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Extended Controls Widget

UPDATED: December 29, 2010.
I have changed, because I found a better alternative:
WIDGETSOID2.x
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.jim2/
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It is much better with more customizations and more widget sizes & variations.
And it is FREE !
The dev is awesome, updated quite often as well.
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THIS IS THE ORIGINAL THREAD:
Hi,
Is anyone using "Extended Controls Widget"?
Did you find any issue with HTC Desire?
QR Code:

Thanks, problem in HTC Desire are fixed
Last Release: 3.1

Nice for the Desire supports ... but I have couple of suggestions:
1. Configurable "Brightness" control for 3 steps only and user can specify how much brightness for each step (I want to use 10% brightness for the lowest setting, 20% is too much for me).
2. Controls that when pressed will execute choosen applications. This should work like a shortcut for application. It would be awesome to have this! For example: I have an app to activate certain "profile" and I want to launch it from the Extended Control widget.
This widget has a lot more potential. Think about my suggestions above

why do these contorl widgets never come with mobile data widget?

This one has.
supasye said:
why do these contorl widgets never come with mobile data widget?
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Thanks Gogol for your suggests!! We immediately working on
@ supasye: there is the control called APN that switches the data network.

Where to download, can't find it in market?!?

great widget, I only miss more configuration for brightness (too many steps for easy use) and auto brightness support

Dammit Gogol, you find some really nice widgets

cool.. have a go at SwitchPro Widget as well...

How about:
Dazzle Configurable Switcher
http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.hermit.dazzle

Just got Switch Pro. Handy widget.
Tried to get Extended Controls but got stuck on payment authorization and failed.
The functions and UI look almost identical fwiw.
Sent from my Eris using Tapatalk

Does Extended Controls Widget support On / Off of cellular/mobile data ?
Or does it just take you to the setting page for this ?
Dazzle Configurable Switcher only take you to the setting page

^I've only found the stock widget able to do that.
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I tried both and ended up going with Extended Controls Widget.
The only things I'd like to see in a future release are:
Turn off the widget's background. SwitchPro has this and it works well with dark wallpapers
Flashlight switch to turn on LED
Also if you remove a widget and try to add it, it sometimes gets confused and tells you you need to add a widget you're not currently using. Have to reinstall to get around that.
Aside from that it's great!

yes, would love to see...
* a transparency slider option
* some way to change the settings of the widget already onscreen? (a shortcut in the applications folder or something?)
* a way to arange the order of the widgets
other than that great, i bought it

Main reason that i'll take Switchpro over anyhting else is that is has a 7 button widget iso just 5.

really love this widget!
this that I would suggest for future versions:
transparent widget
ability to toggle wireless tether on froyo
Add the ability to switch to auto with backlighting
So far great app. def. worth the 79c!
Patrick

ruleamsterdam said:
Main reason that i'll take Switchpro over anyhting else is that is has a 7 button widget iso just 5.
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Extended Controls will shove as many buttons into the widget you're building as you want to put in there. You could throw 11 buttons in there if you wanted to (and I have, for fun).

Really? Nice In the same space as 4 regular icons, right? Then they really only need to add skins indeed! ( esp. transparent )
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[LAYOUT + ICONS] CommonSense v1.3 (new icons)

Hey all! This is a theme I made to make my device both practical and stylish. I got tired of all of the minimalistic themes out there because they were so unpractical. So many people requested this that I decided to make entire thread for it
I was inspired by a screenshot I saw in the General Android Themes thread but I can't find the post anymore. I haven't made any of the icons myself so all credit goes to the artists at DeviantART The small icons I combined from icons made by chrfb and borncold. There's an about.txt inside the zip file containing all the information about the origins of the icons. The lockscreen is a combination of modified programs by Andrewtst
Feel free to share and modify! I hope you share your own modifications and icons in this thread so that we can develop this theme even further
All the required files and information can be found right here:
-- DOWNLOAD --
-- MIRROR --
Change Log:
v1.3
+ Renamed "Black" to "Grey"
+ Added three new color options: White, Black and Dark grey.
+ Added a new wallpaper
+ Added category icons in black
+ Added "Call" icon. No idea how I managed to forget it
v1.2
+ Added more coloured icons and category icons by request
Color options:
Black, white, grey, dark grey, red, green, blue, purple, neon green and orange.
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Homescreen
(no root required)
Requirements:
- Launcherpro for dockbar
- Desktop Visualizer for icons
What to do:
- Add add the big icons as size "large" desktop visualizer widget and resize them to smaller size (this improves image quality)
- Add the small icons as size "middle" and then resize them to smaller size
- Add the category icons as size 4x1
- Set the dock icon to "Froyo"
- To get the dots on the sides of the dock you just add a new shortcut and select "homescreen"
Lockscreen
Requirements:
- Rooted
- Purchased WidgetLocker
- Digital Clock Widget
- Knowledge how to use adb push
What to do:
To get the unread SMS and missed call icons install this Unread SMS count modded by Andewtst.
http://rapidshare.com/files/419799405/smswidget-Design1.apk
To get the slider mod, send a recipe of your widgetlocker purchasement to Andrewtst
and he'll send you the modded widgetlocker. You'll have to remove your old widgetlocker
and adb push the new one to your /app/system/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785081

i love you

can you please tell me from what icon pack the phone and message icons from the first screenshot are? i downloaded that pack once, but i don't have it anymore. Can't remember where i got it from

