I stumbled across this app/widget in the Market and was amazed that such a powerful app had only gotten about 5000 downloads in half a year (evil circle - no downloads, no one sees it, no one downloads).
What the app is is a note app that has text, drawing and audio notes and a matching widget. What makes this special is the amount of customization options you have with it, especially the ability to scale it to full tablet screens without that messing anything up.
What I did was to dedicate an entire homescreen to the widget, set the background to fully transparent, activate the quick save button and set the main app to draw on homescreen which means that it uses an image of the homescreen as the background when you're in the main app. The result is that the home screen page doesn't show ANY indication of a widget being there, but when you click it, the main app launches which with the home screen background looks like some controls simply magically appeared on the home screen. I can then do notes and click and hold the save button, which brings me back to the homescreen and the widget gets updated with the note.
A picture is worth a thousand words so the below screenshots shows what I'm talking about. The first 1/3 of the screenshot shows the widget with some notes on it. The second 1/3 shows the main app which with the way mine is set up looks just like if some buttons appeared on the home screen. The last 1/3 is just to show one of the 4 tabs of settings to show how customizable this is.
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The way I have it set up is just an example, you don't need to go fullscreen or transparent background or anything like that. I just thought it would be the best way to show it off as I've gone through literally dozens of note widgets on the 7.0 Plus with the same results; small widgets, not scalable, scalable but pixelated, looks like it's made in paint, etc. This is the first one I've found that actually works well on a tablet.
EDIT: forgot a link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mattm.whiteboardpro&hl=en
hahaha wow. this is legit!
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I've been waiting for this one check it out
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I like the concept. I like that you are able to quickly get an overview of messages, calendar, calls and you can adjust was you like it. It would be better if it had facebook, twitter intergration as part of all the other info panels also.
The only issue here I see is that the whole notion of android is the widgets...which I like. I'll keep it on for awhile to test it out. Maybe it will grow on me.
It's basically windows mobile homescreen.
I agree with archboy, great concept, but still missing some customization features. The ability to move an item from the top half to the bottom half is needed. This would be great if it could also be used as a fullscreen widget, so that I could still use the rest of my screens.
I wish this was a lock screen.
IMO, this information oriented approach instead of the action/application oriented approach is much better in terms of productivity.
The only drawback of this application? I cannot access to some widgets/actions and I do really want to be able to do things like enable wireless, 3g, change brightness... without the pain of going through the setup menus.
A good solution to this problem would be a light weight home screen app which could be launched from slide screen and load the the 4 or 5 widgets I need. I've tried aHomeMini but it forcecloses, any suggestions?
@iVisionX01: yeah, having it as a lock screen is also great but, again, I won't need the full featured home app.
iVisionX01 said:
I wish this was a lock screen.
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2nd that
Tried it for a couple of hours, but missing customizability and getting settings too far out of reach made me uninstall quickly.
I wish it was a widget!
Try QuickDesk or PowerStrip with this, working great for me, very pleasing to the eye..
wow i cant believe i missed this home screen
should be perfect with QuickDesk and PowerStrip
i dont get it??? Whats it suppose to do??
It's a shame FroYo won't let you change default launcher programatically any more (you have to do it through the settings). I would love to have had Tasker set this is default when I was at work, then LauncherPro the rest of the time
I've created a simple flashlight app, it's small (1.1 MB) and (for now) it only has one button (ON/OFF). It works with devices with no led (lights with the screen) and it has simple layout - button with transculent background, you can minimize the app by touching the background. I've noticed that most of the flashlight apps have fullscreen activities with many buttons, functions and animations. All I want for app like this is one, simple ON/OFF button so I made my own. I added the doge theme, because it's fun and popular, I don't want a boring flashlight, like the most on the market
I made this app mainly as a joke, I don't think I plan to make money out of it, it's also my first app in the market (not to count the ones I made in my work). I'm planning to do some update after my christmas break - widget, better looking button, maybe notification bar button, but in the end I want this app to stay simple. So I wanted to share it with XDA - what do you think, is there a need for ANOTHER FLASHLIGHT?
Google play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wow.suchpackage.dogeflashlight
[QRCODE]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wow.suchpackage.dogeflashlight[/QRCODE]
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Guys, at least tell me is it working on your devices and/or should I change/add something (but remember I want it to remain small and simple)
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Guys, at least tell me is it working on your devices and/or should I change/add something (but remember I want it to remain small and simple)
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could you add a widget (lock screen widget plz)
Yup
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could you add a widget (lock screen widget plz)
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Yup, I was planning to add ON/OFF button to lock screen, I never saw that in other flashlights I had, and I think it's pretty obvious idea to have one. And of course widget is coming.
