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Weather Watcher

Not sure if any of you could use this weather tool I found. You can put in any zip code or city, state or most countries. It has a small profile of about 200kb, decent graphics and five tabs (Currently, Hourly, Daily, Detail & Alerts). You can have several cities or zips.
Cons are:
1. Weather not located on today screen.
2. Takes some time to upload all the information but you can have it automatically or manually update for you when you open it.
PS: I've tested it and it works with WM5-6

please work
thanks . nice one

This is by far my favorite weather app, especially since it is free.

jac said:
Not sure if any of you could use this weather tool I found. You can put in any zip code or city, state or most countries. It has a small profile of about 200kb, decent graphics and five tabs (Currently, Hourly, Daily, Detail & Alerts). You can have several cities or zips.
Cons are:
1. Weather not located on today screen.
2. Takes some time to upload all the information but you can have it automatically or manually update for you when you open it.
PS: I've tested it and it works with WM5-6
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There is a update to this. 107.

Here Is The update:

Ahh very cool thanks guys!

Weather Watcher Mobile v1.0.10
Update Description(pocket pc):
v1.0.10:
- ADDED: Stardock skin icon set.
- CHANGED: Modified the default skin encoding to resolve broken icons.
v1.0.9:
- FIXED: Map was not displaying until the "Map Width" setting was modified in the "Map" section of the Weather Watcher Mobile Options.
v1.0.8:
- FIXED: Celsius temperature conversion in the detailed (daily text) weather forecast.
Windows Mobile 2003/5/6, Pocket PC/Smartphone, Free download

hendrixus said:
Update Description(pocket pc):
v1.0.10:
- ADDED: Stardock skin icon set.
- CHANGED: Modified the default skin encoding to resolve broken icons.
Free download
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just downloaded it and the icons still dont show

Update v1.0.12
v1.0.12:
- FIXED: Made a few more adjustments to prevent Opera from launching when running Weather Watcher Mobile.
v1.0.11:
- ADDED: Forecast icon set by Wojciech Grzanka at IconBest.com.
- FIXED: Now displays the weather data properly when Opera is installed.
http://www.singerscreations.com/WWM1012.CAB

Update v1.0.17
Update Description:
v1.0.17:
- FIXED: "Snow accumulating to x to x inches" was not being converted properly in the detailed forecast when using a precipitation conversion other than inches.
- FIXED: Hourly forecast was displaying incorrect day names when the weather was updated between 11 PM and 12 AM.
Download location

[APP] ammar 12 Button Action Screen {update 17/04/09 - v 1.11 Italian Version}

Based on metkosas 12 button action screen for HD (Thank you for your great work metkosas)
Here is my 12 button screen;
- Skin based on Fabliv skin from diamond (background changed to plain black)
- Shutdown function added built-in
- bluetooth will be activated in discovarable mode.
- Google maps assigned by default to GPS button
[Update 17/04/2009]
- v 1.11 Italian version
- Icons turn green when touched (same as v1.1)
- "Action" shortcut is set on left manila softkey instead of right (as many requested)
[Update 06/03/2009]
- v 1.1 French version
- v 1.1 Spanish version
[Update 01/02/2009]
- v 1.1 English version
- Now when pressing on an icon it will change to green so you know it is pressed
[Update 22/01/2009]
- German version (thanks to Ascenca83 for translation)
- Shutdown function replaced by softreset
[Update 22/01/2009] removed & replaced by ITA v1.11
- Italian version v1.01 added
- Change log: Shutdown function replaced by softreset
[Update 20/01/2009] removed & replaced by ITA v1.11
- Italian version (thanks to bolevo for translattion)
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{NOTE: Please install on internal memory NOT SD Card}

nice icons
come to my thread to have them all together.

it's possible to relinked task and appointment in the best program for calendar?
thumbcal
and the botton gps using for?
thanks in advance

where do i go in registry or xml file to link shortcuts to different apps? For example i want to link new contact to new thumbcal new contact?

Thanks Ammar looks great, I changed it a bit to have the Right soft key kept for programs and assigned the iGO8 to the GPS button, and "the rest button" is to "\Program Files\psShutXP\psShutXP.exe"as not all devices have the psShutXP installed by default.

Thank you very much
This is very elegant yet sexy... so simple yet increased the functionality of my device 3 fold... your a legend! Ta

taiseer999 said:
Thanks Ammar looks great, I changed it a bit to have the Right soft key kept for programs and assigned the iGO8 to the GPS button, and "the rest button" is to "\Program Files\psShutXP\psShutXP.exe"as not all devices have the psShutXP installed by default.
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Hey taiseer,
glad you like it, by the way my action screen will install psShutXp including matching skin on your HD and link the shutdown button to it without any modification so no need to install it again.
Note: tested on device memory installation. not sure if links will be broken if installed on memory card.
please share your findings.
Salam bro

CutePinkSox said:
This is very elegant yet sexy... so simple yet increased the functionality of my device 3 fold... your a legend! Ta
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you are welcome. like your sox by the way

ammar said:
Based on metkosas 12 button action screen for HD (Thank you for your great work metkosas)
Here is my 12 button screen;
- Skin based on Fabliv skin from diamond (background changed to plain black)
- Shutdown function added built-in
- bluetooth will be activated in discovarable mode.
- Google maps assigned by default to GPS button
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Could you describe what this software does please? It's not clear from your first post. Do I have to search for "metkosas" to find out?

