I would really love a weather widget in the style of Battstatt and Tajm. There is a similar theme for Beautiful Widgets that shows a text-based representation of the current weather.
I was thinking it could have something like:
Eighty Five Degrees
Sunny
Or a forecast in a larger widget:
Today: Sunny and 85
Tomorrow: Partly Cloudy and 62
Or something like that. How difficult would it be to build something like that which uses an accurate weather source?
Should be fairly simple. Take a look at the wiktionary sample included with teh SDK. It just does a query of wiktionary.org's Word of the Day. Should be easy enough to build a similar widget that points to a weather site.
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/Wiktionary/index.html
Related
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
I'll list some, and can others list some they know if i haven't listed it yet?
Fancy Widget (pro)
Beautiful Widgets
P.S. im not just talking about apps for like time and weather, but for other useful things as well, like.. idk ... a widget that shows all your web bookmarks?
Battstatt
Clockr
Weather & Toggle Widget
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).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
I really like the style of the new Accuweather Widget on the SG2, however it just doesn't want to update itself as much as I would like it too. I do a bunch of traveling around and I used to use Beautiful Weather Widgets, which updates quite often your location and weather which I found to be very nice. But the Accuweather widget requires you to manually put in your location even though there seems to be a box for use my current location.
Anyway, is anyone having better luck with this new widget to auto update ones location and weather?
Thanks
Hi guys:, MoWeather 1.1 for Android is finally ready on Google Play. Hurry! check it out!!
Updated MoWeather represents a new way to experience the weather and temperature change!
*** 100,000 weather pictures uploaded everyday by users around the world ***
Seeing is believing. In 2014, let's forecast the weather yourself!
- Experience the weather like never before.
- Enjoy the comfort from latest accurate forecasts.
- Seal your personal/business plan better.
- Catch beautiful moments at your location.
- Share your weather discovery journal with friends.
- Make friends care the weather like you all around the world.
- Shorten the distance to your favorite cities.
Feature:
- All-in-One weather widget.
- Simplified and beautiful layout.
- Vivid animation main page background shows latest live weather.
- Enable temperature units swift between Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- Auto refresh 15-day forecasts.
- Unique real feel temperature setting.
- Share friendly functions.
- Endless weather picture stream.
- Onsite weather picture timeline.
- Easy comment and reply on picture.
- Enable following/follower status.
No matter how the weather change, rainy, sunny, cloudy, snowy, tornado, etc. MoWeather will always be with you!
MoWeather, we make a better day altogether!