Hello all, I'm a software developer (VB/C#) but new to WM. I've recently bought SPB MS3 and fell in love with it instantly. Looking at the widgets currently available, am I correct in thinking creating new ones is just restricted to modding existing ones?
With this in mind I thought about how a facebook notification widget could be created (coming from a blackberry it’s the only thing I miss) I came up with the idea of:
Clone the excisting email notification
Change the picture and name of it Facebook (obviously)
Set up a dedicated email address and enable Facebook email notifications on facebook.com (this would be the only downside as it would also require the user to change their login email)
Develop a simple program which the "facebook" widget links to
The program will simply clear the email inbox and then launch the Facebook application if installed, if not then launch http://m.facebook.com
First of all, being new to SPB I’d just like to check if this is plausible or perhaps I'm missing something and there would be a simpler way to go about this?
Hello sir,
It is plausible and doable BUT there are so many great facebook applications out there like FIM that work so well when SPB is running. Yes I would love to see a facebook widget for SPB, but I really used the chat interface alot with facebook so if you can implement that it would be really good. Other than that just emails for notifications, that would be boring .
Let us know what you are thinking in more detail, and I can help you out.
thanks
Hey, think you may of misunderstood what I'm hoping to achieve. I'm not going to create a new facebook application just a simple SPB widget to show when you've got new facebook notifications, for example:
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Oh thats cool you should do that, please go for it. I will be the first one to use it
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Hey, think you may of misunderstood what I'm hoping to achieve. I'm not going to create a new facebook application just a simple SPB widget to show when you've got new facebook notifications, for example:
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WOOOOW, just the widget I was looking for, can u send it to me??
Are you done with developing this widget??
Yeah its a great idea! Did you end up making this?
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can some one please tell me how i can put contacts pic on today screen,i seen it done with the treo 700 with windows 5.0.maybe some one can tell me of some software to do this,thanks
i use vjays phone tools and set shortcut with custom icon to my today screen launcher.
I also use VJPhoneTools on my Today launcher:
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But there is a commercial app called MyPhoneShortcuts which does something similiar ($9.49).
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Hi vjay,
when you gonna let us know how get out today screens looking this cool?
Bit busy
Holy sh*t VJ! That's some busy Today screen.
Davebo: Yeah, I'm still not happy about the spare bit of space in the middle (it's actually a plugin called VJTodaySpacer). Will have to put something ridiculous in there too! This plugin, VJEphemeris, is likely to substantially change shape as soon as I get a minute to re-address some of it. With my R&D on VJVolubilis etc, I want to build in one touch wifi/ir/bluetooth control etc, and some other stuff.
The screen looks busy but I find it quite easy on the eye (although I dislike analog clocks. I only did it to see how to do it..I think I'll remove it later)
I only have one screen, no virtual pages etc (yet!). The Quote of the day thing is funny, it auto sizes according to the size of the quote. So you get some long ones that autosize to like 3pixels high. Looks absurd
Has anyone gotten around to ripping the treo 700w rom yet? I'd like to have a look at their contacts dialer.
V
Wisbar Advanced Desktop will also let you put a shortcut to a phone number. Then I use vijay's tool for email and SMS.
vijay555 said:
I also use VJPhoneTools on my Today launcher:
But there is a commercial app called MyPhoneShortcuts which does something similiar ($9.49).
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Hi, can i ask what soft is adding icons to your taskbar on top. Thx a lot.
Alknaion - phone alarm, skin available here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=27331&highlight=toggletoday
The fullscreen technique is not entirely compatible with WM5 yet. I've not had enough time to get it out yet. Chakra will tell you all about it.
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I recently got a Cingular 8525 and really want the threaded features that the Palm application seems to provide. I've looked around a little bit and found nothing compelling for free or for sale. Everything I've seen so far is bloated (.NET), buggy, or ugly. No offense intended.
I'm proficient in C++ and have written some PPC 2003 applications in the past so I'm going to roll my own program in my free time.
These may not all be possible but my goals for the first release are:
Plays nice with Pocket Outlook (messages and their state (new, read appear in both places)
Integration with Notifications (display message and launch application in the usual manner upon receipt of a message)
Integration with Contacts application
Proof of concept design (SMS only, minimalist interface)
I'll then post it and the source code and see what additions and visual enhancements poeple want most.
First:
All I've seen of the Palm application are some screenshots on engadget. Would someone with the Palm application be willing to send me a series of detailed screen shots showcasing their favorite UI features?
I can tell when a UI is done well and when an application looks good, but I'm no good at coming up with stuff myself.
I only ask about UI features now to help me architect things in a way to make help me more easily implement features people want later.
Second:
Are any developers out there able to point me in the right direction for the Pocket Outlook and Contacts integration stuff? I'm currently reading a ton of documentation searching for this and a pointer might speed things up considerably.
Finally:
If there's already an open project doing the same thing I'd rather improve that than make my own. Does anyone know of one?
the official palm messaging app has been extracted and ppl have been working on getting it to play nice with most wm5 devices. check out:
http://www.ppcgeeks.com/palm-threaded-sms-program-for-wm5-beta-4-update-11-21-t978.html
This is where all the action's going on. you can get a copy of the app by PM ing the ppl there. It works very well with the TyTN and interfaces very nicely.
anyone have any more screenshots of the palm messager? I'ld like to see it before i take the plunger
Take the plunger, lol...
