I am looking for a good, stable, non-spyware-including weather widget that is about half-screen and has forcasts for the upcoming days on the front screen. The "news and weather" widget included with the phone is too small. Anyone have any favorites? I would try a bunch but I don't want to junk up my phone if I don't have to.
First app I ever paid for and worth every penny. eWeather
Beautiful widgets. Have some nice clocks widgets too
Beweather pro is 99cents today. I believe it does that. Still my favorite weather app. I am going to buy that right now actually.
The only whether widget I would ever pay for is BEAUTIFUL WIDGETS on the app store. Try the free version first to check it out. It's AMAZING!
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Both Beautiful Widgets and HD Widgets are really nice.
Though not a widget, RadarScope is the absolute best app as far as looking at real-time weather radars.
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I am looking for some decent widgets for example the clock/weather widget that is on the evo. Same with a message widget similar to the one on the evo. Any ideas would be very helpfull. And if anyone has any snapshots of their screens to get some ideas of how to lay them out. Please list what widgets are being used with each screen shot as well. Thanks in advance.
Beautiful widgets it what u want for clock/weather which is a payed app. Only thing I know that has sense like messaging is launcher pro which is free for the basic version. Launcher pro plus is wa worth the money tho.
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Can you post some of your screens?
Has anyone ever had any issues with Beautifyl widgets and the animations? I keep getting beautiful widgets needs to connect to the internet and download 1020kb for the forecast animations then it goes to download and doesn't download anything. Any clues anyone?
Sorry don't have access to a computer at the moment. But as far as your question I have not had that problem.
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Here is my homescreen using nebula rom 1.0.6 twin jet, themed with the gingerbread theme, icons I found somewhere on here and tweaked a bit, launcher pro dock and, of course, beautiful widgets.
My BW widget skins are myriad-clean for the clock (this will change to either 42blue or blueglownaked when theimpaler releases his new theme) and Bullet_droid for the weather.
I like the default HTC Sense clock/weather but it is so large it takes up a lot of real estate on the home screen. Is there a smaller replacement that still maintains the same look and all the functionality? I found a "Sense Analog Small Clock 4x1" in the market and its fine, but the weather has to be a zipcode entry. It wont just use your "current location" like the native HTC sense widget does. This would be a nice function but it seems to be absent in 3rd party clock & weather apps.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the Beautiful Widget allows for resizing and has multiple skins.
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think the Beautiful Widget allows for resizing and has multiple skins.
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Checked them in the market. Their clock/weather widget does support geolocation apparently. So I guess it would autoupdate to wherever you were at like HTC's native sense widget. It looks fairly large though, at least 4x2. What I really need is 4x1 like the small sense app.
Update: I just saw some 1x4 shots in the android market site so it looked like it has this size. The only other problem is its not free but I can deal with that.
Beautiful widgets is exactly what your looking for. I run it often in 4x1 and it looks great. Plus there are over 100 different clock and weather skins. Really nice app and well worth it.
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Does anyone know what widget is being used in the attached screenshot? I saw it one of the other threads and am not sure which app is that. I know for a fact that it's not the following:
Pure calendar
Agenda widget for android
Simple calendar widget?
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Nope not that either
Seems like the LauncherPro Plus Calendar Widget
EDIT: Market Link here
You'll have to purchase the unlocker though to get the widgets. There's likely to be a transparent widget theme for the Calendar widget as well. There's still some issues with the Launcher though such as the Gmail widget not displaying the feed (not sure if it's fixed as of now), etc so beware.
Thanks for the info! I knew the widget seemed very familiar. I had launcher pro on my droidx for a short period of time.
APW is a better option for all the Launcher Pro widgets. They have much more customization and are updated. LP seems like it's a dead project, even though the dev claims he is still working on the rewrite. It's been way too long for an an update and I have moved on. APW works on any launcher as well.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rdr.widgets.core&hl=en
You are right. Last update for LP came back in May. I'll check out APW. They seem to be very nice.
My only complaint with APW is the lack of themes. Lpp had some really nice ones even before the official theme system was implemented.
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Yea this looks like APW widgets with full transparency on. APW is a good widget pack. One of the best if you ask me.
What would you buy? HD Widgets or Beautiful Widgets?
HD Widgets got an update today and are on sale now. Not sure if it is a good deal.
Maybe somebody tried both?
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I have both. I only use HD Widgets because it's very polished. Beautiful Widgets allows you to install different themes for the widgets, which is awesome, but when I used it the selection was unappealing to me. I'm sure there are more themes now, though.
Never used HD Widgets, but Beautiful Widgets has a loooot of themes.
Here's my home screen widget just for reference. I'm using the full screen widget for the Galaxy Note (5x5).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ku906f53857z4wx/2012-06-07%2012.44.18.png
Found two HD Widgets videos:
Production teaser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76KFweR2Pj0
Review of the new version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghx6ENefOxY
I've had beautiful Widgets since my Droid 1, 2 years ago.
