I've been playing around in the sdk for a while now and I'm not so good at programing or anything, but I did manage to make a few clock widgets that I would consider very nice looking (I'm somewhat decent at photoshop).
Now, I know how make an apk with the widget, and I'm pretty sure I know how to put multiple widgets in a single apk (although I haven't tried yet)
I have noticed that some apps that have more than one widget (like google voice, or twitter) will say "(2 widgets)" underneath the name and allow me to choose which one I want after click the name.
How would I implement this in my own app?
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I want to create a pack of clocks (4 clocks). on the widget menu it'll be called "clock pack" (I haven't thought of the name yet) and when you click on that it'll give you a choice of which clock you want, each clock with a unique name and possible a unique icon; would it be possible to give each a unique icon?
thank you in advance
Did you ever get an answer to this? I have been attempting to include several clock faces with my clock widget also but can not come up with any workable solutions to allow the user to select the clock face.
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Ive just released a widget pack ( search for miromind - widgetpack ) to the market which contains:
An application dock widget (4x1) which can have as many shortcuts as you like and can be browsed directly from the homescreen.
Clicking on the widget will give you an easy manager which allows you to add applications and all shortcuts like contacts, bookmarks etc and arrange them how you like.
And it contains a clock designer widget (1x1/2x2) which allows you to easily create your own personal new clocks by selecting the graphics for the clock dial and hands.
Just bought this. This is something I was def looking for. I like it so far. Have 2 running on main screen. Nice.
Sounds useful. When XDANDROID works a bit better on my Diamond, I'll consider buying.
So where is the download link than i can try it
can't find it in the market
OK, where to start. I've been searching forums and the internet in general trying to find a way to mix and match Fancy widget & Beautiful Widgets to get the desired effect I'm looking for.
I've been trying endlessly to find a way to get Fancy widget to open up Beautiful Widgets Forecast when I touch the weather icon and there seems to be no easy way to do this (if it can be done at all).
Now, I must say I have tried Fancy Widget, Beautiful Widgets and Weather & Toggle Widget and so far I love the look of Fancy Widget, love the look of Beautiful Widgets Forecast and didn't like Weather & Toggle Widget at all.
I have noticed that the Forecast app/add-on does appear in my Recent apps when I long press Home; so I was wondering if anyone would be willing to help me figure out a way to get Fancy Widget to see it as an app when choosing an app to open when touching the weather icon.
Also, Beautiful Widgets by default brings up the Alarms section of the Clock app but I can only get Fancy Widget to bring up the Clock app instead of directly bringing up the Alarms section. If anyone knows a way to achieve this also, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Hi everyone,
I know there's a fair few of these popping up, but I'd like to announce the publication of my text based clock widget.
I used to use Tajm, but wanted to tidy up the layout a little and add some customisation options. I figured there would be demand for this in the big world as well, so here it is.
It has a 2x1, 2x2 and 4x1 widget sizes. It currently only uses the default system font, but I intend to integrate the font packs that are abundant on the market.
I've also got it written to neatly support additional languages, which I will be adding as and when I can find a handy volunteer translator for a language!
I'm attaching the apk for you to try out. It will lock down configuration without a purchase, but you can still see how the default layout looks and works. If you like it and want more options and future versions then hopefully you'll buy it. It only costs 50p/79c
I can't post outside links yet, but if you search for 'Text Clock' somewhere like AppBrain I'm sure it'll come up. It also has a purchase link inside the attached apk.
Enjoy!
Zulaxia said:
Hi everyone,
I know there's a fair few of these popping up, but I'd like to announce the publication of my text based clock widget.
I used to use Tajm, but wanted to tidy up the layout a little and add some customisation options. I figured there would be demand for this in the big world as well, so here it is.
It has a 2x1, 2x2 and 4x1 widget sizes. It currently only uses the default system font, but I intend to integrate the font packs that are abundant on the market.
I've also got it written to neatly support additional languages, which I will be adding as and when I can find a handy volunteer translator for a language!
I'm attaching the apk for you to try out. It will lock down configuration without a purchase, but you can still see how the default layout looks and works. If you like it and want more options and future versions then hopefully you'll buy it. It only costs 50p/79c
I can't post outside links yet, but if you search for 'Text Clock' somewhere like AppBrain I'm sure it'll come up. It also has a purchase link inside the attached apk.
Enjoy!
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i just buy your clock widget there is no languages yet. thats not good find another for free with langues:-( :-( want my money back!!!!!
Hopefully, I'm posting in the right section. If not, please forgive me and move to the right one.
I have Fancy Widget Pro on my phone. The problem is, I want to use 2 widgets from FWPro: the first is a 1x4 clock & weather which I use on the main screen of my Droid Incredible. I have a custom clock skin I made for it and a weather skin i downloaded from the FW market. The second is where I run into a problem - I have 5 Day forecast 1x4 widget on my WidgetLocker Lockscreen. The thing is I DON'T want a background on that one and I also want to create a separate custom weather skin for that one.
In FW Pro, you can set the background to show or not and that setting is applied to every widget. Likewise, you pick one weather skin and that is applied to the weather in every widget.
I'm thinking the only way to actually have separate ones would be to decompile the .apk file for FW Pro and leave all the functionality the same but change any reference to Fancy Widget Pro to a new name (Fancy Widget Extended maybe) to in essence create a new 2nd App that could be installed on my phone. I not quite savvy enough to actually do that, but I'm wondering if I'm correct in that thinking or if someone else has a better idea.
Thanks in advanced for any help!
Eric
Hi,
On Sony's Xperia devices there is a dedicated app that provides the lockscreen clock/alarm widget (com.sonymobile.keyguard.clock). This clock has different layouts to select from but it cannot be hidden or disabled (just like the original Android clock can't).
I would like to hide/remove it so I can show my KLWP widgets on the lockscreen as well as on the homescreen.
I have tried removing the app and then the clock defaults back to the regular Android clock so that does not work.
Would it be possible to edit this package and add an additional (empy) clock layout or, a bit more dirty, just remove the graphical elements of one of the presets so it is still active but not visible in practice?
I tried extracting with APKTool and editing some files but my knowledge isnt good enough to do this so it would be great if someone could help with this.
I see the banner message saying "no noobs" so this topic might not be in the right place? Can someone move it? Sorry
Is there like a request part on the forum where you can request something like this? I would actually be happy to pay for an app that does this because it annoys me very much.