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[App idea] A proper wallpaper changer app

Hi everyone,
For the last couple of weeks I have been trying find a wallpaper changer app that will change the wallpaper with a given time interval from a selected folder with the wallpapers inside.
I have tried a couple of apps but none of them are effective enough. By this I mean they just change the wallpaper. They don't mimmic sliding default wallpaper movement.
If there was an app that did this I would love it if it had the option of a fade effect when it changes the wallpapers.
I'd pay for a donate version of it if it had a library of wallpaper packs to download from like minimal, nature, scenery etc.
Can this be done as a live wallpaper or does it need to be an app?
Or do you know an application that already does it?
Thanks
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Have you tried "WALLME" from NumericMe, heres the link for the lite ver.
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.numericme.wallme&feature=search_result
For $ 1.40, the Full Edition has
● No ads
● More than 3 pictures sources allowed
● Grayscale display feature unlocked (save battery for devices with OLED screens)
● Double-tap and Notification-tap actions can be changed
● More special effect: reverse scrolling

Sound likes a live wallpaper which is similar to a slideshow. Users can change photos on their own

what about wiki wallpapers?

The one I use is called "wallswitch" .
Works fine and it slides the image like default so I guess that's what you look for.
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I used wallswitch for a while it works fairly well.
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WallSwitch was just what I was looking for. Thank you.

You might also like my WebLiveWallpaper (xda thread here) (possibly only the "Your Pictures" Picture gallery quick selection). Or if not maybe you can tell me what features to add to please your needs!

[Widgets] [2.1+] Android Pro Widgets [v1.3.8 - 1/17/2014]

By roee88 & danny88
A set of powerful and extremely useful home screen widgets!
✓ Designed for both smart phones and tablets
✓ All widgets contain advanced features hard to be found on other products. Try it!
✓ Scrolling is supported on all devices and all launchers
■ Available widgets:
☆ Agenda & Calendar
☆ People
☆ Bookmarks
☆ Messaging
☆ Facebook
☆ Twitter
☆ Timeline (Facebook+ Twitter) - Licensed version only
☆ Google Reader available here
■ More tools:
☆ Quick Event - Quick Calendar event insertion tool w/ native language processing and speech recognition capabilities.
☆ SayWhat - little 4x1 widget to update Facebook/Twitter quickly from the home screen
■ Notes:
▪ Automatic scrolling is enabled on Android 3.x and on most alternative launchers (e.g. ADW Launcher, Launcher Pro, Go Launcher Ex). When scrolling is not supported by your launcher (e.g. Zeam launcher, HTC Sense, Samsung Touchwiz) you must first click the widget's footer and the widget will become scrollable until it looses focus.
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Looks great... I would definitely buy if there was a Whatsapp widget though. Can this be added at some point?

The app is available for free on the android market please try
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rdr.widgets.core&feature=more_from_developer
We just opened a UserVoice page for Features Requests.
For any feature request just go to http://apw.uservoice.com and add your suggestion.
You can also vote for other people's ideas.

Updated
v1.1.1 - fixed some reported bugs.
f_padia said:
Looks great... I would definitely buy if there was a Whatsapp widget though. Can this be added at some point?
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WhatsApp does not allow external applications to access messages. We have sent them an email about it.

Excellent work!
Just installed, gave it a whirl for 5 minutes and paid for licence.
Tip top.
Thanks
EDIT: Stock email and RSS news widgets would be great for a future release.

nice app. looks like LP Widgets IMO. or should I say better? 5*

Android Pro Widgets 1.1.2 released
Android Pro Widgets 1.1.2 released
Changelog:
- Enable widgets sizes should now work correctly.
- [Facebook] Option to open items using 'Facebook For Android' (FriendCaster/TweetCaster devs contacted and hopefully we will support it later).
- [Messaging] Added widget size of 3x3 (disabled by default).
- [Calendar] Added widget size of 3x3 (disabled by default).
- More bug fixes...
- And also some new themes Online and White Blobs
Enjoy,
roee88 & danny88

