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I got fed up of the htc bookmarks widget so i took it off, now i have a blankscreen! any suggestions of widgets or anything cool to put on?
On my first page i have a few apps and beautiful widgets buttons, page 2 htc agenda, homescreen, music apps then the blank page lol
i put a picture frame at the top, the htc sense compact music player at the bottom
and then links to the camera/camcorder and to music/photos on the sides
Ive been using the cubed music player and spotify, got them set up on a page..
Guess i could use a photo page.. Its so easy to access apps though you dont really need them on pages but i have put the camera app on there like you said
i've got a page with links to internet/opera/marketplace
with the news widget in a bar shape
and a google search box with voice
OK guys, I am starting an new project. I will be creating an hub similar to the HTC Hub - however it can not be so similar that is a direct copy. Please let me know in here any requests you guys have. I will continue to update this thread as I progress. The end version will be a paid version, however I will lower the price during a set period of time so that those who contribute will be able to grab a copy for 99 cents and those who do a substantial amount of help will get it free - I will code a secondary system in an update if I can not do this on the marketplace the way I want to. I will clean this post up after a couple of days and skim through the thread for features requested and make a mock-up.
Note: In order to pass certification it will be required that the back button exits the app, I can over-ride this and allow an exit through a settings panel to disable /re-enable.
Awesome... count me in to try this bad boy out!
I will move this to SW development since this is an ongoing project, once this is close to an actual product, PM me and I will move it back. IE beta.
~~Tito~~
In this hub:
1. Allow to add our own weather widget or clock
2. Don't want fancy animation like the one in HTC, very annoying. Some minor animation or transition effect will do
3. Allow to category the apps with zune UI concept. Critical feature as I don't want to keep putting all my apps in homescreen tiles or the second screen list of apps which is getting too long now. Should have option to choose to display the apps as in tiles layout or list or icon.
4. Option to put wallpaper in Hub background, just like our picture hub.
great idea !hope you will do differently than in htc
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What is the purpose of the hub going to be? and how can the rest of us developers plug into it?
I'd like to see a weather animation, if windows' hub's being pinned to the homescreen. Furthermore it would be nice, if you could implement sth that enables us to change the tile's size again if pinned to the homescreen.
Another "innovation" would be from my point of view, if the windows hub on the homescreen would open "another" fully customizable homescreen, i.e. you have your regular homescreen and in case you feel it is overloaded you reproduce your applications within the windows hub attached to the regular homescreen that opens another homescreen, very much like the folder solution implemented with iOs 4. "screw me"?
Love to get my stocks on there also.
Thanks
Marty
its great idea bro,cant wait for this,it will change history of wp7!!!!!!
Thanks for the ideas so far, keep em coming.
I would like to be able to see sports scores as part of the hub.
I can't seem to find a decent app for WP7 that handles these.
not sure about the htc hub, but in the samsung equivalent, there is a section on latest news. i dont like this as there arent much im interested in but if you could have a built in rss reader in the hub, that'd be awesome.
I'd like to see a messaging widget like the one on htc's sense for android. I'm not sure if its implementable though.
Just retrieving the messages and displaying it on a sense-like interface will do.
Im just so bored of reading messages in the wp7's plain messaging environment
A hub replacement for HTCs...Hmmm...My vote..
1. Weather (stream lined, 5-10 day forecast with good but fast images)
2. News (RSS feed?, AP news/MSNBC/CNN, to be able to customize page, local/country/subject, etc)
3. Stocks
4. Sports Scores/Stats/standings, also to be able to see all scores but, follow a team/sport, I'd love to see tons of options here
5. Custom RSS section, so you can add a few web pages that offer RSS feeds.
Sounds like a great idea I'll be following this one...
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A hub replacement for HTCs...Hmmm...My vote..
1. Weather (stream lined, 5-10 day forecast with good but fast images)
2. News (RSS feed?, AP news/MSNBC/CNN, to be able to customize page, local/country/subject, etc)
3. Stocks
4. Sports Scores/Stats/standings, also to be able to see all scores but, follow a team/sport, I'd love to see tons of options here
5. Custom RSS section, so you can add a few web pages that offer RSS feeds.
Sounds like a great idea I'll be following this one...
