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[APP][Market BETA] Tabr

Tabr, is a new approach to the multi-application widget, one widget to rule them all!
A Tabr widget has multiple "modules" which link to other applications. Currently supported applications are calendar (including all the task integration you get with Agenda Widget for Android), contacts, Twitter and Facebook.
The tabs across the top of the widget allow you to switch between modules quickly rather than sliding between 5 homescreen's.
Modules can be created by anybody and a simple plugin to an existing content provider can be mocked up in about an hour. If you are interested in including a tabr module in your app contact me!
Features:
Scrolling
Gridview, listview or stackview for any module (some modules only look good in certain view types)
Override skin settings with custom colors
Notifier shows a number of changed rows on background tabs (if supported by the module in question)
3rd party module support
3rd party skin support
Market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.everybodyallthetime.android.tabr&feature=order_history
Currently available modules:
Boomarks (built in to main app)
Contacts (built in to main app)
Social (Twitter/Facebook) - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.everybodyallthetime.android.scrolling.socialplugin
Agenda (based on Agenda Widget) - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.everybodyallthetime.android.scrolling.agendaplugin
More info and downloads: https://sites.google.com/site/tabrforandroid/
Feel free to leave some comments.
Follow @roflharrison for version updates/bug fixes
I'm interested in talking to skinners or developers who want to make modules for their apps!

Do you also dev the android agenda widget?
*ok so you are, why the need for a new app? I use agenda widget and it looks great.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

dtm_stretch said:
Do you also dec the android agenda widget ?
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That's me!
dtm_stretch said:
*ok so you are, why the need for a new app? I use agenda widget and it looks great.
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This isn't an Agenda application, however it has an Agenda module because that was an easy starting point (all the code being written already).
I will update the OP with a better description to avoid further confusion, please try it and see for yourself!
EDIT: update OP with description of the app

Sounds like a good idea! Will try it when I get home. Now, I need to look for more things to fill up the launcher with...

Lawliet said:
Sounds like a good idea! Will try it when I get home. Now, I need to look for more things to fill up the launcher with...
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Interested to hear your thoughts!

very cool, i'll check it out

Working very well, definitely has potential!
Would be nice if there is an option for font size, perhaps. I find the font size for the agenda view slightly big. But I guess that's probably part of the skin =)
EDIT: .nomedia files for the Twitter cache will be nice =X

Font sizes will be overridable, haven't made it to that stage of dev yet
Will fix the twitter image thing, thanks for the tip.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

Updated the twitter module:
reply/retweet/share in the tweet dialog
temporarily made the avatar cache load into one folder to reduce the gallery silliness (delete the old avatar albums after install).
Regarding the avatar cache, it seems my download method (the DownloadManager in Android SDK) is scanning all downloads into the media library and it shouldn't be. I am investigating if this is fixable and worst case will implement my own download method before release.

Do you have plans to add Facebook as a Tab, too?

Yep, Facebook is on the todo list once I iron out the bugs in the Twitter module.

Lawliet said:
Working very well, definitely has potential!
Would be nice if there is an option for font size, perhaps. I find the font size for the agenda view slightly big. But I guess that's probably part of the skin =)
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I've updated the main application and the Agenda plugin, if you get both of the new versions you should be good to go!

Updated main application, you can now specify custom icons/labels for module instances

Am I allowed to reply to my own posts this often?
Updated Tabr beta:
Icon!
Lazy loads contacts and twitter
I think I have fixed skin loading, please try the example template skin and let me know if it crashes
Customize label/icon of tabs
If you try the skin, please make sure there is an application in the background/alternate launcher so you can uninstall the skin (for some reason Honeycomb launcher doesn't handle crashes caused by widgets very nicely).

Big update, you will probably have to re-install but its worth it...
Who wanted Facebook support? See OP for details

Great update!
Do I have to install the main application and all the other module separately or are they included in the main package?
Is it possible to click on links?

Have to install separately, at the moment it is annoying, but once it is on the market and they can be updated/added/remove individually it will be a boon!
>Is it possible to click on links
In Facebook module? Not yet because it is in very early stages. I will work on this for you if thats what you want

Looks great so far! Can't seem to get any facebook posts to appear using the social module. Have added an account, with the login page saying "success" but on the widget itself, it just says loading your tweets (Also it appears to be losing the account details if you press the back button after adding an account)
Any ideas on how much this will cost when it hits the marketplace? Love the Android agenda widget but Tabr offers so much more

Oh, I need to change that loading screen so it says "loading..." rather than just loading tweets.
The first load takes a while because it is caching your friends avatars as well as grabbing posts... It should reload itself once its finished updating... If it keeps failing please attach/send me a log? (roflharrison at gmail)
>Also it appears to be losing the account details if you press the back button after adding an account
In the settings screen or the browser?
Price has not been determined at this stage, I will make it competitive though.