SiliconS said:
Could you describe what this software does please? It's not clear from your first post. Do I have to search for "metkosas" to find out?
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Opps....! Sorry I though everybody know it by now! My mistake.
It is a shortcut launcher which will change the right softkey on Home screen from “Programs” to “Action” and when you hit it will open a screen like the attached photo in the first post to give you fast access to the displayed shortcut icons.
Hope it is clear now

ammar said:
Opps....! Sorry I though everybody know it by now! My mistake.
It is a shortcut launcher which will change the right softkey on Home screen from “Programs” to “Action” and when you hit it will open a screen like the attached photo in the first post to give you fast access to the displayed shortcut icons.
Hope it is clear now
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Ahh, now that is a good idea. I don't need that now but it's good to know it exists.
Thank you for the explanation.

Great work ammar!

This is actually a very useful app. Thanks.
PS: Would be great if you could add a shortcut to switch 3G on the off!

bolevo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473059
First of all thanks for your beatiful program!!!
Is it possible to have Italian language version?
If you want I give you the translation of the word.
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Hey bolevo, check 1st post. Italian version online

Many thanks ammar!!!

So could you also do a german version?
Here the translations needed:
Appointment = Termin
Task = Aufgabe
Note = Notiz
Contact = Kontakt
Camera = Fotokamera
Shutdown = Ausschalten
But instead of a Shutdown button, couldnt you reassign it to a softreset? Then the translation would be:
Softreset/Reboot = Neustart or Softreset
Thanks in advance for your effort! Nice work!

If the shutdown button is equal to power off, then the italian translation by bolevo is wrong, cause "Riavvio" is the translation of "softreset". You should change it to "Spegnimento"

Salam ya Ammar,
الحمد الله Its a good work.
Sorry but my opinion:,
Was better if your post with your icons, included at Metkosas thread.
There is no reason to have 2 threads about the same subject

help
Sorry, can Yuo help me please?
I have 2 e-mail accaunts instaled:
1. Outlook (exchange)
2.Gmail accaunt
So, when i press on mail icon - it starts Gmail (new e-mail From: Gmail accaunt)
Is ther a possibility make to start Outlook e-mail instade?

Hi ammar, thanks for this sw. Can I ask, why in the fabliv version when I tap on some icon of actionscreen the icon become green on board, instead on your version not change?

[Ideas] Bada Modifications.

I would like to hear your ideas for Bada modifications, what things do you want to see done to Bada?
Everything and anything goes! (within reason)

My wishlist.
-
Delete some unneeded "Icons"... because I can remove Facebook, Twitter ...
But few JAVA Midlets are somewhere protected against remove.
I was able to delete jar, jad, Icon but Icon still there in menu
Where is the Database entry to clear?
Preinstalled Widget too...
-
120 Apps Limit...
Hmm, there are other ways to replace ... BUT why 120 Apps are Maximum?
-
Developer signed Apps are only 1 possible to activate...
bada SDK Samples for instance...
Via Broker.exe Install seems more then 1 work at the same time... Why?
And how to expand to install more then 1 App at same time.
-
Filemanager bada App with Access to internal Filesystem.
I'm sure that Samsung will not allow this on their Store... but is it possible.
Someone told their are no APIs to access internal folder...
maybe invetigation of apps_compressed.bin will help to find "Commands"...
-
Folder delete in internal FS
I can create folder with PSAS, but can't delete. They are writeprotected.
More ideas hopefully later...
Best Regards

well for instance i wanna change the keyboard to either htc or iphone.... this one is too crammy like congested.... wanna have a spacious potrait keyboard......... and with universal setting like if i wanna activate predective text it should apply everywhere... not just in messages........ and it should always stay on..........
secondly i wud like to see more UI modifications beyond just themes...... like changing the status bar or the way notifications occur and stuff........... custom roms maybe... variety is a good thing...

I'd like to see:
Ability to create widgets or widget like apps using system parameters..
For eg: GPRS data, browser bookmarks, setting wallpapers etc..
Customization of the top Notification Panel buttons.
Filemanager Drag and Drop to move files and folders
A memory cleanup application.
Big Aspect sized thumbnails for videos.. now we cannot distinguish videos in thumb view.
More Right click options in files/folders - i.e., Click and Hold to show Menu options to Move/Copy/Delete/Rename/Open with/etc..

I'd like to see shortcuts (with names) like on Android and continous autofocus in the video cam !