Really nice... I like it so much... Thanks for share it...
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

o0micha0o said:
can you please tell me from what icon pack the phone and message icons from the first screenshot are? i downloaded that pack once, but i don't have it anymore. Can't remember where i got it from
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The round icons are included in the modded widget, but you can download them here. I can't recall who's made them but I just happened to have them on my computer. I think they're from Win7 phones.

Jiia said:
The round icons are included in the modded widget, but you can download them here. I can't recall who's made them but I just happened to have them on my computer. I think they're from Win7 phones.
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thank you =)

Jiia said:
The round icons are included in the modded widget, but you can download them here. I can't recall who's made them but I just happened to have them on my computer. I think they're from Win7 phones.
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They are from deviantart:
http://yankoa.deviantart.com/art/Windows-Phone-7-Icons-166077852

Thanks Jiia, much appreciated.

Really cool, I had similar layout. I edited the "big" icons and removed the shadow under them so it looked cleaner.
My old layout looked like this:

Ah, that's quite similar to the one I saw I liked it but thought it had too few icons and didn't make use of the dock bar. Anyways I like that style a lot. Maybe you could share your icons and wp too so people can use them?

Thanks Jiia
I have a question about the large icon that is to be placed in the center of the screen. How can I make this big, when I add it the icon appears tiny and I cant seem to find an option to make it bigger?
Edit: I am so silly!!! I realised I needed to add this as a widget

these all are made of widgets.what if we wipe our phone before installing a custom rom? do we have make all icons etc again? i mean is there any way of backing up these?

cCeT said:
these all are made of widgets.what if we wipe our phone before installing a custom rom? do we have make all icons etc again? i mean is there any way of backing up these?
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Not that I know of. LauncherPro can't backup widget settings so I don't think there's a way.

Added 25 new icons 5 new colour options

no zip files there when I try to download?

http://koti.mbnet.fi/jgallery/android/CommonSense.zip
Does this link work?

Jiia said:
Not that I know of. LauncherPro can't backup widget settings so I don't think there's a way.
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cheers mate.phone has become wicked.

Jiia said:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/jgallery/android/CommonSense.zip
Does this link work?
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Works great, thanks.

This is what I had been searching for since the dawn of time.
But now, I've been hooked on the SenseHD
R.I.P LauncherPro for me :'(

ArtieQ said:
Really cool, I had similar layout. I edited the "big" icons and removed the shadow under them so it looked cleaner.
My old layout looked like this:
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Hi
I Pm'd you and sent you an email a few days ago - if you prefer to keep your theme to yourself thats fine but please dont be rude and at least reply

[JOURNAL] The making of: a Launcher

Today I began to make an old idea into reality: a new, lightweight launcher.
The basic idea was derived from iPhone: an easy-to-use menu, without a home screen (thus light-weight).
So basically, this won't be the favorite of the people, as it does not include widget support, or anything like that. Just a bunch of icons, and a bottom dock (what is editable of course).
After mixing the good features of the latest launchers (ADW, LauncherPro, TouchWiz, original Froyo, Donut launchers), I came to a feature list:
- Pages of icons instead of a list
- Page indicator dots (top or bottom)
- Icons get background like iOS (or like TouchWiz)
- Icons are placed based on position - new app goes to the end (not alphabetically ordered - like in TouchWiz3 Launcher, layout loaded from an XML file)
- A nice clock screen (this one is my idea - to have a clean area, where are no icons, just a clock, maybe with weather and music player, and with notifications)
- Use labels if possible (so the GMail account will have an incoming messages circle at the top, just like messaging and Phone (for missed calls, etc).
- Customization by skins - icons can be replaced with a custom theme, and this time, the app icons aren't loaded (lightweight!!!!)
- Customization by settings - select layout style (4/4 or 4/5 icon layout, page indicator position and color)
- Settings backup to SD card
After this list, I made a little mockup what shows how I imagined iLauncher:
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What you can see here:
- The basic layout
- Page indicator circles on top (first page - clock, second page (current) - icons, third page -icons)
- Incoming indicators on icons (GMail and messaging)
- Running background process indicator (Google Talk is running in the bg)
What you can't see here:
- Icon labels - it will be the usual icon label, nothing really big change
- Icon backgrounds - when the mockup was made, I did not decide whether to have them or not
- Anything else I forgot to include
Then, when the mockup was ready, I began working on the code.
As a beginning, I took a look at android-7's (Android 2.1 update 1) samples, namely the Home sample (actually, the whole current AppInfo/AppIcon class is from there). That gave a pretty nice look over the stuff, so I grabbed what I needed (the icon classes) and began working on the bottom dock.
More will come as I develop each bit of the app!
Please note:
I do NOT need help in this. This journal is merely a share of my experience what I got coding iLauncher. Any time I code a bit of it, I add here what I did, and what happened after.
If you want to help me even I told you I don't need it, you can do so by collecting tutorials, code samples on these:
- The (not so) random icon background - still haven't figured out how to add them based on icon color, etc
- The paging system (the whole page system, flipping around, needs to be done)
- Notification labels

