Timer widget - General Questions and Answers

hi all!
i know there are plenty of threads on this topic but they are either very old or miss the mark.
i am looking for a small (1x1) timer widget where i can preset a length (like 30 mins) tap the widget and the timer starts. and preferably i can have multiple widgets for different lengths.
something like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.gira.widget.countdown but for minutes instead of days if you will. the closest i could find is this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mta.countdown but here a tap on the widget still only opens up the timer and i have to dial in what i need before i can start it...
thank you very much for reading
kind regards
edit: i just found this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shreyasr.quicktimer and thats pretty close to what i want but i'd rather not have a 4x1 widget with a bunch of timers on it i dont need or want if possible

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Display Seconds and World time in Homescreen

Hi all..
Is it possible to display seconds after the hour, minutes and in front of the AM/PM display in the homescreen clock of a SMARTPHONE?
You know, like hh:mm:ss tt format?
I tried this in the HKLM/nls/overrides entry, but it only shows hh:mm tt, seconds are not displayed.
If the seconds are displayed, does it take more battery power, due to the constantly changing display?
Also is it possible to display atleast one world clock in the SMARTPHONE today screen by using some xml edit, and without using another plugin? If not, with a plugin? I searched everywhere, but none seemed to have a good smartphone plugin.
Codecity CityTime was said to have one plugin in 1.5, but now they are 2.0 and dont seem to have a SMARTPHONE homescreen plugin. And I cant find the 1.5 version anywhere either.
BTW, my device is a samsung blackjack2 (SCH i617)
Thanks guys..
Regards
Steve
for clock with seconds on home screen, i use Pocket Digital Clock
for world clock, i use SPB Time
Thanks, but it didnt work in my smartphone. Guess its for Professional
maybe it' time to get a professional phone? haha
Not that netnerd, I already have two Professionals (the latest being Tilt which you should know being in USA), but I find this more handy, thats why

[App Request] Line Graph Widget

Hi devs, I got a (hopefully) simple request for you guys. I'm attempting to do a bit of weightloss right now, and have a whole homescreen dedicated to it (like 3 apps, lol)
What I would really love to see is a widget (like 3x4) that shows me a line graph that has current weight as the y axis, and day as the x axis. Would be great to sync it to a calander, so every month, it auto-resets the widget to a new set of 30/31 days.
Finally, when you click on the widget, maybe be able to see your total progress since you started, and a field to input that days results?
I hope none of that is too hard. I am no programmer, so while I don't think it looks to difficult, I have no clue.

[APP REQUEST] $25 - Very simple IMO, read on...

Hello, all. I know there are a few apps like this out on the market, but none of them meet my needs just right and none of them are visually pleasing at all. I have been an EMT for ten years now, and sometimes when it gets very busy you just can't keep track of call times. All I want is an app with a very subtle, greyed out widget that I can place on my home screen and each time I click that widget it logs the time I did so. I would also need a way to clear the time log and save the logs for transcription later and then delete them. Again, each press of the little widget on my screen logs a time. Perhaps the widget on screen could look similar to the 1x1 buttons for SwitchPro Widget with a little clock on it and transparent as well. Sorry for being long-winded, and thank you all for your time and consideration. PM me with any questions. Have a great day.
-E

What are your favorite widgets?