In the settings screen. Appears to be intermittant though, can't always reproduce (not that helpful, sorry)
Looking forward to this one, think you're on to something special here

Meta Widget - create widgets from any website content

META WIDGET
Meta is a unique app that can turn virtually any online content into dynamic, interactive widgets.
Simply browse to a website, pick a column of text, link or image and enjoy this information right on your home screen!
Why is this cool you ask? Because almost anything can be parsed out of a website - images, blogrolls, RSS feeds or entire windows.
Any widget created through Meta can be customized and automatically updated, or updated on user interaction.
Features
★ Create widgets from almost any website element
★ Parse graphs and images
★ Extract statistics and information from authorized sites
★ Configure widgets (background, alignment, etc.)
★ Automatic updates
★ User defined click actions
★ Lots of other cool stuff
Status
The app is currently quite stable, but we still prefer to call it a beta. So please, do write to us with suggestions or bug reports!
Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.metawidget
The free app has everything but automatic updates. Please buy the Key - that would help us a lot
Screens

Guys has anyone had issues with the keyboard not popping up in the internal browser?

Any issues with this first build of the meta widget?

Its a cool idea, not exactly what i thought it was. You can have it make a widget of buttons on a web page. I run my little sisters Etsy store, and there is no good etsy app. I used the app to go to the shop page and basically what it does is make a widget with the top buttons that i can click and will open up my browser. I was hoping it would show if i had messages, activity, etc...
I really like the idea, yet i dont know what I will use it for.

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Its a cool idea, not exactly what i thought it was. You can have it make a widget of buttons on a web page. I run my little sisters Etsy store, and there is no good etsy app. I used the app to go to the shop page and basically what it does is make a widget with the top buttons that i can click and will open up my browser. I was hoping it would show if i had messages, activity, etc...
I really like the idea, yet i dont know what I will use it for.
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You selected the wrong element. It shows you ANY element (static or dynamic) in a webpage. If you log into the store, go to the private messaging area and click the "unread messages" number, it will show you how many you have.
For example - i use it to extract the impressions graphs from my advertising analytics service.

Can you have it poll multiple things, such as activities and conversations? Or would that have to be 2 widgets?

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Can you have it poll multiple things, such as activities and conversations? Or would that have to be 2 widgets?
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You can poll multiple things separately. We are working on a way to do this better in our upcoming widgets! project. Here though you can only select one element at a time.
Atm the best way to line things up is to use a launcher that can overlap widgets.
Btw the widgets! project should be in beta quite soon as well

Awesome. Keep up the good work.

1.0.2.1
Fixed keyboard issue present on some phones
Fixed image cache optimization (much faster now)
Fixed a rendering issue that occurs if data connection is lost
Fixed a few device-specific issues from user feedback

Id appreciate some feedback on this latest release!

1.0.2.2
Fixed alignment issue on text and lists
Fixed sort order issue in list view
Added divider visibility toggle
Optimized custom browser rendering
Minor UI changes to increase compatibility

Any issues to report?

Any issues to report? Suggestions perhaps? Screens of what you have done?

Anything to report?

I just saw the app....looks like not too many testers reporting! Ill download and let ya know what I think....I would also post this with all attached in the physical apps forum. Maybe more response!
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

1.0.2.8
Fixed bug in list creation
Fixed issue with prompt action

Anything to report?

Interesting. Downloaded, will try it out.

iElvis said:
Interesting. Downloaded, will try it out.
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Let me know how it goes.

ftgg99 said:
Let me know how it goes.
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I tried to make one from my Klout page, but it didn't work. What am I doing wrong? I couldn't seem to select any of the elements.

☰ Meta Widget ☰ Create widgets from any website ☰ SCROLLABLE NEWS IMAGES ANYTHING ☰

☰ Meta Widget ☰ Create widgets from any website ☰ SCROLLABLE NEWS IMAGES ANYTHING ☰
META WIDGET
Meta is a unique app that can turn virtually any online content into dynamic, interactive widgets.
Simply browse to a website, pick a column of text, link or image and enjoy this information right on your home screen!
Why is this cool you ask? Because almost anything can be parsed out of a website - images, blogrolls, RSS feeds or entire windows.
Any widget created through Meta can be customized and automatically updated, or updated on user interaction.
Features
★ Create widgets from almost any website element
★ Parse graphs and images
★ Extract statistics and information from authorized sites
★ Configure widgets (background, alignment, etc.)
★ Automatic updates
★ User defined click actions
★ Lots of other cool stuff
Status
The app is currently quite stable, but we still prefer to call it a beta. So please, do write to us with suggestions or bug reports!
Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.metawidget
The free app has everything but automatic updates. Please buy the Key - that would help us a lot
Screens

Anything to report?