I like it, and for $3 I really got my use out of it. After getting my nexus though, the screen is so brilliant, I kind of don't want to take up half that space with a clock widget. I think I might just finally be done with clock apps, I do remember trying HD widgets way back in the day and deciding on Beautiful Widgets.
I guess for me, I say BW only because I know what I'm getting, and the themes are great. It's really easy to get away from the default HTC look.
I also have both but the new HD Widgets beta version the weather does not work.
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For my Nexus I'm using BW since it has a lot of customisation options (although I really hate how the location name disappears under the weather icon for places with long names). I have HDW as well which I use on my Transformer Prime since BW has awful scalability for large screens. I very much prefer the widget layout of HDW but I can't find a theme on it that I really like over BW.
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i too have both...BW for phone, HDW for tablet
i hadn't had HDW on my phone in ages and installed the latest 'update'...it was crashing ALL day, even without an active widget i was getting a "hd widgets has crashed" popup, but worse than that for me, the widget was only displaying in farenheit even though i'd selected celsius, which makes it totally useless gibberish
i won't be updating to the new version on my tablet
I have also bought both of them. Beautiful Widgets feels like it works better for a phone interface because the 4x2 Clock/Weather widget looks like it fits better on the screen and is highly themeable (for us who flash new themes and ROMs frequently).
I use HD Widgets for my tablet as the giant clock/weather widgets fit the screen much better than Beautiful Widgets does and the transparency and light theming works on my tablet as i don't flash with it nearly as much.
Just my thoughts
As with some posters above, I am a long-time BW owner, going back to the early days of the OG Droild. I loved it back then. Now, the look of those big clocks with overly-dramatic weather icons looks so 2009 to me.
After getting the GNex, I just couldn't devote so much homescreen space and I didn't want something that looked so "tired" to me, so I bought Make Your Clock Widget Pro. I designed a minimalistic "clock" widget and it's been in service on my GNex for months now. For me, it's perfect, and it's unique - just what I want, how I want it - nothing else.
Consider escaping the BW/HD Widgets look, and just go make your own.
Here’s a screenshot…
Thanks!!!
Make your clock is totally great!
I installed a free version and one widget even works. And this is ok for me.
Not sure if weather works. But I will check that later. Clock was a priority.
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You are welcome!
Nice design btw!
HD Widgets beta 3.0.1 latest play store update keeps crashing an constantly sending crash reports to google, chewing the fu#k out of my battery life with crash reports every 2 minutes even with widget removed.
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I use Beautiful widgets.
Which ones are worth buying/getting? I have Apex Launcher Pro and I want to get a accurate (As in has as accurate as can be location/weather forecasts for the UK), minimalistic weather app that can be used with UCCW so recommendations would be good. Any other apps I should look at? I know a lot of people use things like WidgetLocker, Beautiful Widgets etc. but they seem a little expensive.
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Which ones are worth buying/getting? I have Apex Launcher Pro and I want to get a accurate (As in has as accurate as can be location/weather forecasts for the UK), minimalistic weather app that can be used with UCCW so recommendations would be good. Any other apps I should look at? I know a lot of people use things like WidgetLocker, Beautiful Widgets etc. but they seem a little expensive.
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Eye In Sky is a good, minimalistic and configurable weather app/widget. It's also free as an ad supported version. (BTW: Beautiful Widgets is often on sale, so keep an eye out for that)
WidgetLocker is worth it's asking price IMHO, if you need/want a fully customizable lockscreen. Never looked for another one after I bought it. If you don't want to invest the money, GO Locker might be an alternative for you. It's not as configurable as WidgetLocker though.
Other widgets I use for customization are Minimalistic Text and Missed It!.
If you want to get some inspiration what can be done with these, check out mycolorscreen.com. (my screens can be found here for instance but it's mainly older stuff)
You can always wait and see if they go on a Christmas sale.
Beautiful Widgets is definitely worth the ~$2 IMO. Not very expensive for a widget that you'd use on a day to day basis.
FYI: Beautiful Widgets is currently on sale for 50% off. So now might be the time to get it
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and HD Widgets is $0.99 if you're interested in that, i prefer Beautiful widgets. but yeah
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwyLDEsIm5ldC50c2FwcHMuYXBwc2FsZXMiXQ.. is a nice app to have at this time. tells you all the deals for apps+games
minimalistic text. i use the free version and loved it. MissedIt, a launcher of your choice, Widgetlockr, uccw, and phantom music control if you don't feel like putting a million widgets on your screen/lockscreen.
i got AccuWeather when it was on sale. for me, a notification is enough since it's 1 swipe away.
mycolorscreen is an amazing place for inspiration or just copying, also a good place to learn of the wonderful customization apps.
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