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DavidinCT said:
A hub replacement for HTCs...Hmmm...My vote..
1. Weather (stream lined, 5-10 day forecast with good but fast images)
2. News (RSS feed?, AP news/MSNBC/CNN, to be able to customize page, local/country/subject, etc)
3. Stocks
4. Sports Scores/Stats/standings, also to be able to see all scores but, follow a team/sport, I'd love to see tons of options here
5. Custom RSS section, so you can add a few web pages that offer RSS feeds.
Sounds like a great idea I'll be following this one...
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Totally agree.
Also,
1. A comm manager? So it's easy to toggle radio/wifi/bluetooth on and off
2. A clock like HTC sense, with weather underneath (not the gay apps section which I don't use, if I want an app I use the market place or to launch an app I just slide right and down to the app I want to launch).
With all these ideas, They should be easy to navigate around, instead of creating hyperlinks, maybe make it so each page is a slide to the right, like the metro theme, this will look much easier and be much easier to use rather than using hyperlinks!
if you need something graphic,im in,just pm me
good project! if you want a people for translating in italian , contact me
gamerr120 said:
Totally agree.
Also,
1. A comm manager? So it's easy to toggle radio/wifi/bluetooth on and off
2. A clock like HTC sense, with weather underneath (not the gay apps section which I don't use, if I want an app I use the market place or to launch an app I just slide right and down to the app I want to launch).
With all these ideas, They should be easy to navigate around, instead of creating hyperlinks, maybe make it so each page is a slide to the right, like the metro theme, this will look much easier and be much easier to use rather than using hyperlinks!
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One thing I would love... Make the "live tile" customizable by content.
For Example, during the day it could show weather based on GPS but, during a baseball game(or pick your sport), it will update with current scores on the second and a click of the tile during a game will bring you right to your sports page.
This could work the Same for a few stocks during trading hours but, one the market is closed, go back to a default of weather (an example)
Custom Content where you need it, when you need it.
I think when you click on the tile (AKA open the Hub) it should go into a Weather/Time/Wi-fi/blu-tooth settings/status... kind of a status page but, a flip will bring you to different content.
Just trying to come up with ideas for this. Hope this helps !
DavidinCT said:
A hub replacement for HTCs...Hmmm...My vote..
1. Weather (stream lined, 5-10 day forecast with good but fast images)
2. News (RSS feed?, AP news/MSNBC/CNN, to be able to customize page, local/country/subject, etc)
3. Stocks
4. Sports Scores/Stats/standings, also to be able to see all scores but, follow a team/sport, I'd love to see tons of options here
5. Custom RSS section, so you can add a few web pages that offer RSS feeds.
Sounds like a great idea I'll be following this one...
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Yes me too.
I am having the most frustrating time with my Facebook updates and I am hoping someone can give me advice.
When I use the official Facebook widget, I receive ALL of my updates. However, I HATE the official widget since it only shows one status at a time. I want a widget that shows the entire news feed and is scrollable.
I tried using Friend Stream, however 1 of my friends (my sister, specifically) does not show up. I never receive any of her status updates. To my knowledge, she is the only one I cannot see.
If I try OTHER 3rd party widgets (such as Colorize Widgets or Android Pro Widgets) they also do not show her status updates but they ALSO leave out 2-3 more friends from appearing in my newsfeed.
Everything shows up fine on my computer when I look at my news feed, and like I said all statuses show up in the official Facebook widget. I have already looked at my application permissions in my preferences and all appear to be good. I do not understand it at all! Any help?
Thanks!
Hi,
I'm one of the developers of Android Pro Widgets.
We are using Facebook's Graph API and what you see are probably bugs of this API (on Facebook's side).
Facebook for Android uses a different method for fetching data (FQL queries).
We plan on changing to this method at some point as the Graph API is really disappointing.
