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Creating Widgets

Hi
I'm learning android development and i want to make a widget and i saw that the api for that is not open - i saw in these forums thought that people want to do that - can any of you point me to a good reference or something i can use to do that?
Thanks,
E.

Until the API for widgets is released there is n.o practical way of developing widgets for Android.

Your Custom Scenes and Suggestions

Hi!
I've finally gotten my Hero fully working on Sprint, so now I can finally get full usage out of this awesome phone!
I've been trying out different ROMs and so far I'm sticking between Modaco and Fresh's 1.5 ROMs. (I tried a few of the 2.1 builds and they're awesome but I need my camera to work!)
Anyhow, I'm new to Android and Widgets and Scenes and all this, and I'm wondering what my fellow Heroes are doing to get the most out of their phones.
How do you guys organize your 7 pages? Does anyone have their Scene customized perfectly for their use? I'd love to see some screenshots of what you consider to be your perfect and most efficient setups. I'm looking for ideas on the best ways to place my shortcuts and widgets, and if anyone can recommend some aftermarket widgets, I'd love to hear about it!

Link to some info about Android Apps
Just thought I'd post a link to android forums, looks like a great place to get started looking for tested and interesting apps for Android!
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/

[Q] Android theme and app Development

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.

[REQ] KitKat Contacts APK - with DroidBug

Hi Guys,
Wondered if anyone could quickly knock up a KitKat Contacts APK for the note, but based on Gingerbread style. So where a contact doesnt have a photo associated with it, under the normal one you'd get an outline (like out of Cluedo)....
Wondered if anyone could either add these, or make their own one??
Cheers, Lister

Hi guys,
Nearly 400x views, and yet no one seems interested to replace the current stock (Zippy) based contact, with a more (Droid) based one...??
http://images.fanpop.com/images/ima...7s-uk-childrens-television-158497_308_425.jpg lol
Just thought it might take us back to our roots, bit more Android themed...
Cheers, Lister

Android Animations Discussion

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.