Found these on another site. Remember tho, Palm has asked us not to distribute the app. Please respect their authority
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http://gadgetsonthego.net/2006/10/palms-threaded-sms-app-for-all.html
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Hey guys,
over the last few days I've gotten so annoyed that I can't use my phone (Vario II) with only one hand so I decided to do something about it. Therefore I started to go nuts in Photoshop and Visual Studio and have so far managed to get this far:
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The buttons work and the time is correct but I haven't done the appointments bit yet (any hints on how to do this in VB.net?). If anyone is interested I might release this when I get everything to work, for example the paths to the apps are currently hardcoded, I want OneHand to load them from a xml-file so they can easily be changed later on.
The icons are Crystal Clear btw, included in most Linux distros and released under the LGPL license so they are free to distribute.
Any ideas/suggestions?
EDIT: Oh, and the idea is to add submenus with large icons etc to some buttons such as messaging, settings, web, games, music. Eg so you tap Messaging, then you can chose to write a new text/mms/email and check the inbox of each. Sort of like Spb Mobile Shell but hopefully a bit more configurable..
It is very nice. Something to different to look at that is not aye-Fone-ish.
Although I like the appointment part very much, probably you might not want to go on the appointment section first, as it seems for most people it is not a priority (for me, I use Pocket Breeze, for Task+App up to 7 days ahead). From what it seems, others are looking for things like .. battery, signal strength, number of missed call/sms/voice-mail. You may want to check the ayeFone launcher for users comments as well as methods they used to get into some of the inforamtion.
For other ideas, try looking at the 'Prada' phone interface. Do a search at YouTube to see how the Prada phone interface behave.
For much interesting interface, try YouTubing for 'Neonode' as well.
The Prada phone interface looks very inteesting. Might try to emulate some of those functions. Currently I find the Windows Mobile interface to be pretty much unusable for a phone. Everything is way too small and cluttered. Ill fire up Photoshop and see what I can come up with
BTW, almost forgot about this. Take a look at this program "rlToday". Go to its official website, look at all the possible 'skin' people are using. From what it seems, it can produce the interface you've shown above (big buttons to launch apps) and clock (without the appointment part) BUT, it also ables to show how many missed call, SMS, etc.
Thought you might want to know this to avoid making duplicated efforts. Happy coding.
Hi all,
I created a small tool that wraps the Outlook tasks in a finger friendly UI.
I'm using tasks a lot, and using the 'SpoonDo!' I can see them in categories, sorted by their due dates.
The navigation between categories is simple and on top of that, there's a special fictive category with all the urgent tasks.
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Let me know what you think!
Download CAB
More information in the Mobile Spoon blog.
Enjoy!
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If phones were super heroes - how would they look like?
- Iron Man
- Hulk
- Silver Surfer
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Seems nive and useful! I'll try it!
Thanks gil.
EDIT: The download link in the page you reported points to SpoonXMLEditor.
EDIT: I tried the download image and it works.
Marshall
this is very nice and i like it ! although my ThumbCal has a fingerfriendly taskmanagment and im not sure if i need another one.
Any chance of changing language, maybe with a txt-file ?
Thanks.
I guess I can make it localizable.
There's a list of improvements I would like to perform, I will include it as well.
Was unusable...
Just tried to install it on my Diamond....
I have around 250 tasks, it took over a minute just to get into the program...
Wow!
Wow! Such a cool app! Really finger-friendly and a very nice replacement for the Outlook Mobile Tasks... Thx!
Yet I have one question:
Is there a way to edit the categories?
When creating a new task it is possible to create a new category as well but deleting categories seems to be impossible...!
Is there a way to do that?
And then I figured out that if you use commas "," in the category name the category will be split into two (or more) categories in Outlook where the the first name is the part left of the comma and the second name is the part right of the comma. A little bug?
Looks like Sprint updated their page showing they released Froyo today? Version 3.26.651.3 Date released 7/30/2010 Description of enhancements/fixes
This update offers:
- Ability to share applications
- Display events and birthdays from Facebook on Calendar
- Use camera LED as flashlight
- New user interface for the FM radio
- Add unknown users in Facebook as friends in Friend Stream
- Photo Gallery supports Facebook comments function
- Send contact as vCard using SMS
- Addition of MMS slideshow editor
- New pre-loaded widgets including Calculator, FM radio, Message list view, Profile settings and Ringtone settings
- Camcorder can use camera flash so video can be shot at night or in low light
- Flash 10.1 support
- Numeric PIN and alpha-numeric passwords to unlock screen
- Search widget and search bar able to switch to search in different types (web, specific application, or all)
- Adjustable alarm volume
- Android Market widget allows installation of applications on SD card
http://support.sprint.com/support/a...e-wh164052-20100527-115429?&INTNAV=SU:DP:HDIA
........and another one.......
nb4 another one bites the dust...
trainwreck
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lol thts a funny avatar hahaha
Minjin said:
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hi everyone,
you just made my day. LOL.......
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This thread is now about how awesome this gif is.
Why would sprint Post this up that it is AVAILABLE when it's CLEARLY NOT? Now their servers are going to get overloaded with REquests for the software when it is not even available for download yet. It's irritating..
Great news folks! I found my flux capacitor!!
man this is getting out of hand... one after another
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man this is getting out of hand... one after another
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