Guys is anyone having trouble with text and background colors?

So far so good.. Been having a problem of not updating the widget properly with a previous version.. But it's resolved now..
I use it for a local weather website, however, when I'm setting it up, I can choose the image (with difficulty) when I'm on desktop or android mode within the app . But nothing shows up.. As if it's transparent.
But if I choose iphone mode. It works..
Dunno if u got my point.. I'll attach pictures
The website is http://meteo.search.ch/geneve
Thx for trying to fix it.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium

Looks like there are some dodgy tags around the images. Try using the buttons to avoid capturing the wrong element.
Im sorry but html is very difficult to represent visually - the selector is as good as it will ever get.

1.0.2.10
Reworked parser logic for compatibility
Reworked padding system in some circumstances
Fixed compatibility issues with Nova and others
Fixed title text size caching issue
Fixed a number of device specific problems from user logs

works well thank you...

thanks a lot..

The best thanks is a nice review on the Play Store - good ratings help me spend more time on improving the app

Hi,
I have recently installed Meta Widget. I thought i could use it to grab the market headline from www.ft.com, i have managed to grab one article, but i want to be able to scroll all the market headlines.
Is this possible?
Many thanks in advance,
Mike

Yes, it should be possible. Remember, you need an element that has a lot of similar elements if you want to make a list. So for example, in ft markets it should be the title of the ones 1/3 down the page that say EQUITIES CURRENCIES etc.

Anything to report?

Everything OK with the recent JB updates?

[Tasker Plugin, Dev] Material Design Tasker Plugin receives massive update to version

Hello everyone! I just sent an update to Material Design Plugin which is probably the biggest update I have ever made for one of my apps before! There is a lot of things I have done so let's just get right into it!
New Action! Content activity! With Content Activity you can do some amazing things! With it you can give a title, text, and an image. Then you have optional attributes like moving it, swipe to delete, click to select, etc. This is perfect for media consumption and things like that. You could create your own Google+ for example!
There is now a search option for List Activity! This is an extremely powerful tool as it adds a whole new level of options for the list activity. Now you can take tasker data you want to be searched, and put it in a list activity just to search through!
You can now set image files via a path! This one is great for people who were having issues with the local image picker or anything like that. Anywhere you can put the icon name, just put the path and it will work like a dream. (Image showing will be made far more efficient in later releases)
I completely remastered the navigation drawer! Now everything is far more efficient! I also added support for a real size drawer header! Now, paired with the background image, this can be like an actual navigation drawer header! And don't worry if you prefer the way it was before, an update is coming to allow a customizable size.
Alright! I know that it was a rough time switching over to the new theme and to the new drawables, but I finally got the last bit of crashes kinked out for y'all, should be smooth sailing now!
Google also released a fix for a lot of the issues in the support package, like switches text not changing color, etc, so that should be smooth sailing now as well.
I also synced a lot of the apps actions all together so now there is a lot more efficiency and reduced apk size, and there is more to come!
I fixed the tutorial button for kitkat users! I know this was a big complaint so I am happy to report that I finally fixed that one.
Alright guys! That is about it, there are probably some things I forgot to mention but there you go! Hope you enjoy the update and please let me know about any issues, suggestions, requests etc. that you might have!
If you want to check out more you should look at my website! http://www.nicknackdevelopment.com/home.html
You should also check out tasker week where this app was featured! http://www.xda-developers.com/tasker-week-theming-and-design-using-scripts-and-scenes/

[APP] [1.6+] Emerald Launcher [Beta]

Emerald Launcher is a simple home screen for Android phones. It is based on TinyLaunch code with lots of improvements and is in beta stage. It provides some features to make it easy and nice to use. You can resize layout as you wish, apply icon packs, easily access apps via search or sort them by categories.
Download from Google Play
Source code on GitHub
Any help is appreciated. Please feel free to post suggestions or report found bugs here. Thanks.