I've tried many different browsers with greyscale, inverting, and night modes. But this browser is the first I've ever seen do a clear transparent version before. I've checked all my websites and they all look amazing.
If you like blacked out and clear apps I suggest you check it out.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.UCMobile.intl
Here is how I make mine look blacked out.
1: get a completely black image, picture, or screenshot.
2: in the browsers theme section set the image you want as the wallpaper.
3: set the background to transparent
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Brilliant find, really. Thank you for the tip!
Thanks for the tip.
I've done limited testing so far (did not even figure out how to set trans bg yet...), but while first looking into this on the market, I noticed that there was a mini UC Browser as well. I ended up spending more time on it than their full one.
A couple observations on Mini:
- good UI, but I do have to press my menu soft button twice every time in order to get to the opened tabs icon...;
-less options but also less "clogware" (or just stuff I don't need really);
- night mode a bit "lightish" in shade, but very good since it doesn't affect (invert) pics as Lightning (a similar) browser would;
- use fewer processes/services and about 5 times less RAM than the full version (and app itself is 10x smaller);
- could find a setting to easily switch between desktop/mobile and it seems like page zooming is not really possible... But layout seems always pretty good;
- nice touches like: top/bottom quick btns, bw saving/compression, 3 file downloads at once, auto-reconnect/resume dl (although this is marketing talk cause some site do not allow pause or resume...);
- more to discover..
And hopefully, we'll be able to theme bgs and text colors a little... I'll look into this tomorrow; can't wait... hehe!
Thx again, cheers!
Does UC support flash by now ? Did one of you try UC sync available for chrome desktop to sync tabs .... ?
That's great I love this one
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Thanks! This is wonderful!
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Title explains it. Is there a way to remap the phone icon on the stock TW Launcher so it will launch the Google dialer app instead of the stock phone app?
Doubtful, but if ya wanna try and a really great full screen launcher give Total Launcher a try, I'm 100% Certain you could remake the left and right shortcut keys in it with the home page indicator too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.launcher2&hl=en
I've been using Total Launcher for around 2 or 3 months now and haven't looked back at the TW Launcher
My home screens soft key row
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I'm using MRU (Most recently used widget) with 5 rows and 7 coulmns
As you can see, you could set up that bottom row on every single home screen page
You wouldn't need a app launcher icon as one of their home screen pages is the app drawer, so you could get creative and put a sms icon on the right side or whatever even leave it blank
You can even change the icon to any image you like
Now you can see a near complete edge launcher tw replica, I done the phone text shortcut as its more aesthetically pleasing to the eye with the stuff that has the soft menu on the right side of the screen.
If I can figure out a way to add any application as a shortcut I made out of a camera shortcut it has a text messages shortcut as well.
Camera
1st way
2nd way
I changed it up a lil
I think it's safe to say with Total Launcher making Note Edge Launcher TW Clone Homescreen the options are quite endless.
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Changed it up a lil with Elixir 2
One more change added my own customized app drawer so I could get both left right shortchuts and a page indicator
I was holding off on updating, after getting the Android 11 notification a few days ago in the UK, as I couldn't see much user feedback on One Hyper upgraded to Android 11. But I updated it today and while it seems to be working OK (with seemingly no loss in general performance), I did immediately notice a bug/feature on wallpapers.
It doesn't matter which app you use to apply a wallpaper, the system seems to take over and crop the image. When you pull down the notifications bar it zooms back out to the original 1:1 wallpaper.
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Forgive the quality of the above gif, I didn't want to overload the thread with a massive image. But you get the idea.
I did a Google search and it seems to be a common issue, at least on some Android 11 devices, I saw some archived reddit threads from 2020. It's a shame but thankfully there is a workaround (if a little clunky). Apparently live wallpapers escape this weird bug/feature, so with an app like KLWP you can turn a wallpaper (like some of the 1080x2340 formatted wallpapers I made) into a live wallpaper. Again it works but for such a simple thing, it's a shame you have to jump through hoops that weren't there in Android 10.
Eh, why do they need to do these things. I'm already really annoyed that the lockscreen overlays a color tone over the image, dampening all cool vibrant colors and contrast. When i now choose a lockscreen wallpaper i have to overdrive the colors and contrast before applying it to counter the tone.
is this a bug? I thought it was some new effect of the system, if you repair it well, when you are using the Motorola launcher and make the gesture to open the app drawer, the same thing happens.
Whether it's simply an annoying new feature or a bug, either way it would be nice if it was an option.
Again I'm able to use the KLWP app to get around it, but its a lot of extra hoops for such a simple feature (and not a particularly intuitive app to use).