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SPB Mobile Shell 3.0 - Widgets Shaing

Hi Guys,
Thought I would start a dedicated thread for sharing widgets we may develop for use with SPB MS 3.0 (now that its officially out!!!).
Here are some ideas for widgets that can be developed imo -
1. Flip Clock (like TF3D)
2. Slideshow widget
3. Media player widget (linking to other music apps such as Coreplayer)
4. Stocks widget
5. Calendar widget (linking to third party PIMs)
Please help!!!

spb ms3 widgets
Very good idea !
Hope that skinners will be at this "rendez-vous".

would be useful a widget for change activesync, mystorage, storage card connection (like wireless widget)

Can these kind of widgets actually be made? I looked at the XML and supplied widgets of SPB, and they all seem to direct to classes in the compiled program.
Perhaps i'm missing something. What I really miss is tasks on your 'lifestyle' screen. I hope it can somehow be made, but atm I don't see how.

What I like to see is an SMS viewer like in TF3D. I don't like to open the MS Inbox every time, when I have a new message.

I'd prefer a RSS widget. I don't get, why they haven't at least integrated SPB Insight...

I'd like to see a Post-it Notes type of widget. Also, it would be cool if you can change the swipe up/down function to open the launcher or contacts screen (or anything else). I have no use for the professional layout because I can basically re-create it in the lifestyle screen.

A Flexmail widget is what i would like to see

They dont have an intgration with SPD time - stop watch ??? Why not?
You can only get one day on the weather, even if you have SPD weather ?
I hate the bottom screen contacts and launcher stuff - total waste of screen space.
And why would you want to see all the available screens (bottom left buttom) ?
It looks nice, but I prefer their standalone softwear. Much more control and functionality.

I would like to have a memory indicator
anyone knows how t do it?

PauloJ5 said:
You can only get one day on the weather, even if you have SPD weather ?
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I have nothing else installed and when I click the weather icon, I get a 4-day forecast...

Thread link
This thread...though does not have any widgets....has few neat tricks for SPB 3.0
check it out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=507697

@lfe said:
A Flexmail widget is what i would like to see
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Any mail or sms widget would do for me.. ..my fellow Norwegian.

talim81 said:
What I like to see is an SMS viewer like in TF3D. I don't like to open the MS Inbox every time, when I have a new message.
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mee too. expecially cannot disable the flash light to flash when new sms come in.

PauloJ5 said:
They dont have an intgration with SPD time - stop watch ??? Why not?
You can only get one day on the weather, even if you have SPD weather ?
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Well, maybe if you tried integrating with their own suite of SPB applications, instead of whatever this SPD stuff is, it might work better?
I seem to have 4 days worth of weather forecasts perfectly fine, here...

i really would like to have a TF3D flip clock that acutally flips.
has any one found that yet??
please i've looking for a while.

Looking for a 2x1 flip clock widget

Hello,
As I'm reorganizing my main home screen (HTC Desire), I find that the original HTC 4x2 takes up too much space especially because I don't care about the weather part of it.
I do like the "flip clock" design though.
I have looked around for an alternative and have found the following solutions:
BeautifulWidget small home widget
This looks nice, especially with the right skin, but it's still a 4x1 widget and the clock itself is not centered even when hiding the weather part of it.
Is it possible at all to have the clock centered?
Digital World Clock widget
This one is a 2x1 widget without weather, which means I can center it at the top of the screen. Unfortunately the date display is bogus on a French locale phone, it does not respect the date format(day month year) and the name of the day of the week (Thursday) gets displayed as a number (5)
I have contacted the author about that, I'll see if he replies.
In the mean time, would you have any other suggestions for this?
Regards
Olivier

Hey,
You could try "Retro Clock Widget", free in the market. Has clock and date functions in separate 2x1 widgets. Not sure if it solves your date issues though.
Good luck.

Thanks, I did see that one as well but the date is not on the same widget as the time so it's not fitting quite well with what I'm looking for.
I sure looks nice though.

obones said:
Thanks, I did see that one as well but the date is not on the same widget as the time so it's not fitting quite well with what I'm looking for.
I sure looks nice though.
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Just try this, I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.filestube.com/a478962c7b2f508503e9,g/Fancy-Widget-v1-3-0.html

forelli said:
Just try this, I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.filestube.com/a478962c7b2f508503e9,g/Fancy-Widget-v1-3-0.html
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Thanks, but I could not find a way to configure it as a 2x1 widget without weather

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I use Flip Clock Large (used to be in the market, isn't any more, but you can still find the APK on the web) It's very similar to the original HTC Clock, but without the weather.