Surprising not to see comments here. Just found it on F-Droid and think this is a fantastic launcher implementation. No unnecessary permissions, no ads, no statistics or analytics, good customization, fast.
Thank you so much for developing this. Still playing with it and personalizing. ( Came from using KISS launcher for quite a while. )
　

I was wondering if it would be possible to change a single application's icon ( or all of them but without installing an icon pack ) and found a workaround...
PNG files generated in Emerald's cache folder at /data/data etc can be replaced, one by one or all of them. No need for icon packs. In case this is useful to anybody.
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Hello,
i also would like to thank the developer for this nice launcher. I tried it and found it great, but...
i'd like to have the ability to search contacts and settings and not only apps as Emerald does. Is it possible to add this feature as well as widget support?

surferjoeit said:
Hello,
i also would like to thank the developer for this nice launcher. I tried it and found it great, but...
i'd like to have the ability to search contacts and settings and not only apps as Emerald does. Is it possible to add this feature as well as widget support?
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Not to sound rude, but the lack of those features is a huge plus for me. Plenty of other launchers are loaded with functions such as those. Try KISS or OpenLauncher for instance, just to mention two out of dozens.
　

Hello.
Thank you everyone for the support and sorry for the late reply. @Ultramanoid, I came from KISS myself. It is fine, but lacks some features such as folders and grid layout, that's why I've forked TinyLaunch and started to modify it.
surferjoeit said:
i'd like to have the ability to search contacts and settings and not only apps as Emerald does. Is it possible to add this feature as well as widget support?
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I'm going to add support for shortcuts, so it'll be possible to search through contacts if you add them on the homescreen. About settings... I think that settings search is unnecessary, because it won't speed up toggling much. Widgets are most likely not to be implemented. You can use EcoHome as a separate screen for widgets, it's very lightweight.

I'm looking for help with testing alpha versions of Emerald. If you want to help, please e-mail me at [email protected] and I'll send you the latest apk with instructions. I have to mention that test apks won't include features for Nougat and Oreo, so if you use these OS versions, please be ready to some bugs and make a backup of preferences. Thanks.

Might want to updated the link so it's not the description (should be this): Download From Play Store

Very nice launcher. I'm using on Nougat on a very special kind of phone (F25). I'm having a problem with an icon pack though. It just contains 2 icons but doesn't get applied in any way.

Okay but.....
Just gave it a quick try and here are my results
1 - adding to the dock, on my phone the home/back/recents button gets in the way. Seems to fix it if I turn the phone landscape and then back. But then it comes back as soon as I touch the menu on the top left - see screen shot.
2 - no shortcuts or 1x1 widgets - not sure how basic you want the launcher to be.
3 - on my phone I prefer to be able to move the things. like your search bar, etc. My phone is an HTC M8, anything that requires 2 hands to do (or reaching to the top of the screen) is annoying.
4 - since you only have 1 screen, maybe making gesters do something - like making swiping on any part of the screen switch categories (instead of the top of the screen).
5- Maybe allow changing the size of the text for the apps on the screen.
6 - If you set to just text, the dock has all little green android
might be more, but not ready for prime time, good luck.
-brad

Hello, @bradley_e_smith. Thank you for the review.
1. This issue was discovered already, but I can't reproduce it, because there is no phone with on-screen buttons to test it.
2. Shortcuts are planned and widgets are not.
3. I've updated the app recently. Now it's possible to move the main bar and apps to the bottom.
4. Yes, I'll probably add gestures soon.
5. The text size can be changed through appearance settings.
6. It's a known issue. I don't know what could be the best option to show. There are three possible options:
- always keep dock icons in cache;
- show text labels in dock.
Droidphilev said:
Very nice launcher. I'm using on Nougat on a very special kind of phone (F25). I'm having a problem with an icon pack though. It just contains 2 icons but doesn't get applied in any way.
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Hello. Please could you answer some questions to help? Does this icon pack work with other launchers? Is it listed in Icon Pack option? Thanks.

HenriDellal said:
Hello, @bradley_e_smith. Thank you for the review.
1. This issue was discovered already, but I can't reproduce it, because there is no phone with on-screen buttons to test it.
2. Shortcuts are planned and widgets are not.
3. I've updated the app recently. Now it's possible to move the main bar and apps to the bottom.
4. Yes, I'll probably add gestures soon.
5. The text size can be changed through appearance settings.
6. It's a known issue. I don't know what could be the best option to show. There are three possible options:
- always keep dock icons in cache;
- show text labels in dock.
Hello. Please could you answer some questions to help? Does this icon pack work with other launchers? Is it listed in Icon Pack option? Thanks.
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Hello,
This icon pack is working with Lawnchair launcher at least. I have not tried on other launchers. It's listed in Emerald Launcher settings.