My ideas or things I want in Bada
Here are my ideas :
1. Ability to replace whole UI like Android.
2. Folders in Menu.
3. Text-reflow in Browser.
5. Unlimited Menu pages and Home screens.
6. Unlimited SMS storage (why you want to restrict us to 1300 on a SMARTPHONE )
7. Sending Group SMS to any number of people (can be very useful for certain type of
businesses. Did u think about it Sammy ?)
8. Auto-hide of Notification bar and Lower bar after certain amount of time or on Tap.
9. Different Wallpapers on every home screen.
10. Better animations.
11. Smaller icons. 4x5 grid with an option to change to suit consumers' taste.
12. Notification Drop down to have buttons for APN, Brightnesss.
13. In-built Backup-Restore app for all phone data. User should be able to select to what he
wants to backup or restore.
14. Highly efficient GPS. (I would not like to buy a BMW whose tires I have to fix. I have
paid for it, btw.)
15. Better Facebook(with chat), Twitter and IM app atleast Gtalk. Current one plainly sucks
16. Various bugs in Messaging to be fixed.
17. Select all and Mark as read option in Email app.
18. Universal availability of Social Hub Premium.
19. A little better sound output through speakers (it is based on personal taste only )
20. Text-reflow and Pinch-to-zoom in Email app.
21. Soft buttons for Menu and Back.
22. All applications to have Exit button.
more to come.................
Out of all these I have already solved 7th but then everybody can't make changes to the file system.
Yes, I do love Bada and its potential. Its simplicity is killing feature
Thanks !

I think user experience would benefit by implementing GPU acceleration in UI and browser as in IOS and Windows phone 7.

TigerCourage said:
I'd like to see shortcuts (with names) like on Android and continous autofocus in the video cam !
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Hi all. @TigerCourage on AF I play with the camera settings file "CamSetting.ini" in folder "Registry" can be seen with the program "sTune" (I started some new options "IntelligentAuto" I do not know what does). There is also an option to focus on video recording "RecordFocusMode" from "0" to "2" default "0". Try setting but do backup before (right click and copy).
Try my sample file

frxbg said:
Hi all. @TigerCourage on AF I play with the camera settings file "CamSetting.ini" in folder "Registry" can be seen with the program "sTune" (I started some new options "IntelligentAuto" I do not know what does). There is also an option to focus on video recording "RecordFocusMode" from "0" to "2" default "0". Try setting but do backup before (right click and copy).
Try my sample file
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did it work for you?

frxbg said:
Hi all. @TigerCourage on AF I play with the camera settings file "CamSetting.ini" in folder "Registry" can be seen with the program "sTune" (I started some new options "IntelligentAuto" I do not know what does). There is also an option to focus on video recording "RecordFocusMode" from "0" to "2" default "0". Try setting but do backup before (right click and copy).
Try my sample file
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I try and I think not works.
Could you explain the issue better?
thanks.

frxbg said:
Hi all. @TigerCourage on AF I play with the camera settings file "CamSetting.ini" in folder "Registry" can be seen with the program "sTune" (I started some new options "IntelligentAuto" I do not know what does). There is also an option to focus on video recording "RecordFocusMode" from "0" to "2" default "0". Try setting but do backup before (right click and copy).
Try my sample file
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Doesn't work mate, I tried copying your file and then doing a soft rest and it didn't work. I also tried playing with options like RecordFocusMode and IntelligentAuto but still the same...
It would be very AWESOME if we get continous autofocus on Wave!

rex4u said:
Here are my ideas :
1. Ability to replace whole UI like Android.
2. Folders in Menu.
3. Text-reflow in Browser.
5. Unlimited Menu pages and Home screens.
6. Unlimited SMS storage (why you want to restrict us to 1300 on a SMARTPHONE )
7. Sending Group SMS to any number of people (can be very useful for certain type of
businesses. Did u think about it Sammy ?)
8. Auto-hide of Notification bar and Lower bar after certain amount of time or on Tap.
9. Different Wallpapers on every home screen.
10. Better animations.
11. Smaller icons. 4x5 grid with an option to change to suit consumers' taste.
12. Notification Drop down to have buttons for APN, Brightnesss.
13. In-built Backup-Restore app for all phone data. User should be able to select to what he
wants to backup or restore.
14. Highly efficient GPS. (I would not like to buy a BMW whose tires I have to fix. I have
paid for it, btw.)
15. Better Facebook(with chat), Twitter and IM app atleast Gtalk. Current one plainly sucks
16. Various bugs in Messaging to be fixed.
17. Select all and Mark as read option in Email app.
18. Universal availability of Social Hub Premium.
19. A little better sound output through speakers (it is based on personal taste only )
20. Text-reflow and Pinch-to-zoom in Email app.
21. Soft buttons for Menu and Back.
22. All applications to have Exit button.
more to come.................
Out of all these I have already solved 7th but then everybody can't make changes to the file system.
Yes, I do love Bada and its potential. Its simplicity is killing feature
Thanks !
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great list!!!

TigerCourage said:
Doesn't work mate, I tried copying your file and then doing a soft rest and it didn't work. I also tried playing with options like RecordFocusMode and IntelligentAuto but still the same...
It would be very AWESOME if we get continous autofocus on Wave!
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Hey how you copy a file because the file copied to the phone is only by drag and drop. If you are able to copy my files when you start the camera will see the icon "sA" without restarting the phone. Otherwise the effect of the settings I have attached the file with changed sound of shooting

frxbg said:
Hey how you copy a file because the file copied to the phone is only by drag and drop. If you are able to copy my files when you start the camera will see the icon "sA" without restarting the phone. Otherwise the effect of the settings I have attached the file with changed sound of shooting
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Yes I copied by drag and drop and I've seen your "sA" icon at the beginning but the continous autofocus is nowhere to be seen...