Awesome, thanks! Any idea the time frame on what this new technology will be implemented? It sounds like this is something that all of these 3rd party widgets (including Friendstream) uses, is that right?
The Graph API is the trivial choice when using the SDK Facebook provides , so I guess most 3rd party applications use it.
I have some tasks with higher priority in my TODO list but hopefully I'll get to it soon.
Hey guys,
I have finally decided to make the switch to Android with this phone, however I do have a question I was hoping to answer before I switch...
One of the features I missed on my Iphone was being able to turn on my phone and have the homescreen display my outlook calendar and to do list(windows phone). I have tried doing some research and some hands on the Verizon store so I know about widgets...although the ones on the droidx I played with were very small.
So my question is...can I set my homescreen to give me half the screen worth of outlook events/tasks and then move everything else to other pages? Sorry if this is a repeat/stupid question but I appreciate the help!
The calendar app has a widget which will show your calendar apps, you can sync to outlook via various means including exchange activesync for your e-mail.
You also can download a app like Jorte it has several different widgets sizes like. 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 of the screen size.
I use Launcher Pro Plus. Great widgets (calendar, agenda, facebook, tweeter, etc). I hope app will get updated for ICS
Also the CalenGoo app has tonnes of different size widgets for all your needs!
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Also the CalenGoo app has tonnes of different size widgets for all your needs!
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this looks like it will work great!
soon as I switch there will be no more excuses why I forgot to do something!
you can also install widget locker and display all of this on your lock screen (the initial screen you see when you turn the screen on)
Haha as you see there are many ways to do things on Android. +1 for Possibility.
you can do almost anything on android. super customizable! That's the beauty of Android.
Jorte can do this
There is also an app called Pure that is a highly customizable widget for your ToDo app of choice and Calendar, and looks much better IMHO. Jorte is the best calendar I've seen and that's what I use as an app, but with Pure you can skin the widget (I like highly transparent) and set all sorts of options so it looks perfect on the home screen...
So yes, the beauty of Android is you have TONS of options to do what you are looking for... Granted I haven't used an iPhone before, but I venture to guess you'll have many more options than you have now.
I really want to organize my apps into folders since I want have my phone a bit organized, but I'm really having trouble organizing my apps, so I'm just wondering what everyone else is using so I can bounce ideas off of you guys.
What I'm thinking about:
Games- Self Explanatory
Social Networks- FB, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger (maybe), G+, etc
Google Apps- G+, YT, G Maps, etc
Media- G Music, YT, Blogger, G Talk
Tools- Where's My Droid, AlarmDroid Myxer
The idea is for apps to overlap, because even though I may go to one folder for one thing, I might want another an it might be in that folder.
Also, I've been looking in that "post your homescreen" topic, and I've been trying to figure out the best way to do those cool homescreens with the text only icons and cool widgets, and I want to know what do you guys use?
I use folders setup like this:
Camera - Camera, Gallery, Instagram (if it worked), etc
Commerce - Paypal, Chase, Craigslist, Autotrader, Square, etc
Communications - Facebook, Gmail, XDA, Nasioc, Twicca, etc
Entertainment - ESPN, Pandora, Moviefone, Yelp, TWC TV, etc
Games - Games
Games 2 - More games
News/Tech - Pulse, NPR, Minus, Benchmarks, etc
Utilities - Titanium Backup, Rom Toolbox, SU, Alarm Clock, Batter Calibration, etc
I don't like for them to overlap, if I need to search for one I'd rather just go into the app drawer
in my dock using apex launcher i have:
camera: camera and barcode scanner
phone: phone and contacts
messaging: voice and messaging
browsers: chrome and stock browser
on my main home screen i have:
tools: gps test, speed test, linpack, quadrant, titanium
google: maps, gmail, play music, play movies, play store, gtalk
Saxysaxplayer said:
Also, I've been looking in that "post your homescreen" topic, and I've been trying to figure out the best way to do those cool homescreens with the text only icons and cool widgets, and I want to know what do you guys use?
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