Hi there, this is my first app/widget. Basically a simple battery widget for the android home screen which displays your phones battery life inside the green android logo. It would be great to here your thoughts on it Thanks for reading!
Link: http://tinyurl.com/7odtdvn
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Nice widget.
Somehow the market download takes forever (slow cloud perhaps)
One suggestion: A different charging icon for fast(AC)/slow(USB) charging.
Its hard to find this on the market unless you add a few words from "west coast labs" to the search.
i don't see the wiget after installing your app?
Thanks for your replys guys!
britoso: Yes i agree with the different symbols for charging types. The download speed im unsure about, Its only 129Kb.
ts3li0t: Yeah i noticed this was a problem with some devices. A restart of the device has fixed it for the two cases i have seen with friends devices. Hopefully that will work for you. (It doesn't have an app launcher so its only in the list of widgets if thats why you cant see it). I have also seen it with other developers widgets too.. odd
Thanks for taking the time guys, really appreciate it!
The battery percentage text gets half cut off when my tablet (touchpad, cm9) is in landscape mode. Maybe the widget should be a few pixels taller.
1.0.1
Small Update: Level now drops when it's less than 11% and again at less than 6%, with crossed eyes! Orange level at less than 31%.
And thanks for pointing that out britoso. I have only just seen your comment, but will fix it for the next update. What launcher are you using if I may ask so that i could test it out to make sure its running well? Thanks!
late post sry, it must have been a problem with the launcher (nova/tribuchet), now that widgets can be re-sized its a non-issue.
1.0.2
Another small update (Not worthy of a new thread)
v1.0.2, Lightning bolt appears when plugged into DC, still a USB symbol when connected to a computer or tablet USB port. (Tiny extra; Green background when adding widget to home screen.)
Cheers!
Version 2.0
Android Battery Widget 2.0 is now available. It's had a complete redesign, hope you like it!
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Hi!
So I've had this idea knocking around in my head for a while, and finally banged it together over the last week or so. Basically the speed of the snake reflects the current CPU load of the phone, and it's length reflects RAM usage.
There's a bit of a settings screen, so you can change the colour of the snake, as well as what the speed and length represent (the third option is number of processes running), and change how often it polls the system for new values.
I'm planning to release this version (more or less) on the Market for free, along with a paid version with more advanced settings (surprise!).
If you have time, please install it, try it out, and let me know what you think. I'd love to hear about:
Crashes (along with logcat output if possible )
General battery usage (should be pretty good, but, y'know)
Any other problems you might run across
How your day is going
How smoothly it runs on your phone
Suggestions of more system settings to display
And more ways to display them
What you had for breakfast
Any other settings you'd like to see!
Thanks very much for taking the time to read, I hope you like the wallpaper!
Mark
I ll try it now and would surely report back.
Excellent How about the color of the snake (green yellow red) as the battery stats? Or at least optional
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Excellent How about the color of the snake (green yellow red) as the battery stats? Or at least optional
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+1 that would be useful
General feedback:
* Simple, cool and geeky design (that's a good thing)
* Lag free
* Maybe add an option for the size of the snake (i.e how big the blocks are). I quite like the current size, but others might like different sizes.
I've added some screenshots for you hope they help! I had no idea how to make the images smaller... sorry :<
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Hi,
so far it works perfect (Nexus S, stock 4.0.3). No lags, no crashes and basically now battery usage.
I would like to e. g. keep my regular wallpaper but to have a small "window" and have the snake in this window. Combined with the colour depending on the battery stats this would be a great feature...
Is there any possibility of some working screenshots? I recommend some image hoster.
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I would like to present the new “Neon Clock” created by CodeDaemons team (which consists of two graphic designers and one programmer). It is one of the first widgets created by us, but we did our best to ensure that our application would work efficiently. It is completely free version of Neon Clock, however there's always a possibility that payable version will be available in the future.
Beautiful Neon Clock in Google Play
And our profile link.
We are looking forward to read Your opinions!
Cheers!
oh... these look nice!! thanks for sharing. I don't normally use a clock widget, but I might use this...
Fyi this has ads in the notification bar
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Fyi this has ads in the notification bar
Sent from my SGH-T989 with Cyanogenmod 9 Nightly Power.
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doesnt spam those ads that often
And if you want you can install adblock for the phone
I would use if the clocks were transparent, any plans to do this?
Been using for some hours now, it just seems to be draining my battery, any solutions?
