A few questions on the Sense 5 Widget Lockscreen:
a) What are the criteria for a widget being available to be used on the lockscreen, as I have plenty of widgets but only a handful are available to be used on the lockscreen itself.
b) Are there any widgets out there which as well as being available to be used on the lockscreen, allow me to click individual icons of some kind which direct me to a specific app. Pretty much a widget for app shortcuts. The reason I ask for this is because if I am allowed only 1 widget to use on the lockscreen, and I want more than 4 app shortcuts (apart from my dialer, messages, camera and internet), there must be a widget which allows me to have multiple app shortcuts on it.
Sorry for being so verbose but I'm a bit groggy at the moment.
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Hey There,
i want help regarding animated weather widget and clock widget i was using beautiful widgets before but it sucks i dont like it
can please anyone tell me a cool weather and clock widget and i want to make my menu more like a 3D menu or customize the way i browse menu (All Apps)
Thanks in advance..
Hi,
I'm using 'Fancy Widget' as weather/clock widget. It has several styles and you can customize a lot of it. It also has a sense-like look if you want.
To make the menu and 'all apps' nicer you should use another launcher app. I'm now using LauncherPro (free) and it has some cool 3D animations for the app drawer. It is also fully customizable and there are lots of themes available.
I recently discovered how to make an invisible widget that has been incredibly useful in customizing my screens. For instance, my weather app is Snowstorm because I like how the widget looks. But, I like Weatherbug for functionality, weather radar, etc. So, I've got the snowstorm widget on my screen with an invisible widget overlayed and set to front so when i click on it, it sends me to Weatherbug.
This is done my creating an icon using Simple Text. The text in the icon is just a couple of spacebar taps. It saves to your gallery. Then I used Desktop VisualizeR to create a widget that is assigned to the Weatherbug app. Assign the invisible icon you created to the widget and you are ready to go. Very useful to have a visual of one app and the functionality of another. You can even create it so you just tap on a blank portion of your screen to activate whatever app or function you want. It's fun!
Good luck. :good:
Hola, OGs of the keyboard slider,
I have a few questions to ask to improve my homescreen (the black minimalist screenshot).
CM9
Apex launcher
Advanced Clock Widget
Metrostation Icon Pack
1. Which 5-day weather forecast widget is shown in the other attached screenshot? Or a similar app. One that can show vertically would be great, too.
2. What app can display message/call/email notifications as a widget? Preferably one that hides until a message/call/email is received: i.e. doesn't show "0 new messages".
3. Is it possible to have two distinct layouts for the homescreen, one for portrait and one for landscape? Rather than deal with bunched icons or icons hidden offscreen, I currently have Apex lock the homescreen to portrait, even with keyboard slide. I'm okay with this as apps aren't affected but the app drawer is and I often slide the keyboard to unlock my PIN password on the lockscreen.
4. Can I style the PIN password lockscreen in CM9? Every cool lockscreen I've seen never has the PIN pad out.
Got the OTA update yesterday, on totally stock E980 phone. Everything seems to be working, including MMS and Exchange mail.
New KK lockscreen....can I change the style of the clock? I used to have the clock along with weather. Cannot find any way to change clocks.
If I swipe along the top of the lockscreen (only to the right), I get additional screens, which I've put a few widgets on. Can I make one of them the default lockscreen? I'd prefer to have the weather app on the lockscreen (which also has a clock showing). Can't figure out a way.
At the bottom of the "swiped" lockscreens there is a large arrow. If I click on this, my battery status and "owner info" pops up. Is this arrow usable for something else? What if I wanted the owner info, or appointments, battery status, etc...to always be in the popped-up position?
Also, can multiple lockscreen widgets be placed on the same page? For example, I'd like to place the calendar (agenda) widget on the same page as the weather widget.
Can any of this be done?
Oh and BTW, I did notice that when asking "OK Google" to play any of the music I have stored on Google Play, it finds and starts it now 100% of the time.
is it possible to show widgets in the widget drawer as app style icons instead of large "widget" icons? i'd like to tidy up my widget drawer (to match the rest of my phone) but it's impossible with the different sized widget icons that hog a full page for just 6. heck, i would be perfectly happy to just list the widgets in a list, as text only, if that were possible. i'm using nova launcher and haven't found any settings that would allow me to alter the widget icons appearance. any thoughts?