Just love the change log! waiting for more...
more themes will also be nice to have... =)

I found this app by chance and love it. I can't stop talking about how nice it is.
I'd LOVE an orange theme, similar to BigDX's Orange Serenity for LP. Or something close.
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Unbelievable. Goodbye launcherpro, FINALLY
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Very very good.
I would just ask for losing the text shadows. Or adding an option.
And if cause, a news rss widget.
Have already uninstalled Colorize
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Great app you guys got here. I was previously using bestapp sms. Quickly uninstalled that one and opted for your app.
Thank you...
from the Speedy EVO Engine...

Hope dev will update the app with my suggestion.

nice app,
but hv those widgets in lp alreay

but hv those widgets in lp alreay
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People judge by the default theme instead of the actual functionality.
Just check the 'Use Thin Frame' and suddenly it won't look like LP.
Lets take the people widget as an example
APW shows Facebook pictures of contacts.
APW allows you to change click action to direct dial or direct message (even for each contact separately).
APW can sort contacts by frequently called first (In the paid version it even allows custom order and creation of custom groups).
APW can show contacts also in a list view.
It is true that LP widgets have their advantages like month flipping in the calendar and generally they behave much better on Launcher Pro
(Note: Launcher pro only support an old scrollable widgets API so any scrollable widget except for LP's own is not as slick as it could be).
We have absolutely nothing against Launcher Pro, it is a great launcher !
You are all free to try both

'use thin frame' should be enabled by default.
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Do you plan to implement notifications with read, unread, mark all as read etc. options like colorize widgets have?
Edit: colorize widgets doesn't have this option. I remeber seing it somewhere but I can't remeber where.
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Updated to 1.1.3
Android Pro Widgets 1.1.3 released
Changelog:
[Bookmarks] Support for MIUI/Miren browsers
[Facebook] Option to show wall posts also on the news feed tab
[Facebook] Optional FriendCaster integration
[Calendar] Timelines colors more readable
[Calendar] Fixes for devices w/ low resolution
[Calendar] Option to show birthdays and anniversaries
[Agenda] Fixed date format for some devices
[Agenda] Fixed past events visible bug. Also added an option for adjustable 'keep past event' time (license required).
[People] Option to clone a custom group
Thin Frame is now the default on launchers w/ scroll support
Some more widget sizes for smart phones
More options for update intervals
Added Italian translation
Also, we will soon release a stand-alone scrollable widget for the Official Google Reader application.

Is a google plus widget planned?
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[WIDGET] [2.1+] APW Google Reader [v1.1.3 - 09/25/2011]]

Are you already using the Google Reader android application? Want a better widget than the simple news ticker that comes with it?
Try APW Google Reader!
Unlike other news widgets this one should be considered as an extension to Google Inc's Google Reader application rather than a stand-alone widget.
■ You must install Google Reader before installing this widget.
■ The scroll button is only necessary on launchers that don't support scrollable widgets.
■ Refresh button only makes sure the widget is synced with the google reader application. Make sure 'Synchronize feeds' is enabled on your google reader's settings.
■ Themes only available with APW License Key (same key for all APW widgets).
■ For more widgets try Android Pro Widgets.
Download
* You can also search "apw" on the android market to find this application.

Thanks for this!
I see from the Market page that if you pay you get access to APE widgets. I have already purchased APW, if I want to have the full version of APW Google Reader, do I have to purchase it? Or is there an alternative?
Thanks.
EDIT: Ignore the above... I take it that APW Google Reader is covered within the APW License key.
EDIT 2: Any chance in a future update to support feed images? Liking it very much so far!

