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hi ppl.
i want to know how to remove a coloured bar that displays on the homescren by default. i am attaching a screenshot of my homescreen for your reference. the bar displays where 'Hutch' is written i.e. where teh operator name shows.
secondly, is there any way to make the top and bottom bars transparent so that any image covers the entire screen, but retains the icons n text (eg. edge icon, contacts field, start menu etc?)
anyone ?
You need to modify that theme. Upload it and I'll do it. It's located under ApplicationData\Home\xxx.scheme.xml
thanks pal. i am attaching the 'simple home' xml and a screenshot of same.
i would like the following things to be edited:
1. no top n bottom colour bars (should be transparent to take colour of any picture i put as wall paper)
2. no colour bar where it says 'Hutch' (operator) - same effect as point one.
3. Would it be possible to reduce the font sizes too ?
thank you for your precious time and patience.
Here you go.
Oh, it is not possible to remove the bottom.
@frauhottelmann
yeehaw !!! thanks a ton pal. the home screen looks real cool.
don't want to overstay my welcome but is there anyway to keep changing the lower bar colour ?
theres a software called base hue express. that changes the bottom bar colour. but i dont think it can make it transparent.
In home screen settings you can choose Color schemes (only basic colors) otherwise you would have to modify the theme again!
I uploaded my digital clock widget, mClock. I plan on adding more styles and/or options. Let me know what you think, what you would like to see as far as options go and whatever else.
I've attached the QR code and screenshots.
For the fonts in the screenshot I just grabbed some off the web and put them on the sdcard.
Fonts: 1979, Acens, Colwell, Orbitron-Medium, and the built in fonts.
Report bugs: http://bitbucket.org/knoxcoder/mclock/issues
Xml help http://www.maroonedsoftware.com
Templates (skins) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9856429
There is also a donate version, mClock.donate
Looks great so far!
I have some suggestions though,
First of all, I really want a real 24 hour clock instead of the 12 hour clock available.
4x2 widget would be awesome.
Perhaps custom date formatting, for example, I cannot currently do "Sunday, November 7". The default android formatting options would be nice i.e "EEEE, EEE, HHHH, MMMM, d and so on."
Perhaps click to open application..
Maybe shadow options?
Larger font size than 100px? I currently use 128px which perfectly fits my screen from side to side.
Separating different lines would be awesome, for example, I might want month and day number on one row and weekday on another.
24 hr clock: I have the code almost ready for that
4x2 widget: Easy to add
Date format: Sunday, November 7 is already supported. You can turn off the year portion on any of the date formats and change the separator to ,(Space).
Click to open app: I've been thinking of a good way to handle this. I also need to allow clicking to open the options page. I've thought about dividing the clickable area to allow different launch options. If you have a good idea I'm all ears.
Shadow options: The blur effect overwrites the shadow. I haven't figured out a way to get both to work. I may settle for toggling between shadow or blur. But I did have the shadow working on a test build so it's doable.
Larger fonts: Easy to change
Different lines: That's where the different styles/formats come into play. Those take a bit more work but I do plan on providing that sort of thing.
Update to 1.3. Includes 24 hr clock, 4x2 widget and increased font max size
Exellent app mate! Congratulations! I m using it whole evening! So good, so far! I have no further wishes about this app! Loving it!
About the click to open app, why not a application in the launcher for the settings?
24 hour clock option should disable AM/PM automatically?
Still not seeing 4x2 widget?
I like shadow because it can act as both solid blur, shadow and the color is configurable.
Blur seems cut off at top and bottom at big font sizes?
I know it's a hassle for almost no difference but perhaps render it as text instead of a bitmap?
I know I sound whiny but this app has so great potential and is already better than the rest of the clocks, simply awesome work. Love it.
New update fixes the 4x2 issue. I forgot to add it to the manifest file... Also I disable the am/pm if 24 hour mode is on.
As for the shadow, I'll work on it next. Hopefully should have it ready tomorrow night. I have code already that allows you to select the shadow color, x & y offset and the shadow size. It should just be a matter of getting it all in shape and tested.
For the app launch. Do you mean put a item in the configure screen that will launch the app?
The blur getting cut off is a side effect of the clipping, I have an idea of how to solve that but I'm going to delay the fix for now.
