I use 2 Android devices that have a "clock (digital)" widget. Although both widgets are shown as the same app version number (v1.0), they appear different when in use on the home screen. The one in use on the Samsung Galaxy Ring cellphone (Virgin Mobile) is quite nice with a completely transparent background displaying and has very pleasant lettering. The other one on the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is not quite as nice. The font is very slender and unappealing while it sits on an annoying translucent background.
OK . . . here's the question: should either of these "digital clocks" be configurable? That is, are there any settings that could alter the font style or size, color or transparency, or overall widget size??? I have looked everywhere and can find no obvious way to configure these widgets so that they are more pleasing to the eye.
Maybe I'm asking too much?
Oh . . . almost forgot; the cellphone (which has the nice version of the widget) is Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 and the Note 8.0 is running 4.2.2. Perhaps the OS version number is a factor?
Regards,
EnzoS
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Does anyone know where i can find a htc sense clock and weather (or near enough) for free? Please help :-{
Just search for a Fancy Widget with Google and you'll find it.
I shared a black version of it here. Or you can find the original white one here. But numbers dont flip like in the new sense interface, Fancy Widget is based on old sense clock.
Thank you very much :-D
Fancy Widgets has just released a new version.
http://www.anddoes.com/
http://www.appbrain.com/app/fancy-widget/com.anddoes.fancywidget
the new version doesn't look like the flip clock in htc
i have the perfect flip clock and weather of htc on my xperia x10 and samsung galaxy i paid 2 dollars for it on market its weather and toggle and the skins are h7c clock and h7c weather good luck
KLoNe1 said:
Fancy Widgets has just released a new version.
http://www.anddoes.com/
http://www.appbrain.com/app/fancy-widget/com.anddoes.fancywidget
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anybody tried and compare this with beautiful widget? They look awfully the same, so I'm not sure why they would want to develop something similiar unless there's some flip animation or similiar sort.
at least with beautiful widgets there are skinning and pop up weather animation. with fancy widget it looks just plain ..
Any cool widgets i can get for my galaxy s? And ideas? Any input welcome
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I shared a black version of it here. Or you can find the original white one here. But numbers dont flip like in the new sense interface, Fancy Widget is based on old sense clock.
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What is required to make them flip? That's kind of the whole point of having a flip clock, to enjoy the animation when the numbers change over. I downloaded the sense clock and was immediately disappointed.
we have a perfect phone with amazing screen. but... .
its well knowed to any android owener that allways the wall-paper maximum traction on the screen is leaving a few percent down to dock and his apps\symbols and a few percent up to the bar and his apps\symbols, while the background of the bar\docks stays black\glass.
back in my merry days with the WM6.5 I recall there was software that really stretched the entire wallpaper including the bar and dock, and clearly saw the apps\symbols on the dock\bar but the background of them was the Wall-paper i cosed.
it was very Beautiful and really Reflected and showed the ALL SCREEN.
needless 2 say that worked on\with any luncher !
Utilization of the screen background picture - really makes an amazing phone.
does Anyone know such a method\app that doing the same in Android and works with our phone ?
tnx
If you use a launcher like launcherpro and you download on app like Flikie Wallpapers you can stretch your wallpaper and see it through all of your screens and dock. If you select a picture do it with Flikie to get it on all the screens.
MuayThaiFighter8 said:
If you use a launcher like launcherpro and you download on app like Flikie Wallpapers you can stretch your wallpaper and see it through all of your screens and dock. If you select a picture do it with Flikie to get it on all the screens.
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tnx
but i alredy knows that.
im talking about app that can do that with all other launchers.
mine is the spb right now.
Has anyone else noticed that the look and feel of ICS software and some of the app features are pretty much ripped out of touchwiz? Which is a great compliment to Samsung.
For example...
Sideways scrolling app drawer
Panoramic camera
White background with black writing (reversed from the usual android look in apps)
Hardware key combo to take a screen capture
Customizable dock
Folders on home screen
Resizeable widgets
Music controls on lock screen and notification tray
Respond to a caller by text message
Pinch to zoom in calendar and email app
Just saying...
I'm getting mine on Tuesday so im hoping the user experience is a big enough jump from my SGS2...
AMoosa said:
Has anyone else noticed that the look and feel of ICS software and some of the app features are pretty much ripped out of touchwiz? Which is a great compliment to Samsung.
For example...
Sideways scrolling app drawer
Panoramic camera
White background with black writing (reversed from the usual android look in apps)
Hardware key combo to take a screen capture
Customizable dock
Folders on home screen
Resizeable widgets
Music controls on lock screen and notification tray
Respond to a caller by text message
Pinch to zoom in calendar and email app
Just saying...