Is there anyway to save camera shoot images in uncompressed format so that the quality of captured images will be maximum?

I would like to have a "fast-access" GPS button - next to the mute button ("green" menu). I'm really sure that this function will be very popular!

"Originally Posted by rex4u
Here are my ideas :"
about ur 7 th point (group sms to any no. of people).. this can be done using stune... jst modify the ini of messages settings there the limit is set to 10.. i dont remember the exact folder
and too lazy to look ... jst play around and see if u find it. otherwise i'll find it for u

I would like to have more keyboard languages (with T9 or whatever it's called on the Wave).
I have seen a friend of mine with a Wave from Vodafone, and he has 30+ langage/keyboard optinons. On my wave (normal German FW) I have about 10. No Cyrillic characters, no Chinese, no Arabian...
How am I supposed to use the full functionality of such a wonderful phone if i can't write an email to a friend /business associate in Russia for example.
I could grump about it a few more pages, but the essence should already be clear
P.S. AFAIK the languages are stored in the CSC flash file, so it's not so easy to "just add" some in, but I hope someone from samsung might also see this and think about it.

Android.=D

If i where a moderator or administrator i would ban that guy for inciting flame wars...

[Icon Set] AppTile & AppIcons for Advanced Config [Collection Thread]

My colletion of AppIcons & AppTiles for replacing the icons with Advanced Config by Julien Schaps.
Added new Glass Icons & Some more Icons to the non Glass version.
Instructions;
Download & Install Advanced Configuration Tool for Windows Phone 7 Beta from above link. Download is near the middle of the page above the comments & advertisement.
Copy the AppTile_*.png & AppIcon_*.png's to \Windows of the device using Windows Phone Device Manager or the USB Hack/TouchXplorer/Advance Explorer methods.
Open Advanced Config Tool & change to Tile & Icons tab.
Select desired app/hub & then select the desire AppTile & AppIcon png's. (Some Hubs/App are currently disabled in the Advanced Config tool because they have Live Tiles & changing those Tile images will cancel out the Live Tile Functionality.)
Select Change, then OK to confirm changes.
There's a second pop up asking you to restart to make changes, click OK if done, Cancel if you want to change more icons.
NOTE: According to the developer of Advanced Configuration Tool, schaps, it works with HTC & LG devices for change icons. The tool also has some support for Samsung devices, but NOT Icon changing. Please report any problems about it not working to the developer. This thread is just a collection thread for icons. I can't help getting it working.
DONATIONS:
FlowerPotmen = $10.00 ($5.00 x 2)
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Not exactly an XDA thing or on topic, but found an interesting Windows tweak for Media Center. I've always hated how if you mute Media Center, it mutes the system volume so you can't play music/youtube/etc in the background really. Well I found an app/shortcut "hack" that'll allow this. Download Media Center Mute & follow the instructions included. The just click the shortcut to mute/unmute Media center without effecting the system volume.
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Thank you
The adobe reader icon is very beautiful

No problem, just made a few new icons. Uploading the new zip in a few seconds.

Very pretty! you are going to you do other..?

i have a question. i went to touchxperience site download a bunch of files. all were compressed . cab files. Wanted to use advanced config tool so i could change some icons but honestly i do not know how to install the thing let alone use it.
so i would appreciate some help getting this up and running.
using omnia 7
edit: nevermind, did some digging, it is htc only atm and xaps were available as stated below.

drkfngthdragnlrd said:
No problem, just made a few new icons. Uploading the new zip in a few seconds.
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Hi Very nice is there any reason why you made the tiles 200x200 the default size for live tiles is 173x173

Can i upload my custom icons here too? Or should we open a collection thread?

tchitchicruise said:
Very pretty! you are going to you do other..?
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I am going to be doing more as time goes on. I also made a glass over lay for the tile, just need to figure out how to customize the tiles first.
magistrala669 said:
i have a question. i went to touchxperience site download a bunch of files. all were compressed . cab files. Wanted to use advanced config tool so i could change some icons but honestly i do not know how to install the thing let alone use it.
so i would appreciate some help getting this up and running.
using omnia 7
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DOWNLOAD LINK
The site has both WM 6.5 CAB files & WP7 XAP files. You want the XAP files, he makes apps for both OS'es. You need your device Unlocked & Tom XAP Installer v1.2 to side load the app. There are quite a few thread here on XDA that have instructions to Unlock your device.
rruffman said:
Hi Very nice is there any reason why you made the tiles 200x200 the default size for live tiles is 173x173
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No reason, I just didn't know the specific size & figured 200 x 200 should be big enough & would be scaled down.
TomaHawk93 said:
Can i upload my custom icons here too? Or should we open a collection thread?
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Be my guest to unload yours here. I'll change the title to "Collection Thread".