I don't mind the suggestions, I like to know what can be improved.
Seems the update service crashes(or simply doesn't start) a lot on 1.3.1 with the 4x2 size?
Text won't fill the 4x2 widget correctly, fonts seem limited to a too small size(only 24 hour clock, won't fit width)?
Another suggestion of mine, 24 hour clocks usually display a leading zero when the hour is a single digit?
What I meant with app launch was to have a normal app (the ones that show up in your app drawer ^^) for configuration and launch custom apps with the widget.
Right now I have no clue why 4x2 doesn't work. It works on the emu but not on the device. The other sizes seem fine though. I'll look into it tomorrow.
Very cool looking digital clock widget! Great design.
My new favorite clock app !
What I really like about it is the way you can change colors.. gradient is a nice option.
Nice work mate !
Upload the APK please
Could you please attach the APK file here for the comfort of downloading?
It would be a great help.
Thanks
Arindam
Added the apk file to the original post.
New release now has shadows, more layout options, another clock format and some bug fixes. However I wasn't able to figure out the 4x2 widget issue so it's disabled for now.
looking awesome.
Good luck on the 4x2 widget.
Figured out the 4x2 issue. Still trying to get a good design on handling the app launch feature. One problem is you can have multiple widgets so if I disable the tap to config then you'll have to delete and re-add to change options. One idea is to have a popup that you either choose the app or the config, not as great as just tap to launch.
Awesome...The best clock widget till date...works great on my xperia x10.
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The clock seems kinda small, seems there is a lot of space to spare. See screenshot, bottom is the size I would want(Self-made clock widget), top is current size.
Awesome update man, 1.5 is simply awesome.
There's something "wrong" with the 1.5 version (market update)..
I've downloaded and installed your attached 1.4.1 file in first post just to be sure my eyes were ok..
When I set clock colours (white 100% and white 50%), the gradient is not as smooth as it used to be on 1.4.1
For the size not being as large as you want, try bumping up the font size and turning off clipping. Set the date's vertical alignment to bottom and the clock's to top. That should give you what you're looking for. And if the font size is maxed let me know and I'll increase it.
For the gradient issue. I know exactly what why it happens. I could go into tech details but basically to get the 4x2 working I had to reduce the rgba depth. I'll go back and increase it for all the smaller sizes.
Yeah, font size was maxed out. Perhaps make that setting a text input, shouldn't have any limits and be precise enough then.
Hey knoxcoder, I LOVE your widget, but as Poodlemastah points out, there's this major drawback of not being able to launch our app of choice when tapping it. This is a must have for all clock widgets.
Most of us like to set our alarms by just tapping on the clock widget, and right now I find myself using TWO clock widgets because of this... yours because it's the best looking, and another one in the adjacent home screen just to launch the alarms app... lol.
Even if it means having to re-add the widget once you add this feature, I still think it will be worth it in the long term... it's just a must-have for most people.
As Poodlemastah has suggested, I think the behaviour most of us would expect is:
Both the "add -> widget" option from the home screen and the icon in the app drawer will take us to the config screen. There, we can set all the parameters as we want them (including which app to launch).
Now, as you've said, there can be multiple instances of the widget, so maybe the ideal setup would be being able to "save" different clock configs from the settings menu (without necessarily applying them to any instance), then choosing which one of them to apply at the moment we add the widget to a homescreen. That way, it wouldn't be such a hassle to re-add them everytime, because the config would be saved.
It would be a matter of making the user conscious of this change by just re-arranging the settings menu: when we open it, it shows the options "Create new clock...", "Edit existing clock...", etc. That way, they would realize each clock is saved independently, and they would be asked for a name first of all, so that they would actually remember what it was called when they want to load it up.
Example:
· I open mClock settings
· I'm presented with 3 options: "Add existing clock to home screen"; "Create new clock..."; "Edit/delete existing clocks...".
· I choose "Create new clock..."
· I'm asked for a name, I name it "My clock".
· I'm then presented with the clock settings screen, which I procceed to adjust to my liking.
· At the bottom, I see 2 buttons: "Save" and "Cancel". I click "Save".
· After that, I'm taken back to the settings screen.
· I now choose "Add existing clock to home screen".
· I'm presented with a list of the existing clocks already created.
· I choose "My clock".