I had awesome 2x1 flip clock widget that is part of cMiui ROM, but can't find it anywhere as a standalone widget... please help.
Here is an image of it:
View attachment 1778217

Sjraar said:
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I use Flip Clock Large (used to be in the market, isn't any more, but you can still find the APK on the web) It's very similar to the original HTC Clock, but without the weather.
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I tried that one, but it doesn't flip when unlocking, to show how many minutes has passed... this is something I really liked on cMiui flip clock widget and can't find it anywhere. It's driving me nuts

This looks like MIUI flip cloc widget:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1298151&nocache=1
BUT it doesn't flip!!!
it is just a static clock widget

[Q] Hide / Remove Clock, Weather and Call history display from Home Screen

Hi,
I'm using HTC HD Mini for last couple of months now. Though I love some of the weather, clock animations, at times I feel its slowing my phone.
Does anyone knows how to hide the clock, weather and call history section from the home screen?
Can I have just simple wallpaper screen without these animated clock and call history section?
I would love to see the static wallpaper instead of these animated widgets.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
- Abhijeet

That would be awesome!!!!!!!!!

All settings->home->items and uncheck HTC Sense choose home plugins you want.

Not like that way...

There's no way to remove the clock, weather, and call history link on the homescreen.
Although i found a way to speed things up. The biggest resource hog among them is the weather app. Disable the weather tab, and do NOT update it. Let it just die off after a few days.
With no more data for weather, and the weather tab disabled, the weather animations and info on the homescreen will soon disappear. Leaving only the location written under the big clock cards. This will free up several megabytes of ram. I'm not sure exactly how many mb. But somewhere closer to 10mb. Giving your HD mini phone a boost in stability and speed.

Until Cookie's Home Tab isn't compatible with HD mini I think it won't be possible to rearange/add/remove items on HTC Sense home screen. Unfortunately Cookie Monster is not going to do it, but he allows anyone who can do it to base on his work and port it to HVGA, so we have to wait... I hope

How do I add the large clock / weather on home page ?

Sounds stupid, I loaded a dozen of roms but the one I like and I am keeping does not show the large flip clock with weather on home page.
Is it a custom widget ? Where do I find it. I dowloaded 1/2 dozen of similar from Market but none works as good as the "OEM".
I am using ocm_r1 Kernel

fancy widgets is almost as good as the stock htc sense clock/weather widget. in the pro version you can download a load of skins for clock/weather and one of them looks like original sense (it's called H7C).

Link HTC clock/weather to 3rd party weather app?

I saw similar questions in other forums, but never an answer - is it possible to link the HTC Sense clock/weather widget so that when you click on the weather portion it links to a 3rd party weather app (i.e. my-cast weather lite) instead of the HTC weather forecast?
I love the HTC widget, but prefer my-cast weather's more detailed weather forecast for seeing in-depth info. Feel silly having the HTC widget and then have to click a separate icon for detailed weather. Would love to consolidate space and have one lead to the other.
Possible?

can't find any way of doing what you want... However Beautiful Widgets does offer that, not just for weather you can have it open different apps when you tap weather icon, date icon or time icon, on they don't have to be specific to what you tap, ie if you tap the weather icon you can have it open your my-cast app or Stupid Zombies or any other app you want it to open.
before the BW haters start beating up the thread, no it's not identical to the Sense weather clock, but it is very similar and unlike the Sense weather clock you don't have to flash a theme/themed ROM to change how it looks, after paying for the app you have access to literally 100's of free themes/skins for the Clock, Weather and Battery icon (can't run battery and weather at the same time).

RavenWulf said:
can't find any way of doing what you want... However Beautiful Widgets does offer that, not just for weather you can have it open different apps when you tap weather icon, date icon or time icon, on they don't have to be specific to what you tap, ie if you tap the weather icon you can have it open your my-cast app or Stupid Zombies or any other app you want it to open.
before the BW haters start beating up the thread, no it's not identical to the Sense weather clock, but it is very similar and unlike the Sense weather clock you don't have to flash a theme/themed ROM to change how it looks, after paying for the app you have access to literally 100's of free themes/skins for the Clock, Weather and Battery icon (can't run battery and weather at the same time).
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Thanks for the reply - yeah I didn't think it'd be possible to do this with the native Sense widget, but thought I'd throw it out there to the people who know more than me. Even though I'm running Sense, I think I'll go back to BW, I bought it back when I was with my MT3G so I should still have access. Just would have preferred this funcionality with the sense widget since, although they look very similar, the HTC one is just 'cleaner' and smoother in its operation, i.e. weather animations and clock flipping. But the customizability of BW makes up for that I guess.
Thanks again!

Ok - another question. Figured I'd post it onto this thread instead of starting a new one, hopefully people will check it out...but is there any way to get the HTC weather animation (or a similar effect) WITHOUT having to use the widget? Decided to skip the widget and just keep weather temp in notification bar via my-cast weather. Only thing I'll miss is the animation, which was cool.

the only ways I have found to get the unlock animation is to have either the Sense Weather/Clock or Beautiful Widgets.
EDIT: okay while messing around I did findsomething you might be interested in. If you have BW installed, setup any of the "Home Weather" or "Super Clock" widgets, make sure you check/turn on "unlock animations", save and apply widget. after that even if your remove the widget from your homescreen it will show the unlock animation.
yes, it gets very boring waiting for UAW workers to unload your trailer.

Nice, thanks for the tip! Might be perfect. Will check it out.