link in this forum. Sorry.
You can download it by searching for "Contactz" in the market.
If you like it, please support us by giving your high rate in Google Market, recommending to your friends and forums.
On the other hand, we are looking forward to receiving your feedback and comment,we will keep working and make improvement from current version.
Please reply to this thread if there is any issue. We really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

Hi All,
Just as an update, we had just release a new version which have features as below:
1. Option to choose "Call with Speaker On".
2. Support contact with multiple phone numbers.
3. New features to crop contact photo to prevent unwanted image scaling.
Please email us if you have any issue
Help us to rate it if you like it. Thanks

I haven't tried it but it sounds like a great widget! Thanks! I'll be sure to keep my eye on this one just in case I need it.

Pretty good.
Works well on my HTC. Pretty useful when driving.
Keep it up!

Hi All,
February 3rd, is known as Spring Festival or Chinese New Year for the Chinese. In order to celebrate it, we release four very special and unique skins for Contactz.
Hope you all like it.
Help us to rate it if you like it.
Thanks
p/s: Valentine skin is coming very soon.

Android Market says my phone isn't compatible with this app. I'm on Samsung Galaxy 5 (i5500).

MrFrem82 said:
Android Market says my phone isn't compatible with this app. I'm on Samsung Galaxy 5 (i5500).
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with my HTC Desire rom MIUI 1.28 doesn't work

NICE!
works well with my rooted g2 with stock rom : )

I can't even find it in the Market.
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No go on HTC Desire with Oxygen RC7
Couldn't get it to work on my HTC Desire with Oxygen RC7 and LauncherPro Plus.
The widget seems to work OK but when I click "Done" there's no widget added to my home screen.

Only thing I would say is that when choosing the skin I wanted it clear so I chose no skin, but there's still a border around the widget. Also there's no option to change the colour of the contactz part to bring the options up, pretty hard to see black font on a black background. Another option you could release is an option to delete their names and just have the contacts pictures.
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Nice app even nothings new. I dont like the skins. Some more minimal wil be appreciated.
The icon are to much big so this cause problems when I resize the widget.
1,93Mb are really to much for a simple widget.
I think that with small image contact space and nice interface it can be better.
For now I use Sense again.

Nice, useful!
Market:
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.igm.android.contacts

MrFrem82 said:
Android Market says my phone isn't compatible with this app. I'm on Samsung Galaxy 5 (i5500).
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Hi MrFrem82,
Thanks for the feedback. Your i5500 is running on Eclair 2.1 right?
Our widget was set to support SDK 1.5 and above, so basically it should apple to support for your phone.
Thanks

kroogar said:
Couldn't get it to work on my HTC Desire with Oxygen RC7 and LauncherPro Plus.
The widget seems to work OK but when I click "Done" there's no widget added to my home screen.
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Hi kroogar,
This widget require the whole screen, so if there is not enough empty space on the screen, the widget will fail to be added.
Hope this will help
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Only thing I would say is that when choosing the skin I wanted it clear so I chose no skin, but there's still a border around the widget. Also there's no option to change the colour of the contactz part to bring the options up, pretty hard to see black font on a black background. Another option you could release is an option to delete their names and just have the contacts pictures.
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Hi SxcKieranGrr,
Thanks for the feedback. We will look into this new options.

Love this widget... thank you so much. Especially love the animation.
I'd like to make a request for consideration.... For those contacts with multiple numbers can a box like the "Call & SMS Option" with those numbers be displayed for selection? Up to 3 numbers would be great if screen estate permits.
Thanks again for an awesome widget.

Been looking for a widget like this!
Awesome widget! Works great on my Dell streak. I've been looking for a contacts widget like this with the single tap execute along with the eye candy. So far the "no frame" and "default frame" are my fav. My least fav frame is the "iphone". lol, it looks ok.
Suggestions:
-Create the option for a single contact w/frame as a 2x2 widget.
-More frame options to choose from. Maybe some other popular phone frames besides the iphone.
Thanks again.

Would like to try but it's hidden from my SGS Vibrant in the actual Market app. When I attempt install from the web based market, it says that my device is incompatible. Oh well.

Couldn't find it on android market. From web market was unable to download. using wildfire cm7. is it possible to upload the apk?
thank you guys. Nice app and love to try.

Hi All,
First of all, thanks for all the support and feedback.
We will work harder to made the application better and move to the next level.
As for now, we want to share with you all about our new released "HoneyComb" series of skin. We have Angry-HoneyComb and 2 others skins.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.igm.android.contacts
Hope you all like it.
Help us to rate it if you like it.
Thanks

[APP][WLP][4.1+] YoWindow Weather

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

par128 said:
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

masterinc said:
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

MidnightDevil said:
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.

nek46 said:
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.

flippy12 said:
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

par128 said:
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?

flippy12 said:
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?