3 icons in metro style
These are my first icons, in metro style
Special made for:
Ascii Art SMS
DeBrander (Homebrew)
RemoveSideloadLimit (Homebrew)
I know they are not the greatest, but maybe you guys will like them

how to use the icon? which folder i can copy ?

just put them in the windows folder of your mobile (for example with the windows phone device manager) and apply them with the new advanced config tool.
@drkfngthdragnlrd Maybe you can put this in the first post

Thanks very much!!

Another question,why can not choose the people,phone,message .etc. when i change the icon.

Ok... No new thread
Sinse we can make this a Collection thread then ...
This is the first set of the icons that i will make for use in tiles.
If i find some time i will make another set...if you want any specific one
please let ne know..

Thx very much for your icons pack!
Have you an idea to find app Phone to change this to AppTile_phone.png
I can find with advanced tools 1.2..?
:-(

For now, those built in Hubs that have Live Tiles have been disabled by the Advanced Config developer. If you change those icons, you'd loose the Live Tile functionality.

tchitchicruise said:
Thx very much for your icons pack!
Have you an idea to find app Phone to change this to AppTile_phone.png
I can find with advanced tools 1.2..?
:-(
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The answer from drkfngthdragnlrd is correct ...for now they are disable...
I made some of them because this will change in next versions...
For the time all the live tiles app its good practice to not change the tile picture...

drkfngthdragnlrd said:
My colletion of AppIcons & AppTiles for replacing the icons with Advanced Config by Julien Schaps.
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those icons look nice but they are a terrible design for metro. too much chrome. tile icons should be basic

My idea of what WP7 should of looked like (Photoshopped, not real);

drkfngthdragnlrd said:
That's your opinion, personally i don't like the simplistic look. I like eye candy, which is why i release them for other who like eye candy. Instead of criticizing my work, why not make your own & post them here.
My idea of what WP7 should of looked like (Photoshopped, not real);
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m240/drkfngthdragnlrd/Capture.png?t=1304205182[/IMG[/QUOTE]
It's a fact that your design goes against the metro theme. There's a reason why MS didn't make anything look like that.
my opinion is that metro is better but it's good that you're making them for those of you who don't like metro and want eye candy. It does look good though
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[APP] AppStarter v4.0 | AppDrawer and Kodi / SPMC Updater for Amazon FireTV