I will test it for you.
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Hacked ADW w/ Large MIUI'ish dock

Updated to ADW latest github
I hacked up ADW launcher to have a MIUI'sih dock. It's nothing special but I kinda dig it so i figured id dump it here to share. I'm pretty sure it will only work in portrait mode because i never use landscape i didn't bother modding that source.
Thanks to Anderweb for having such a great open source project!
Thanks to Jrizzill for having such great icons!
- ADWSettings->Main Dock Style->5 Icons has been changed, to have 4 large icons as in pictures below. You must have ADWSettings->UI Settings->Dockbar checked to have swipe gesture open/close app drawer properly.
- Get icons here.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/team-d1-miui/88474-miui-themed-icons.html
- To open/close the app drawer, swipe the dock apps.
- To add a MIUI icon to the dock
1) long press, select custom shortcut
2) press pick your activity, press applications, select application
3) click the icon to the left of the "pick your activity" button, navigate to the one you want to use, click ok.
4) drag and drop it into the dock.
- Use desktop visualizer (1x1 small) for other desktop shortcuts.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/desktop-visualizer/jp.co.bii.android.app.dskvzr
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OMG this is exactly what I've been looking for. Seriously when i switched from the Incredible to the Fascinate, the one thing I really missed was MIUI and having the large dock. I've been trying to hack launcher pro but this is great! Thank you so much.

Does this need root?

Awesome!
There are only a few bugs that I have found.
- For some reason I can't seem to trash anything on the screen :O Drag to the top of the screen and nothing happens, just reappears on the bottom.
- Sometimes when hitting the home button it forgets what apps are in the dock until I open the tray and close it.
Not sure if those have to do with the version that you compiled, or ADW itself. Anyhow not trying to get down on ya, considering this is exactly what I was looking for!
Can't wait for 2.2 MIUI!

tonyb81 said:
Does this need root?
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don't believe so
For all those out there using blackhole rom's if you are using the embedded ADW then you can't install this for some reason. I had to reinstall a clean rom with TW and then install this APK.
EDIT:
Sorry for the double post

Glad you guys like it. I will try and fix/tweak a few things. Also will try to make it so that it can be installed side by side with stock ADW.
1) haven't had that happen with missing dock apps. try using the old dock implementation, that's the config i'm using? will mess around with it.
2) do you see the trash icon appear at the top of the screen? try and drag it all the way up to the top and drop it there. it works for me.
3) you don't need root, but if you are using some ROM with ADW pre-installed, just remove it from /system/app and drop this apk in there.

andmer said:
Glad you guys like it. I will try and fix/tweak a few things. Also will try to make it so that it can be installed side by side with stock ADW.
1) haven't had that happen with missing dock apps. try using the old dock implementation, that's the config i'm using? will mess around with it.
2) do you see the trash icon appear at the top of the screen? try and drag it all the way up to the top and drop it there. it works for me.
3) you don't need root, but if you are using some ROM with ADW pre-installed, just remove it from /system/app and drop this apk in there.
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Odd, how do I implement the old dock config? Also yes the trash can appears, I drag the icon up, it turns red then it reappears at the original location just does not want me to change the setup haha

hmm weird with the delete.
make sure that this is not checked.
ADW Settings -> UI Settings -> Dockbar

andmer said:
hmm weird with the delete.
make sure that this is not checked.
ADW Settings -> UI Settings -> Dockbar
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Ok, found it. Still seems to have the same issue sometimes. Once in a while only 2 icons in the tray will appear in the center, until I open the app drawer then close it. Once I do that all is good again.

i updated a new build, try that one.

How do I use these icons in adw? Step by step if possible.

updated to 1.3.1 and added some instructions.

tried using desktop virtualizer to make the other icons. It works but there small. How do I make them larger. I'm using the icons in the link you provided.
Thanks

The large icons in the dock seem a bit fuzzy.Am I the only one having this problem?
I used hd icons btw

updated to latest github commits.