· The clock is added to a home screen (the central one, I guess?), and I'm automatically taken there to see it.
Another way to add a clock would be to go to a home screen, choose the "add widget" option in the launcher, and choose "mClock", in which case I would be taken to the same settings menu as before. The only difference would be that the clock would get added to the same screen from which I called the "add widget" option.
I don't know if this would be such a big hassle to make, or if it's impossible at all, since I haven't done any Android development yet. I'm only talking from a usual programmer and UI designer point of view
Let me know what you think.
Ultimate Info Watch for Gear, Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo
I would like to introduce you my app, Ultimate Info Watch for Gear, Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo.
It is simply a watchface with lots of information as the name says. It provides access to lots of information from one screen without accessing other apps.
It consists of a watchface running on Gear and a service app running on the phone side.
The watchface displays both analog and digital clocks with following information:
Date/Time
Phone Battery
Watch Battery
Current Location
Current Temperature from Weather info
Current Weather Status
Wifi Status
Data Connection Status
It also has following additional features:
battery indicator (blue)
phone battery indicator (green)
when clicked on the battery indicator, both watch and phone battery level is shown on bottom for a short time
Wifi on/off switch
Data Connection on/off switch
3 Day Weather forecast popup when you click weather icon
1 Day Calendar events popup when you click the calendar icon
5 clickable areas on the watch screen:
calendar
weather
wifi on/off
data on/off
battery
The app has a transparent background so that you can use any background you select from Gear settings. Prefer light colored backgrounds to see texts easily.
Notes:
Calendar display function is designed as is with the following conditions:
- it displays the appointments/meetings in your visible calendars for next 48 hours.
- Only a max of 5 items is displayed, so if you have more than that in the next 48 hours only first 5 of them will be shown.
- Calendar display is temporary popup style. It dissapears after a short time. (according to the number of displayed items)
Weather forecast display function works with the same manner. It displays only for a short time only, then disappears.
After the restart of Gear, sometimes the app can not communicate with the phone service. This is a known bug. If this occurs, please change watchface to some other and then back to Ultimate Info Watch.
The app is designed to preserve battery. That's why it is only connecting to the phone with a period. If you can't get information from the phone when you start the app, please wait for 2 or 3 minutes.
The app is designed to work with tablet/phone with data connection. If used with a device without data connection, some features are not available.
The app is already available in the Samsung Apps store in Gear Manager for a while. You can reach it by searching its name.
There are free and paid versions of the app. The free version has some limitations:
Weather forecast is limited to 1 day (today)
Calendar information is limited to 1-2 upcoming events for the next few hours
Transparent background has name of the app over it
Screenshots:
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Please feel free to post bugs, problems and feature requests on this thread.
New version on the way
New version with following features at approval phase. It will be released in a few days.
If you like the idea of seeing notification count on your main watch screen (as in Gear S default watchface), you may like it.
Display current month when date is clicked
Show unread notifications count on main watchface when it is more than 0
Shortcut access to notifications app, when notification count is displayed by clicking on it
And after that , the next update will have:
If your phone locale is set to US or UK, the date display format will be month/day/year
color change for fonts (and analog watch hands) in a loop each time you click the center of the watch. (black-white-grey-red-green-blue-cyan-yellow-black)
the default font changed to the regular (plain) system font
if you click on center-bottom of the watchface, font face will change in a loop of 3 system fonts
Screenshots:
Ultimate Info Watch Fancy Watchface for Gear, Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo
There is also an additional watchface which works with my app. It supplieas same informations on a fancy transparent watchface. If you are also looking for design in addition to functionality, you can also add this watchface and have same features on a better looking watch screen.
After the approval phase of its new version it will supply these features:
Ultimate Info Watch supplies following information:
Date/Time
Phone Battery
Watch Battery
Current Location
Current Temperature from Weather info (right dial)
Current Weather Status
Wifi Status
Data Connection Status
Display current month
Number of unread notifications on phone
battery indicator (top dial, left needle)
phone battery indicator (top dial, right needle)
when clicked on the middle of clock, both watch and phone battery level is shown on bottom for a very short time
Wifi on/off switch
Data Connection on/off switch
3 Day Weather forecast popup when you click weather icon
1 Day Calendar events popup when you click the calendar icon
shortcut access to notifications
8 clickable areas on the watch screen:
1- calendar
2- weather
3- wifi on/off
4- data on/off
5- middle
6- bottom dial middle (passes to msec showing analog clock)
7- date -> current month display
8- notification count -> opens notifications app
Screenshots:
Hi,
Your app is very rich in features and quite useful watchface. But it needs work on the appearances, many users require professional (formal) watchfaces, i.e. less colorful and standard fonts.
reserved for future watchface additions.