Hit THANKS button if you like it!
Or buy me a cup of coffee, donation-link on GitHub​
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AppStarter
AppStarter: An AppDrawer and Kodi / SPMC Updater for Amazon FireTV:
This App is Open-Source, visit AppStarter on GitHub: https://github.com/sphinx02/AppStarter
Lists all user-installed apps including sideloaded / adb installed apps.
Apps can be easily sorted / ordered by settings-button or click-drag-and-drop (long-click to start drag-and-drop).
Apps can be hidden from app drawer (see settings).
Kodi and SPMC can be installed and updated directly out of AppStarter (see Updates section).
Possibility to change the time of no action the FireTV waits to go to sleep.
Possibility to import / export settings.
Show system and device informations like Android-Version, Build-Version, Hostname, WiFi- / WLAN Name (SSID), IP Adress and Uptime.
Automatic update mechanism.
__No root required!__
Reviews / Articles:
Just google for "AppStarter FireTV"
Install AppStarter:
Easy installation in less than 5 minutes with only the FireTV
https://github.com/sphinx02/AppStarter/wiki/Install-AppStarter-and-Kodi-(only-FireTV-needed)
Standard installation via ADB
If you don't know how to sideload/install apps via ADB, read a tutorial (e.g. this one)
Download latest AppStarter APK and sideload/install with adb:
adb install -r AppStarter_v4.0.apk
Enjoy..
TO UPDATE APP: Simply use the integrated updater mechanism.
Why using it:
AppStarter provides a nice possiblity to show all user installed Apps.
AppStarter provides an Updater for Kodi and SMPC which allows to keep these two Apps up to date in a very convinient way.
Changelog:
v4.0
Renamed App to AppStarter
Renamed package to de.belu.appstarter
Removed home button observation as not needed anymore
v3.2.3
Added SPMC updater (possibility to install and update SPMC).
Added simplified chinese translation (thx lostindark).
v3.2.2
Fixed wrong app start of apps using the leanback-lib (e.g. MagineTV)
Updated translations
v3.2.1
Fixed "parse packet error" for Kodi updates
Added setting to decide which Kodi version is installed / updated (stable, beta / rc, nightly)
v3.2
Added possiblity to install / update Kodi (see Updates section). Thank you very much attilaszasz for your contribution!
Made "Background for App Names" a bit brighter. Thanks semitop7 for your contribution!
Added semi-transparent background for system, updates and settings section if the "Background for App Names" setting is enabled. Thanks semitop7 for your contribution!
v3.1.1
Fixed flashing screen / start app problems (disabled JumpbackWatchdog for FireOS5).
Updated translations
v3.1
Added setting to show background for app names in the app drawer (helps to read app names when wallpaper is used).
Added setting to hide left selection bar when on the main screen (app drawer).
Fixed backup (export/import) settings feature for FireOS5.
Updated russian and ukranian translations (thanks sem_top7 and Kramar111).
v3.0
Optimized ADB connection mechansims for FireOS5. Should now work without disable + enable ADB after reboots. Still no parallel ADB connections possible.
Added shortcut to ADB settings in AppStarter settings.
Added first try of completely new detecting home-button clicks without adb (which is also used as Fallback after 3 failed ADB connects). The new non-ADB observation of the home-button works only if you are on the original Amazon FireTV Home screen. This means if you are in any other App like Kodi, you have to click the home button once to get to the Amazon FireTV Home screen and then you can single or double click the home-button to perform the action desired. In practice that means, you can also add one home button click if you are in another app. If you are for example in Kodi, you can do a double-click to the home-button to perform the single click operation and according to this you can do a triple click to perform the double click action. Sorry for this strange behaviour but due to technical limitations of Android, there is no other possibility without ADB at the moment.
Removed restart-option and replaced it with notification how to restart with the remote.
Better handling of the jumback-detection -> fixes some unnessecary jumpbacks especially when the click-action is "- No Action -" or "FireTV Home". You can again safely use the jumpback detection (e.g. with default of 5000ms)!
Option to start click-action apps with FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK -> Previous instances of the App are cleared before start (e.g. AppStarter then starts always on the first icon which is useful for some people with programmable remote's).
Everything only tested with FireOS4 on FireTV and with FireOS5 Developer Preview on FireTV-Stick. I am not yet able to test on a FireTV2 with the real FireOS5.
v2.7.2
Show device uptime and boot time in system tab
Back button returns to main app view if on another tab
Removed Go-To-Sleep functionality, as it is anyway possible via long-press home-button. The existing implementation was not reliable enough and made some problems under specific circumstances.
v2.7.1
Added russian and ukranian translations (any other language contributions are welcome). Thx to XDA user sem_top7 for the translations!
Fixed bug in file selector (no image files found in root-folder)
Fixed (hopefully) bug in manual language selection which sometimes lead to a mixed language
v2.7
Little redesign of the GUI
Added date & time information at top
Made the app-icons a little bit smaller (5 apps per row and still big enough)
Added customizable icon-size in settings
Added possibility to export / import settings
Added more informations to the system-tab
Added possibility to modify the time of no action till the FireTV goes to sleep
Added possibility to go directly to sleep from AppStarter (little hack, setting the time-to-sleep to a very short value and set it back after wake-up)
NOTES:
Be carefull with the go-to-sleep feature, only tested it on FireTV not on FireTV-Stick. Advanced users give me feedback if it works please .
The setting of the general time of no action till FireTV goes to sleep is safe to use. It is a default Android-Setting which can be edited by apps (I don't understand why Amazon isn't giving us this feature..).
v2.6
Custom wallpaper via settings (JPG / PNG cropped to fit screen)
Renamed "All Apps" to "Apps" and "Infos" to "System"
Added WiFi name to System-Tab
Added possibility to reboot FireTV to System-Tab
Added FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK and FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK to startup-action (perhaps helps some people reporting weird colors when starting Kodi as startup-action)
NOTES:
Tried to add sleep-button to bring FireTV to sleep-mode but it seems as this is not possible without root, if anyone knows anything else, please report...
Settings ex-/import and more themeable GUI are still on my TODO.
v2.5
Check out settings-button: Added menu for apps to move app (same than long-click) or to open app-specific settings
Items in the left selection bar are now also clickable with a mouse
Added german translation and manual setting of the current language
Spelling corrections
v2.4.1
Apps are not started with FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK which lets app resume their last activity.
Replaced some icons / made some visual optimizations
For timing settings, now the correct inputtype is used (number only keyboard is displayed).
Adjusted default-timings (only for fresh installations).
Minor fixes.
v2.4
Implemented jumpback prevention watchdog which prevents amazon home from coming to the foreground after click-actions (configurable in settings). Thanks XDA user harlekinrains for this idea.
Removed now unnessecary action-delay setting.
Added FireTV settings application to apps-list. Thanks XDA user fsi09 for this idea.
Some code cleanup / optimization.
v2.3
Fixed ugly bug in settings (kind of endless loop), which caused huge cpu-load and weird behaviour of settings storage.
Fixed bug when sysapp were set visible and apps were reordered, sysapps were not hided again on settings change.
Allow greater double-click interval and action delay (up to 1000ms).
v2.2
Added adjustable double-click interval and action-delay
Reordered settings
When going to app-drawer, first icon is automatically focused (configurable in settings)
Update service (able to update itself)
v2.1
Fixed problems on FireTV-Stick (which by default has multiple local adb-devices), thanks to harlekinrains for logcat-infos
Added AppStarter version to info view
v2.0
Real Home-Button detection, even double-home-button-clicks are captured
Completely new GUI with settings and additional Infos
Completely configurable actions
Hide-App feature
Screenshots:
Hit THANKS button if you like it!
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You can also include some informative things; time, date, weather etc. to the corners maybe.
Different backgrounds option might be a good feature to have.