"Application not installed" over and over
*Nm. Got it

Hi,
You've done a fantastic job.
But can you build a version with dock bar like the dock on mac os? It should look like this image below
cdn3.staztic.com/screenshots/199657-1.jpg
Please copy and paste, i do not have permission to post image here.

MIUI
icons in this launcher are bad, can you port MIUI ADW theme for this? becouse theme haves good icons from MIUI and can you made dock from MIUI(screen indicator, dock style). If this`ll complete, launcher`ll looks pretty good) thanks!

Hey there,
Why cannot be installed on Eclair 2.1?
* LE: I made a mistake, it's working now. Agree with with the fuzzy icons in the dock. And also, is there a way to increase the number of rows? I like the icons to have also their labels, and only this is how it will going to work. Thanks.

Can we change the dockbar??

[APPS] Useful, And Great Apps For Your Android Phone!

So, I've tried alot of apps lately.
And I've come up with the best apps that i found,
and wanted to share a nice and fast list for u, so sit back and enjoy.
Think I'll start with categorize the apps!
This might help you out to find the best apps suited for you.
Clock
- mClock
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This clock is unique! You can customize Date/Clock/Week bar,
in every way you want it to be! Fonts, colors, the transparency,
gradient, blur and shadow. you can choose between lots of combinations
for your screen 1x1,2x1,2x2,3x1,3x2,4x1,4x2,4x3,5x1 and 5x2.
Download Here
[This is to much for you? Then There is a simple solution!]
- Digital Clock Widget
This is a very simple clock, it has time and date.
You can still customize it, but in a less professional way,
change colors of the clock and date and,
choose if you want a background and the color of it.
Download Here
Lock Screen
- WidgetLocker [The best of the best!]
WidgetLocker have to be the best Lock screen app out there.
You can do so much with it, have your own widget on the lock screen,
change slider layout from Iphone, Sense Ui, Froyo and Motorola.
To top it off, it can be customized! Every slider can be edited with
a png edit program like Photoshop or Gimp. Just replace the images in
the .APK and push it over wia ADB or use Root Explorer.
NB: This is not a free app, this is a paid app.
Example Here: Clicky
Buy and Download Here
[If you do not wanna pay for the app there is an alternative,
But not that good!]
- LockBot Free
LockBot is totaly useable! It has some nice customizations and great layouts,
but i think its not that good due to the WidgetLocker App has so many more features. But this will do the work if you want a simple Iphone, Froyo Slider,
Circle Lock, X10 or even Galaxy. But i Recommend WidgetLocker.
Download Here
Folder Customization
- Apps Organizer
This app is great for folders! You can choose whatevever icon you want,
to make your homescreen awsome and great looking.
The main feature is folders, you manage what apps you want in
each groupe and what name the groupe has. Example i want an media folder,
i just Create one in the apps organizer, and choose what apps i want in
that groupe and pesto! you got it. Very easy to use and very usefull.
Download Here
- Desktop Visualizer
This is the most usefull app you can get when making your home screen
look awsome! you can choose whatever icon/image u want as an icon,
choose whatever app/action it should do. There are lots of sizes to choose,
and that fits your needs. There is unlimited what u can do with this app.
Example here: Clicky
Download Here
Launcher
When it comes to launchers, there are no god.. you simply choose what
fits you best.
- LauncherPro/Plus[Paid]
With this Launcher there are so many things u can do,
how many screens, docks, rows and lines you want.
There are a few features in LauncherPro Plus thats not in free version.
There is Resizing widgets, LauncherPro Widgets/shortcuts, and popups!
But the free version does the job! It is great and gives you a fast experience.
Choose to have a 3D app drawer or the normal app drawer,
hide or show your notification bar, you name it.
Example with customization: Clicky
Download Free Version Here
Download Paid Version Here
- ADW Launcher/EX[Paid]
This launcher is just as good as LauncherPro or Plus.
But to top it off, it is free like LauncherPro BUT you can resize in this launcher
without paying nothing for it. Its a great launcher,
it can do all the things stated in launcherpro launcher. But you have an alternative choice,
you can get a pad version "ADWLauncher EX" this one has alot of
new features and gives you a faster experience and better feel.
Download Free Version Here
Download Paid Version Here [Recommended]
Better Background Quality
- Wallpaper Set & Save
After............................................................................................................................................Before
This app just makes your wallpaper Pop out! gives it alot better quality
than the standard phone wallpaper selector. This is a MUST have to your
android app collection.
Download Here
Well thats it for now, sorry if there is any wrong words in there.
But thats just how my english works anyway.. Enjoy this thread.