EDIT 2: Any chance in a future update to support feed images? Liking it very much so far!
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Yes, we are researching all possible enhancements that Google Reader allows.
So far we discovered that we can add an option to change the sort order to what google calls "magic". Also we can get the full html of every feed item so it would be possible to extract the image url from there, fetch it from web, cache it to SD, and finally display it in the widget. It will take time as we are full of work right now

Excellent, I love APW. Keep up the great work!!
I left APW Google's first Market comment

Updated to 1.1.0
Updated to 1.1.0
1. Option to change sort order
2. Support thumbnails
3. Adjustable font size
4. New themes engine
Updated to 1.1.1
1. Fixed compatibility with older themes

Updated to 1.1.2
Updated to 1.1.2
I've updated APW Google Reader to match the recent changes in Android Pro Widgets.
If anyone here is using it please let me know if you experience any issues and if setting the preferences to match those of the Google Reader app helps.

No images in certain feeds of mine, except from engadget where it works.
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Can you PM me some feed URLs for testing?

what is the different between ''newest'' and ''magic'' in the sort order?

Read about magic here:
http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?answer=164681

Updated to 1.1.3
Updated to 1.1.3
- Option to show text shadow
- Performance improvements for launchers with no scrollable widgets support
- Support extracting thumbnails from more feeds
- Time-stamp is now Google Reader received date (can be changed in settings).

Hi guys,
Are there plans in place for these awesome widgets when Google Reader goes down?
Feedly or Taptu maybe?

Bump. Desperate.
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☰ 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?

Anything to report?

Any issues or problems i should know about?

[APP][WIDGET][2.1+] Weather ACE - weather app with stats

Weather ACE (Accurate, Customizable, Easy-to-use)​Customizable weather forecasts based on forecast statistics
Uploaded with ImageShack.us​He all! We have lot of weather applications available for android, but most of them - use only one weather source and have very limited customization options.
Who it's bad to rely on the only one weather source for information? - be course you don't see alternatives. Weather forecasts usually made by using of weather forecasts models. Different weather forecast sources (Weather Underground, Accuweather, National Weather Service and etc) use different forecasts models that produce sometimes completely different forecasts. The main idea of the application - provides best (by forecast statistics) available data in easy-to-use way and allows to customize application look.
Application features:
- Accurate weather forecasting by using generated forecast statistics (it's compare current weather with that was predicted)
- Contains multiple views for weather information, daily, hourly and extended weather information. Possibility to compare weather information from different weather data sources in a view.
- Home screen widgets. Common widget and stack widget (stack widget required android 3.0+).
- Supports millions of locations.
- Lot of options for customization (most of colors, fonts, icon themes, units of measure etc). All three feels-like types of temperatures supported.
- Lot of usefull and precize informations about weather, sun and moon. I used best available algoritms for all the information.
- Phone and tablet optimized (Android 2.1+ required).
- Weather ACE contains internal help, I working on homepage now.
- developed in the way to use less battery as possible.
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It's mostly just a start. My current planing:
- weather graphs.
- support for plugins (weather icons, pictures, fonts, may be more). Possible even custom views (the application already have part of code for it).
- 3+ more new views.
- weather maps with offline support.
The application contains ads, but I see lot of special applications here that can help you with ads, so it's you decision - will you see the ads or not. :fingers-crossed: You can also just buy a version without of ads and helps me improve the application more.
Application link on Google play market
Application seems stable for me. I have no crashes at all.
Feel free to share your ideas about the application and new features that you need here or via mail.

The application now #14 in "Top New Free" on Google Play for category "Weather" (was #15 several hours ago, so it grows). I see no ANRs/crashes in my google play developer console, so seems completely stable. Have lot of new installs today.
Please check, I hope it will suit your needs too. I would be grateful for any feedback (here or via mail) for to make the application better.

Menu is janky on my GPE One and I don't have the option to buy the ad free version. Is it available for all countries?
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MLonon said:
Menu is janky on my GPE One
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It's great to have feedback, thank you!
I have no such issue on 6 devices that I checked (2 tablets and 4 phones) and emulator that I used for testing.
PS. The problem fixed a week ago or so.
MLonon said:
I don't have the option to buy the ad free version. Is it available for all countries?
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About of ad free version: google don't not allow my country to put paid apps on google play market. So I posted it on amazon, currently it still in review there. I will inform you via forum mail (and in the thread) if you are interested.