@legendnexus
The current version is my "first shot" and for the beginning a good working solution was more important. But yes I also thought about adding some informative things.. Thank you, I will put it on my ToDo-List
@harlekinrains
Thank you for your detailed (and merciless^^) feedback:
You are right, the replacement-icon is grap, but I'm not a designer and in a quick way it shows the replacement capability and is better than the original IkonoTV-Icon. I think about a better one
Hiding apps is definetly planed, I add it to my ToDo-List. But at the moment I am not "guessing" which apps the user dont want to see, I simply do not show system apps but only user installed apps (except for kftv-launcher/amazonhome).
I am with you, that look&feel is very important and I try to work on this part
Your requirement:
I do not really understand your requirement, do you mean to simply start another app instead of the App but with the same home- and startup-detection? Is this not what AFTV Launcher Helper already does?

Ok I understand now, perhaps I will add this in future as an option.
For me it feels more attractive to have only one app without huge configuring steps.. For me the most important part is, that also beginners are able to use the App. That is why on the top of my ToDo-list are better installation instructions and possibility to install / keep updated some of the most famous apps from the App directly. So in the end my focus is really the usability espspecially for non-experts. I also think about a little (windows-) installation tool with auto-detection of the FireTV and Wizard-Charakter for the installation of the App. But this all is a lot of work and I dont know when I find the time to..
Anyway I am really happy to hear other's opinion and to get more inspiration by users, thank you again harlekinrains for your constructive feedback
BTW: Thanks for your uninstallation hint, perhaps I should also add an uninstallation routine, which cleans up the .imagecache-folder and triggers the the App uninstallation then..

v2.0
Forget what I realeased in v1.0, I am proud to present a completely new way of detecting the home-button-click in v2.0
The XDA-user g4rb4g3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56319876&postcount=87 pointed me to the right corner of the home-button detection and I think it works brilliant (as long as you keep adb-debugging enabled on the FireTV). As some requested, everything is completely configurable, so you can use my app also to only start your favourite apps.
v2.0
Real Home-Button detection, even double-home-button-clicks are captured
Completely new GUI with settings and additional Infos
Completely configurable actions
Hide-App feature
Hit THANKS button if you like it! ​

sphinx02 said:
Forget what I realeased in FireStarter v1.0, I am proud to present a completely new way of detecting the home-button-click in FireStarter v2.0
The XDA-user g4rb4g3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56319876&postcount=87 pointed me to the right corner of the home-button detection and I think it works brilliant (as long as you keep adb-debugging enabled on the FireTV). As some requested, everything is completely configurable, so you can use my app also to only start your favourite apps.
FireStarter v2.0
Real Home-Button detection, even double-home-button-clicks are captured
Completely new GUI with settings and additional Infos
Completely configurable actions
Hide-App feature
Hit THANKS button if you like it! ​
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Just tried your app. Works great. Very straightforward.
Thanks for your work

harlekinrains said:
On the Fire TV Stick - I get a toast "Starting Home Button observer takes to long"....
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Hey harlekinrains, too bad that it is not working on the firetv-stick out of the box. I had no firetv-stick to test, as my sister has it at the moment .
Thank you very much for the log's thats very helpful! I think we can rule out the performance of the firetv-stick, as the new way of catching the home-button click via adb is very performant. The only hard-coded timing is the waiting-time for the second click in the double-click detection. The other timings are only to trigger these informative toast messages. I think the reason could be, that on the firetv-stick usb-debugging is not possible? Could that be? That would not be an problem, I only have to change the way I connect to the local adb.
EDIT : Normally it must not be enabled in the settings. On my FireTV it is disabled and everything works perfect. The question was only: Is there a setting for usb-debugging on the FireTV-Stick?
If you have (and really only if you have) the time to, you can chek the following things (I do it on my own as far as I have the time to and have mit FireTV-Stick back):
From the shell of your pc go to the shell of the FireTV-Stick:
Code:
adb connect [IP of your FireTV-Stick]
adb shell
Then in the shell on the FireTV-Stick enter the following commands and tell me whats the output:
Code:
adb devices
adb logcat -c

harlekinrains said:
Give me just a sec - and thank the all mighty RNG for you having access to a FIre TV Stick. ....
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"All mighty RNG" - I dont get it :crying:
Thank you for the output, I think everything is clear now, the fact that there are by default two devices listed is the problem. I have to change my code to use adb with an explicit device. On my FireTV by default I have only the "emulator.."-entry which let it work without specifiing the adb-device..
Perhaps I can provide an update this afternoon, at the moment I am too busy

I have a Fire TV box and after a restart it says observer needs too long. That message is only viewable for seconds. The app doesnt work so far for me . Too bad

v2.1
After your feedback, I tried to fix the remaining problems especially on the FireTV-Stick. I had again no FireTV-Stick to test the changes but I'm pretty sure my changes will rule out the problems. Please tell me if it works on your devices
v2.1
Fixed problems on FireTV-Stick (which by default has multiple local adb-devices), thanks to harlekinrains for logcat-infos
Added app version to info view
Hit THANKS button if you like it! ​

Thanks for your quick support! I can confirm that this even works on the Fire TV BOX now! Big Thanks! One of the must have apps.