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renegade said:
Hi,
Your app is very rich in features and quite useful watchface. But it needs work on the appearances, many users require professional (formal) watchfaces, i.e. less colorful and standard fonts.
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Thanks for your feedback.
If people need standard fonts, I can make a new watchface with standard font.
About being less colorful, my watchfaces are transparent. So if you need black or any tone of gray, you can use that background.
Hello,
could you please provide the apk from the free version?
I think this would be interessting for a lot of people that use the gear 2 with an non Samsung device.
Thank you.
Greetings
Seju said:
Hello,
could you please provide the apk from the free version?
I think this would be interessting for a lot of people that use the gear 2 with an non Samsung device.
Thank you.
Greetings
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sure; I am attaching it here. But the free version is really a crippled version and I did not develop new features (notifications etc.) on it.
Also, I am not sure how host-side communication works without Samsung Gear Manager. Because normally my gear app communicates with the phone side service through Samsung Accessory protocol.
mrmrmrmr said:
sure; I am attaching it here. But the free version is really a crippled version and I did not develop new features (notifications etc.) on it.
Also, I am not sure how host-side communication works without Samsung Gear Manager. Because normally my gear app communicates with the phone side service through Samsung Accessory protocol.
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You are correct, this won't work from phone install. Says not installed correctly from gear manager.
new features to Ultimate Info Watch on the way with 2 phases.
It will take some time because of Samsung approval process.
See post 2
new version of Ultimate Info Watch is available on store with following features:
1. Display current month when date is clicked
2. Show unread notifications count on main watchface when it is more than 0
3. Shortcut access to notifications app, when notification count is displayed by clicking on it
4. If your phone locale is set to US or UK, the date display format will be month/day/year
5. color change for fonts (and analog watch hands) in a loop each time you click the center of the watch. (black-white-grey-red-green-blue-cyan-yellow-black)
the default font changed to the regular (plain) system font
6. if you click on center-bottom of the watchface, font face will change in a loop of 3 system fonts
if you like the idea of seeing notification count on watchface (as in the Gear S default watchface) , you'll like this
mrmrmrmr said:
new version of Ultimate Info Watch is available on store with following features:
1. Display current month when date is clicked
2. Show unread notifications count on main watchface when it is more than 0
3. Shortcut access to notifications app, when notification count is displayed by clicking on it
4. If your phone locale is set to US or UK, the date display format will be month/day/year
5. color change for fonts (and analog watch hands) in a loop each time you click the center of the watch. (black-white-grey-red-green-blue-cyan-yellow-black)
the default font changed to the regular (plain) system font
6. if you click on center-bottom of the watchface, font face will change in a loop of 3 system fonts
if you like the idea of seeing notification count on watchface (as in the Gear S default watchface) , you'll like this
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Some suggestions:
1. Allow a short date format of just day date for those who want a cleaner presentation (IE: Thu 13).
I think I can remember what month and year it is without it cluttering up the watchface.
2. Any way to allow users to optionally remove and reposition elements around the face according to their preferences? I like the density of options and information, but some people might not need them all, so allowing people to remove some and move around the elements would be a good customizing capability. For example - sometimes I just want a resizable digital clock and no analog at all so I can clean up the face for the background to show better.
3. Would it be possible in the future to save certain profiles? Sometimes I want a cleaner watchface for certain days and on work days I want the full dashboard of info and toggles available at a glance. If I could preconfigure a couple and have a way to quick select them, that would be cool.
Anyway, good work and thanks for continuing to support our platform. I'm happy that there are still some devs working on this and haven't all abandoned this for Android Wear.
rEVOLVE said:
Some suggestions:
1. Allow a short date format of just day date for those who want a cleaner presentation (IE: Thu 13).
I think I can remember what month and year it is without it cluttering up the watchface.