Let me apologize in advance for this first post in this thread, I didn't want to create a bunch of separate threads for my opinion and experience with the G Tablet, and I didn't want a bunch of threads about my uses for the tablet and the apps I use. So instead, I'll first ask the original topic and then I'll give you some information about how I use the tablet and the widgets/apps/etc. that I use. Hopefully someone from Google will find this insightful, because I think my setup could be a great generic "spring board" for anyone who wanted to use this tablet for taking notes on images, and personalize it to their needs.
What are your favorite widgets?
Does anyone know of some widgets that do the following (screenshots are greatly appreciated as well!):
- I wouldn't mind a news reader that displayed more than just the first line of the news article and/or title. Currently I am using Express News, but it only does one line... it's better than the others I've tested, but it doesn't even automatically scroll the news. You have to tap left/right to make it change.
- Is there some weather widget that perhaps does 5 or 7 day forecasts ? I'm using Fancy Widgets right now, it says the temperature, the high and low, and the time. I dont really need the time, not a big deal since it already says it on the top right.
- I wouldn't mind a task management widget, a decent sized one would be nice.
Some other thoughts:
With the new G Tablet I got yesterday, I've quickly discovered the screen is quite HUGE (obviously). I have a Evo 4G, rooted since the day I got it, and I've got some favorite apps. But being a tablet, it has some different purposes that it works better at, than a phone.
For instance, as a bathroom reader, the tablet works great. The phone is kind of small, hard to read a lot at a time, constant scrolling, etc. The tablet also makes playing games like Slice It, a lot more fun.
I'm a web developer and manager of a small team, so sometimes it's nice to be able to take screenshots of a site we're working on and add arrows and notes to it - the best solution I've found that lets you load images and write on them and save it, is called "Pocket Sketchbook Pro" - and it switches to landscape mode automatically THANK GOD! Honestly, one of the main reasons I bought a tablet is because I wanted to be able to sketch things on a "near" paper sized display, and then immediately share it via Bluetooth to my computer or Email it or print it. My printer is a HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus, my point in telling you that is because it has its own email address. If I email my printer, it will print the email & attachment I send it. Very useful when I'm out with a client and I want to print off my notes or mockups, etc. so that I have it waiting for me when I get back.
Forgot to mention that I'm using Toshiba Home Launcher, on my phone I use LauncherPro (paid version) and I love both. They've both got their benefits, Toshiba Launcher is just amazing on a tablet. Vegan 5.1 Beta.
One of my few complaints (other than many apps not switching to landscape mode..) is that when I'm holding the tablet in portrait mode, sometimes my screen will turn off. I guess the power button is receiving enough weight/pressure on it that it's going off. And then sometimes it will reboot on me when I go to wake it up! How annoying is that?! I know that I could just switch the tablet upside down.. but I should be able to hold it any way I want.
Oh, and the Rain-X idea was great. Definitely fewer finger prints and my fingers seem to glide across the screen now.
Also, Multi Picture Live Wallpaper is great.. I was getting tired of seeing the scrunched/weirdly resized wallpapers!
Lastly, Dolphin HD with a few addons = awesome. Web2PDF so I can email the PDF to my printer, Screen cropper which lets me save as an image so I can write notes on it with Pocket Sketchbook Pro, and the Blue Theme make it really awesome.
Weather Widget
Weather forecast widget is free, but the text is too crumped together and the 4x1 just doesn't look right.
Then I tried "weather widgets", but it kind of sucked.
Then I found out that Fancy Widget has a Pro version which does what I need for $1.99 - works great.
Task Widget
Taskos looked very promising, as it syncs with Google Tasks and offers a 4x4 widget on the home screen - something I was excited about. What killed my excitement was placing the widget on my home screen and finding out that - yeah it's 4x4 alright, with only 2x2 actually having any freaking content!! The rest of it was black! On the phone it looks correct, so this is definitely a tablet issue. That sucks hard.
So finally I found one that actually works, it's called Ultimate To-Do List, the licensed version is $5 and it syncs with ToodleDo which costs $14.95/yr and up (if you require subtasks like me).
I haven't done any digging yet on a good news widget. With almost 100 page views I'm surprised nobody has any widgets they recommend
Scrollable news widget and a home launcher that allows you to change the number of rows and columns on your screen. I have mine set to 10 columns and 7 rows and I can make my news widget as large as I want and it will fill the Widgets space
Oh and springpad is one of the best to do lists ever with a very nice expandable widget as well
kpowr82 said:
Scrollable news widget and a home launcher that allows you to change the number of rows and columns on your screen. I have mine set to 10 columns and 7 rows and I can make my news widget as large as I want and it will fill the Widgets space
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LauncherPro lets you set your own # col/row and you can drag widgets to resize them on the screen, but I like the Toshiba launcher more because of the nice scrollable application list and they way they cleaned it up and put it at the bottom even though it's landscape mode - I love it. I can live with the defined # of cols/rows and screens, thats not a big deal. I know I'm limiting myself to just the widgets that exist that can take advantage of the tablet's size, but there has to be SOMETHING out there by now, right?
kpowr82 said:
Oh and springpad is one of the best to do lists ever with a very nice expandable widget as well
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Hmm I will check that out, thanks
For weather related Widgets I recommend this app:
Palmary weather app. Tried to paste the appbrain link here but my GTab wont let me!

[REQ]Car friendly UI

I am thinking of installing an Android tablet into my car as a carpc. Android is not very vehicle (minimal attention) friendly so an app maybe a home screen type application could solve this.
I have an idea of what it could look like nothing to complex. I attached a mock up. The buttons on the right can be bigger or more of them and can be customizable (auto call text playlist) the volume on the right could be a stage up down (more clicks the louder long press for mute) or slider whichever. Perhaps digital OBD II gauges could be added as well if screen size is big enough.
Haptic feed back and definitive clicks sounds should be optional so you know you have hit a key.
The wall paper behind everything should be customizable maybe visualizer or album art users choice.
I think simple gesture could be implemented as well slide for new song up or down for voice activities (voice search or vlingo) I'd have no idea what to do on the programing side, but I could learn and help.
Any ideas or volunteers leave a comment if this is done I'll delete but I could not see such an app not that I knew what to search for. this could be quite popular in the CarPC forums if it has not been done before. Market wise ad supported with a one time payment pro version (2-5$) would probably have best sales. (I just want the app take the idea nothing expected here, except maybe I get it free ;-). I'll help test)
bump it up
Android Car Dock available in 2.2+
Its a stock app
Not quite what I'm looking for all that is is short cuts to non mobile friendly apps. It also doesn't look as seamless as a single solution would.
Try Desktop Visulizer, it can create as big icons as you want, selecting custom images.
A new home screen and widgets seem to be the best choice at this point. "Where I'm at" widget is great for the maps part and a volume up down widget works great for volume. I haven't found a reliable media mute widget tho. Just about any music player has a mobile friendly widget.
A voice command app that pauses music correctly would really help though lol.
I'm interested send me a pm with more info and ill look into it
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it is possible to have a map view in the middle of the application but not a navigation view as it is not documented by the api and simple odb2 data is easy its just serial data but not being able to ingrate navigation posses a problem
I was talking to the developer of "Where I'm At" and he said he would look into it. Could an alternative GPS app be used or even a 2x1 widget with next turn direction. Sounds like the best bet would be a new app with everything built in already. That would take away from customization of different music apps unless an option was coded in.
jjcd51590 said:
I was talking to the developer of "Where I'm At" and he said he would look into it. Could an alternative GPS app be used or even a 2x1 widget with next turn direction. Sounds like the best bet would be a new app with everything built in already. That would take away from customization of different music apps unless an option was coded in.
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Only if it was open source because most navigation apps are paid and it is against the terms of service to use
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