Google Play updated to version 1.1.0.
There are lot of new interesting features from first version:
- added weather charts with lot of customization options. 2 types of charts, 3 styles, colors and more.
- added one more weather source - Yahoo. So, it's easy now to compare up to 4 weather sources.
- added new weather icon theme.
- 4x1 widget now can be resized, supported 1x1, 2x1, 4x1, 5x1. But it's not all - 1x1 widget have 3 types (current, today, tomorrow) and can be changed on fly. The widget can be set as transparent and it possible to change all colors of the widget.
- lot of small improvements and fixes.
Current planing: will add one more widget - 2x2, transparent, with lot of customization options - layout, fonts, colors (all independent from other widget settings).

New version 1.1.3. Added 2x2 transparent widget with lot of customization options (color, icon sets, fonts, content types) and a widget constructor that you can use for to make your our widget from available content blocks.
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New version 1.2.2
Changes list from 1.1.3:
- Fully customizable (with widget constructor) lock screen widget with clock.
- Six new content blocks for 2x2 transparent customizable widget and lock screen widget
- Added first localization - Russian and Ukrainian, more localizations soon (Spanish, French, Italy, Polish and more).
- Greatly improved data update speed.
- Bugfixes and improvemens.

Version 1.2.4
- Added possibility to add your our custom background to the application. You also can use your home screeen wallpaper (for example - live wallpaper) as application background.

1.2.5
- Completely changed application view on android 4.0+.
- bugfixes and localization corrections.
Example of live wallpaper as application background for Weather ACE :
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Version 1.2.6 (02.11.2013)
· Support for android 4.4
· Added Spanish localization. Please mail me if you find bugs in it. French localization expects this Monday.
· Fixed view of widget content blocks for 2x2 transparent widget and lock screen widget: all blocks resized, realigned and have correct font size.
· Fixed precipitaion indicators on the widget content blocks.
· Fixed all bugs that was reported by users.

Version 1.3.0
List of changes from version 1.2.6:
· Localizations to French, Arabic, Simplified Chinese
· Now it possible to use your own set of weather icons. Check application webpage for documentation and prepared example of HOLO weather icons. Also now it possible to write application plugins with weather icon sets. Becourse of the feature, application now required permission that allows to read from SD card.
· Becourse of several issues with OpenWeatherMap source last 2 monthes, the application will avoid using OpenWeatherMap source for current and today\'s weather.
· 2x2 stack widget now resizable and got 2 new sizes. Also corrected font sizes on the widget.
· Added visible switch on Charts (icon on top-left of daily chart) that allows to change chart values between temperature/barometer/humidity/precipitation.
· Added transparency to Charts with Application default chart style then you use home screen wallpaper as application background.
· Added 1x1 and 2x1 widgets for android 4.0 and less (android 4.1+ can resize 4x1 widget for the have 1x1 and 2x1 widgets).\n
· Widgets now show date as day of week.
· Several bugfixes.

In it's latest vrrsion it is outstanding. My very favorite weather app. Using its plug-in for Tasker is icing on the cake

I love this app, will there be more updates or no more support for this great app? I really like thats its so customizeable and i can change design to match my homescreen, even colors and weather icons. I find that radar and maps are missing areas sometimes, sometimes theres a lot of gray rectangles without any data. I want to display hourly weather from app with Tasker plugin in KWGT, how to do it and it is possible? How to create apk with weather icons?

Ya....this is the best Weather App out there. Love it. Nothing else like it around.

I've read everywhere that this weather app is supposed one of the best ones but it seems that many people (myself included) are experiencing a problem that prevents it to start (at least on Nougat). The app immediately crashes miserably as soon as is started.
The play store review section is now full of reviews where people is complaining because of that.
Do you guys know if the developer is aware of it, or did it abandon the development?