2. Any way to allow users to optionally remove and reposition elements around the face according to their preferences? I like the density of options and information, but some people might not need them all, so allowing people to remove some and move around the elements would be a good customizing capability. For example - sometimes I just want a resizable digital clock and no analog at all so I can clean up the face for the background to show better.
3. Would it be possible in the future to save certain profiles? Sometimes I want a cleaner watchface for certain days and on work days I want the full dashboard of info and toggles available at a glance. If I could preconfigure a couple and have a way to quick select them, that would be cool.
Anyway, good work and thanks for continuing to support our platform. I'm happy that there are still some devs working on this and haven't all abandoned this for Android Wear.
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Yes, +1 :good:
new watchface addon is available on Gear app store.
Good clockface
Is it possible to get the wgt file for sideload?
mrmrmrmr said:
New version on the way
New version with following features at approval phase. It will be released in a few days.
If you like the idea of seeing notification count on your main watch screen (as in Gear S default watchface), you may like it.
Display current month when date is clicked
Show unread notifications count on main watchface when it is more than 0
Shortcut access to notifications app, when notification count is displayed by clicking on it
And after that , the next update will have:
If your phone locale is set to US or UK, the date display format will be month/day/year
color change for fonts (and analog watch hands) in a loop each time you click the center of the watch. (black-white-grey-red-green-blue-cyan-yellow-black)
the default font changed to the regular (plain) system font
if you click on center-bottom of the watchface, font face will change in a loop of 3 system fonts
Screenshots:
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Tried the free version - the information is nearly invisible...
Hi,
I like the idea of your watch face. However, since I use a dark wallpaper - and since your watchface is using that wallpaper as a background; most of the text etc in the watchface becomes invisible.
So: would it be possible to have a background provided by you - to ensure that the colors etc. you use are visible?
Thank you
Is it possible to put the clock in 24 hour mode ? I only have am/pm mode.
Does this work with Gearfaces from Gearfaces.com?
24 hour format would be great to have
Basic clock app for AMOLED screens.
Contains: Digital Clock
Reminder Text Field
Will maybe contain: Custom color picker for clock
Calendar View*
Changing between Digital and Analog clock
*Only problem with this is that the CalendarView is pretty limited, and I haven't found a way to change the date color, so it's not black numbers on a black background.
I am continuing developing this simple app, however, I don't have much time and much android programming knowledge. If you can help, I will gladly accept it.
Download?
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When I originally got my S3 Frontier I created these watch faces with Galaxy Watch Studio and after buying my Watch 4 Classic I ported them over with Watch Face Studio and after doing a little editing and testing they worked great with the Galaxy Watch 4 but regardless I thought I would share so here you go..............enjoy and let me know what you think!
Wood-N-Daimonds
One of my first designs, decided to post here and see how it goes. It kind of a South-Western style design with a diamond index and a wood background and wood hands and a Longhorn skull logo. Its both old school analog and digital with indicators for heartbeat, battery level, and steps moved. Double-tapping upper side will bring up the S-Health steps app, double tapping lower will bring up calendar/schedule app, double tapping the left will bring up S-Health/Heart Rate app, double tapping the right will bring up Battery Status and double tapping the center will bring up the timer app.
Rebel Yell
This one is my favorite and the one I regularly use, its another one of my rednecky looking south-western style designs with a south westerny\military-ish\Native American-ish looking type of index on a wooden background (with some bullet holes in it if you look closely) and kind of goldeny\wooden looking hands with a Longhorn skull logo. Its both old school analog and new fangled digital with indicators for both heartbeat, battery level, and steps moved. Double-tapping upper side will bring up the S-Health steps app, double tapping lower will bring up calendar/schedule app, double tapping the left will bring up S-Health/Heart Rate app, double tapping the right will bring up Battery Status and double tapping the center will bring up the timer app.
Desert Sun
Another one of my South-Western style designs with a diamond index and a desert background with gold hands and a Longhorn skull logo. Its both old school analog and digital with indicators for heartbeat, battery level, and steps moved. Double-tapping upper side will bring up the S-Health steps app, double tapping lower will bring up calendar/schedule app, double tapping the left will bring up S-Health/Heart Rate app, double tapping the right will bring up Battery Status and double tapping the center will bring up the timer app.