I'm getting mine on Tuesday so im hoping the user experience is a big enough jump from my SGS2...
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Actually a lot of the new features in ICS come from Honeycomb or have been parts of custom ROMs or third-party launchers for ages.
Sideways scrolling app drawer was in Honeycomb.
White BG with black writing - actually Android apps have choices of themes, one of them is "light" which is white background with dark text. Nothing new, they're just pushing brighter, more friendly designs with ICS
Customizable dock - that's been in third-party launchers for ages
Home screen folders - Android has had folders in the launcher for ages, just not as easy to set up as they are now (New folder is an option in the "add to home screen" panel)
Resizable widgets - that was in HC as well, and in 3rd party launchers
Music controls in notification tray - that's available in Honeycomb
Moral of the story: Just because a feature is in an OEM skin doesn't mean they were the ones to come up with it
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Actually a lot of the new features in ICS come from Honeycomb or have been parts of custom ROMs or third-party launchers for ages.
Sideways scrolling app drawer was in Honeycomb.
White BG with black writing - actually Android apps have choices of themes, one of them is "light" which is white background with dark text. Nothing new, they're just pushing brighter, more friendly designs with ICS
Customizable dock - that's been in third-party launchers for ages
Home screen folders - Android has had folders in the launcher for ages, just not as easy to set up as they are now (New folder is an option in the "add to home screen" panel)
Resizable widgets - that was in HC as well, and in 3rd party launchers
Music controls in notification tray - that's available in Honeycomb
Moral of the story: Just because a feature is in an OEM skin doesn't mean they were the ones to come up with it
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Interesting. But I think you'll find that touchwiz was out on the original galaxy s much before honeycomb.
Think twice before switching from an S2, that's what I have done today and I am not sure I have done the right thing. Particularly down to the poor camera.
Iwould try to get your hands on one first if you can just to play with.
Spewy1 said:
Think twice before switching from an S2, that's what I have done today and I am not sure I have done the right thing. Particularly down to the poor camera.
Iwould try to get your hands on one first if you can just to play with.
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Oh MAN!! I've ordered one which is due to arrive on Tuesday. Maybe I'll have a play with it and flog it on ebay if I don't like it as much...
I also understand that they haven't borrowed one of the best features of Touchwiz - folders in the app drawer...
Borrowed or not, I do not like the look of TouchWiz at all, but I love Android 4.0.
I personally don't own a touchwiz device but it somehow gives me a very iphoneish impression.
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Interesting. But I think you'll find that touchwiz was out on the original galaxy s much before honeycomb.
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And LauncherPro, GO Launcher, and ADW were out *long* before TouchWiz...and had many of these features.
hotleadsingerguy said:
And LauncherPro, GO Launcher, and ADW were out *long* before TouchWiz...and had many of these features.
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Granted for many of the launcher features, but not the others...
mini apps.. multi copy clipboard.
Only thing truly cool on tw
Spewy1 said:
Think twice before switching from an S2, that's what I have done today and I am not sure I have done the right thing. Particularly down to the poor camera.
Iwould try to get your hands on one first if you can just to play with.
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+1 although its always nice to have a shiny new toy, was getting bored of the S2 after 6 months!
I been playing with Dualboot with FreeSG3 and CM10. The problem I find with any of these UI is the lack of Sense type widgets and features.
1. I have not a 1 height clock like I used for Sense
2. No Favorite Contact Widget like there is in Sense.
3. No good animated weather like Sense.
4. Ability to flip clock up and out of the way like Sense
5. No easy method to choose a screen as in Sense I press home button and it will than show me the pages and I can select one but with this I have to try to click on a small dot to change screen and than hope I'm selecting the right one as I have no thumbnail view for it.
I miss features of Sense I think the ultimate phone would be the Samsung Galaxy S3 with hybrid Sense/Touchwiz on it.. It has the memory to handle sense while the EVO LTE suffers from lack of RAM in the phone but the great background features of Touchwiz.
So anyone know any widgets or apps that can help emulate some of these features?
Hi my friends here in xda,
I'm a proud galaxy s3 owner running Omega rom latest, witch i find way better than stock, and much better than any other I've tried latest couple times... flashed LLA bootloader just for trying to discard any chance of suden death, but waiting for Omega v36 for stock kernel with exynos security patch...
Now, as I'm always looking for mods and themes for this beautifull piece of hardware , I've came accross many weather widgets and I've also being looking for an analog clock weather widget, as the one we could find on my old Htc hd2 once moded with CHT 2.0. Since we already have a digital clock on status bar, I believe that a widget with the same size as the stock one on our galaxy, but with an analog clock aligned at the upper left, would really make it nice...
Wonder if someone could help...
Tank's.