I really like the look of it.
First come smiles. Then come lies. Last is gunfire.
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I would use if the clocks were transparent, any plans to do this?
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Sadly - no plans about that
@tranceph0rmer
please note that those apps will display false battery usage as the service for clock is only ran once a minute and is disabled for the rest of time
werg said:
Sadly - no plans about that
@tranceph0rmer
please note that those apps will display false battery usage as the service for clock is only ran once a minute and is disabled for the rest of time
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I second the transparency, I think that would look nice. About the "false" battery usage though, why would it be reported that way if it wasn't actually using that much battery? Is that just because (some) battery monitoring apps really don't take into account times when widgets/apps/services aren't running? That just seems odd to me, however I am not extremely experienced in the way these things work.
It's not a battery monitoring app,
It's the stock htc power usage displayer.
Hmmmmm......
First come smiles. Then come lies. Last is gunfire.
hmmmm we'll look into that
+ maybe if few more ppl show their interest in transparency option we will think about that
I've created a new 3d Live wallpaper featuring The Hobbit theme. It's completely 3d and, imho, it's pretty cool. You can check it here:
http://goo.gl/XKvtI
Any rating left in the Google Playstore is hugely appreciated!!
Nice wallpaper. Thx! :victory:
Thanks!
My inspiration image was this:
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Made it free... didn't get any downloads anyway
looks really good. The app is having the same issues as my live wallpapers. I don't get the scrolling effect. All that I can see is: See attachment. You can see that I have my screen scrolled all the way to the left but the wallpaper remains centered.
This is a common issue for me also on Jellybean. It seems samsung and others have opted out of scrolling wallpapers. So those people that download it will only get to see the first ( center ) screen.
My live wallpapers are plagued by this to at least yours looks decent when on Jellybean it gets centered. Some of mine are way off to the left or right.
I had to add this notice to some of mine to stop people from buying and canceling all day lol.
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looks really good. The app is having the same issues as my live wallpapers. I don't get the scrolling effect. All that I can see is: See attachment. You can see that I have my screen scrolled all the way to the left but the wallpaper remains centered.
This is a common issue for me also on Jellybean. It seems samsung and others have opted out of scrolling wallpapers. So those people that download it will only get to see the first ( center ) screen.
My live wallpapers are plagued by this to at least yours looks decent when on Jellybean it gets centered. Some of mine are way off to the left or right.
I had to add this notice to some of mine to stop people from buying and canceling all day lol.
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Thanks for the feedback (especially the one on google play )!
It's true that samsung disabled the wallpaper scrolling on their phones (why the frack would they choose to disable one of the best features of the android UI is beyond me) and that may confuse the user a lot.
I present to you Gizmooi: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timvdalen.gizmooi
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Origin story:
When I tried out Aviate I really liked the picture at the start but I wanted it to change once in a while.
So I decided to make a widget that does just that.
Show a nice, 'inspirational' photo and change it every day or so.
It is fully scale-able so it is compatible with launchers such as SF launcher or Aviate which allocate a certain number of pixels for it, but it also works great with launchers like Apex or Nova which let you resize widgets.
I'm not good at photography, so I'm not the one picking out the photo's.
Currently, the photo's come from this community: http://www.flickr.com/groups/[email protected]
Obviously, only ones with licenses that allow it are used.
If you'd like, you can check out the GPLv2 source on GitHub: https://github.com/timvdalen/gizmooi
Any feedback is appreciated.
awesome widget but I don't get the white borders on my widget?
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awesome widget but I don't get the white borders on my widget?
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Thanks, glad you like it.
The border only appears on the lock screen variant since some launchers already provide a border.
I'll see if I can detect borders and add them if needed.
I just released a new version of Gizmooi to the Play Store, with a few important goodies:
[1.3] All CC licenses are now supported, not just CC BY-2.0! This means there are 6x as much photo's available now and we're a step closer to a new photo each day.
[1.2.1] Fixed a bug that caused old attribution data to show up.
[1.2] Incremental back-off if your phone's memory is full. This is currently implemented in quite a hacky way, but more phones should be supported now.
If you still experience a slow-down, please let me know here: https://github.com/timvdalen/gizmooi/issues/2
The most important thing to include in the report is whether or not the default photo (the one of the lake) is eventually replaced.
If it isn't, the photo download isn't working for you for some reason.
Once again, feedback is welcome!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timvdalen.gizmooi
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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