[WIDGET][FREE][4.4+]Fibonacci Clock Widget

Just finished my first released Android App. It is a Widget version of the Fibonacci Clock, found on Kickstarter.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.thebillington.laxe
I've also built a web app that does the same thing, using Javascript:
http://www.fibonacciclock.co.uk
Any feedback is very much appreciated as I'm not particularly great with material design. Also if anyone has any tips on how I can market a free app, that'd be most helpful.
Cheers,
thebillington

This post saved me from reinventing the widget! I've got the Android wear watch face!
thebillington said:
Just finished my first released Android App. It is a Widget version of the Fibonacci Clock, found on Kickstarter.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.thebillington.laxe
I've also built a web app that does the same thing, using Javascript:
http://www.fibonacciclock.co.uk
Any feedback is very much appreciated as I'm not particularly great with material design. Also if anyone has any tips on how I can market a free app, that'd be most helpful.
Cheers,
thebillington
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Hi thebillington,
I’ve brought the Fibonacci Clock to Android wear! Check out the Fibonacci Clock/Fibonacci Watch face. When I was about to create the widget thankfully, I came across this post. Else I'd have unnecessarily created one!!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.padfoot.android.wear.fibwatch
Any feed back is greatly appreciated. Be it, design or customisation or anything! Thanks!

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Hi thebillington,
I’ve brought the Fibonacci Clock to Android wear! Check out the Fibonacci Clock/Fibonacci Watch face. When I was about to create the widget thankfully, I came across this post. Else I'd have unnecessarily created one!!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.padfoot.android.wear.fibwatch
Any feed back is greatly appreciated. Be it, design or customisation or anything! Thanks!
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That's awesome. Strange, we brought them out on the same day!
Unfortunately I don't have a wearable so I can't check it out, but the app looks really good

very interesting app.. thx..
just a minor finding..
the vertical spacing among the "squares" are a bit too broad (might be due to my apex launcher)..
the spacing in the play store screenshots looks much better..
can anything be done on this?
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one more thing..
the time displayed is using the round-to-the-nearest-5-minute-mark algorithm..
that means a display of 11:00 is in the range of 10:57:30-11:02:29 (just guessing on the seconds part..)
this is a bit non-intuitive to calculate..
could it be changed so that a display of 11:00 actually means 11:00:00-11:04:59, i.e., round-down-to-the-nearest-5-minute-mark approach?
anyway its just my opinion, and im not sure if there is a publicly recognised definition to display the time in fibonacci sequence..

iamelton said:
very interesting app.. thx..
just a minor finding..
the vertical spacing among the "squares" are a bit too broad (might be due to my apex launcher)..
the spacing in the play store screenshots looks much better..
can anything be done on this?
[edit]
one more thing..
the time displayed is using the round-to-the-nearest-5-minute-mark algorithm..
that means a display of 11:00 is in the range of 10:57:30-11:02:29 (just guessing on the seconds part..)
this is a bit non-intuitive to calculate..
could it be changed so that a display of 11:00 actually means 11:00:00-11:04:59, i.e., round-down-to-the-nearest-5-minute-mark approach?
anyway its just my opinion, and im not sure if there is a publicly recognised definition to display the time in fibonacci sequence..
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Thanks for the feedback! I am trying my best with material design, but I have noticed that the clock does look slightly different on different devices. Because of the way I've done my XML layouts, I have no idea how to fix this, but I've been racking my brain. Hopefully in future the widget will look more uniform on all devices.
As for the rounding, I hadn't even thought of an alternative being used. Guess I just assumed 2:30 either side would do the trick. I will definitely include a 'round-up, round-down' option in a further update. Thanks for the suggestion!

Fun app !!!
For me, squares are refreshed at HH:M3:12 and HH:M8:12

BreckZeBoulay said:
Fun app !!!
For me, squares are refreshed at HH:M3:12 and HH:M8:12
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The app is set to refresh every minute. I need to streamline my code so that it will refresh every 5 minutes exactly. However I'm still unsure of the differences of using the AlarmManager. I'm currently using the AlarmManager.RTC, which as far as I'm aware prevents the app from waking up the processor, meaning the app will wait to update rather than wait the phone from sleep.

thebillington said:
That's awesome. Strange, we brought them out on the same day!
Unfortunately I don't have a wearable so I can't check it out, but the app looks really good
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Thanks. I appreciate the feedback! Too much of a coincidence for us to put up the app on the same day!