harlekinrains said:
Works now on the Fire TV Stick as well - as intended.
Allthough - it doesnt work all the time, depending on memory load
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But as with Fire TV Helper - it seems to be possible to set a condition, even without root - that a jumpback - to the amazon menu is not - triggered. I wander if a timed jumpback block would be helpful here as well - the logic goes:
Button pressed - jumpback block blocks execution of the Amazon menu for *user setable time in seconds* - App launches (has said seconds to launch without the risk of getting interrupted) - jumpback block to the Amazon menu is removed.
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So idk if it will be fixable by the approach above (prevent the Amazon launcher to (re)start for a set time window after pressing the home button).
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Hey harlekinrains, thank you again for your feedback
I dont have this behaviour on my FireTV but yes you're right, that sounds like a timing problem. The problem can be, that the new home-button detection method is too fast, which means that the launch of the custom-app is initiated before the launch of the amazon home launcher. Then it can happen, that the amazon launcher cames up instead of the custom selected app.
I can not imagine, that there is a way to prevent the amazon launcher from starting.. Dont know the feature of Fire TV Helper and I also cant jump into the sources, as it is not open source..
Two possibilities:
either I make a litte (customizable) delay for the custom start action (so e.g. the App or FiredTV is started with a little delay after the home-button-detection)
or somebody provides me with the ability to block the amazon-launcher from comming up..

I tried a little bit around and let TuneIn-Radio run in the background and then clicked like going wild^^ And infact when I set ES File Explorer as One-Click-Action and repeated clicking very fast single-clicks one after each other, I endend in a curious half-loaded amazon home screen. But a short view in the logcat showed, that not the App made something wrong but ES File Explorer was the reason, as it was in a "wake-lock" situation. Going to FireTV settings and force-stop ES File Explorer get it working again, perhaps thats the behaviour you ment? But thats some kind of monkey-test, I think nobody will switch apps that fast..
Anyway, in the next version I will add adjustable second-click-interval and also an adjustable delay for click-actions, perhaps this helps to prevent these situations..

v2.2
New Version with more adjustable settings and an integrated updater mechanism
@harlekinrains
Please check if your problems are solved by a little action-delay (I think something around 50ms should be enough).
@ all
Have fun with the new update
v2.2
Added adjustable double-click interval and action-delay
Reordered settings
When going to app-drawer, first icon is automatically focused (configurable in settings)
Update service (able to update itself)
Hit THANKS button if you like it! ​

Hmmm, ok none of this problems on my FireTV, it's hard to solve problems I can not reproduce.. But I have now again a FireTV-Stick of a friend of mine, so perhaps I can reproduce the behaviour on this device. But I guess you have to wait a little bit as I am on a little trip over the weekend.
One question: Are you now using the App (in daily use) or still only install it for testing? Would really feel happy if I got you as an user

harlekinrains said:
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May I also suggest, that you set up single click "no action" and doubleclick "the App" as the default action. It somehow makes the program feeling less "intrusive" (like its taking over a Fire TV functionality) and just delivers an added value (launching an alternative launcher). Which I guess would encourage more users to try using your app. At the same time, it doesnt focus on your launcher so much, so its a toss up. Im not invested personally either way - as you integrated the user setable options - Its just a thought. (And might not even be the right one.)
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I like your thoughts about the default-actions.. I think about it on the weekend Thank you for your frequent feedback, keep it up

i'll give this a try next week but right now i'm too busy to test it.
Ps: Sorry für den Abstieg :<

Hume Button Settings
First things first....great work....love the clean look of FireStarter-Launcher :good:
my only concern is the action taking, by clicking the HomeButton once.
Is there a chance to get back to the Amazon Home by clicking the HomeButton only one time and not by doubleclicking the homebutton?
I think this part is missing in the settings menu for the HomeButton single click action.....or am i wrong? :silly:
kind regards

Hey thanks for this Launcher, I really like it
I testet FiredTV Launcher too and the only thing that it missing in your app is: please let the app show the settings app so I can start it via your launcher, so i dont have to use the Amazon launcher anymore
(With show system apps I cant find the settings app)

v2.3
Hello everybody, back from my WE trip I found a really bad bug in the settings handling which on one hand caused that the action-delay have not been saved and on the other hand also caused unnessecary cpu-load. I fixed that bug and another bug with show-sys-apps setting. I also tested the App on a FireTV-Stick and it worked quite good. With the now working action-delay setting, I got very good results by leaving the double-click interval default and setting the action-delay to 100ms. But also with the default 10ms I had never one of theses half-amazon-home, half-app-screens.. Perhaps its also depended on what else is installed or running on the stick, I will keep an eye on it..
Thank you all for your feedback and have fun with the new bugfix-release which can be updated in-app via the updater-mechanism
v2.3
Fixed ugly bug in settings (kind of endless loop), which caused huge cpu-load and weird behaviour of settings storage.
Fixed bug when sysapp were set visible and apps were reordered, sysapps were not hided again on settings change.
Allow greater double-click interval and action delay (up to 1000ms).
Hit THANKS button if you like it! ​