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[Q] s5 AccuWeather widget transparency on aftermarket launchers

Is it to edit the scripting of the s5 AccuWeather widget to enable the transparency adjustment on third party launchers? As it is it will only let you adjust the transparency on stock s4 and s5 touchy wiz launchers.

How to get android l navbar (no root)

HOW TO GET ANDROID L NAVIGATION BAR BY NOT ROOTING THE DEVICE.
Hi,I am Rigo Golder,I think you know me for the ANDROID L Status bar for nonroot devices.Now,I have made an another ZOOPER widget template for how to get the android l navbar.
As we know,there is only a xposed module available to get the L Navigation bar,but there are another users who dont have xposed framework like me.So,I have made this.
THINGS NEEDED:-
A ANDROID PHONE RUNNING 4.0+.
NOVA LAUNCHER BETA 3.0.2.
ZOOPER PRO 2.4.4 .
MY THREAD .
LETS START:-[\FONT]
Open Nova launcher.
Add a zooper 1x1 widget.
Open Nova settings and set dock pages to 3.
Remove the AppDrawer shortkuts from the 2 blank dock pages.
Move the Zooper Widget to the dock.
Resize it to the width of the screen.
Repeat the 2nd,4th and 5th Steps again to the another blank Dock.
Open settings of any of the dock widgets.
Select Layout and add a bitmap.
Select my bitmap.
Scale it to the size you want.
Move it to the bottom.
Save the layout.
Apply this to all of the dock widgets.
Now,slide to the dock Pages and you will see the Navbar.
YIPPEE! YOU HAVE THE ANDROID L NAVBAR.
IF I HAVE HELPED YOU,PLEASE HIT THANKS BUTTON.
Thank You,
Rigo

Solution: Stock weather widget using NOVA or other launchers

Just a simple way to reproduce the stock weather clock widget in another launcher
including the click action to go in the new stock accuweather app
I tested in NOVA and it works
Basically you need
1) XWidget (download the theme s6)
2) desktop visualizer
3) an image viewer able to create a transparent icon
The procedure is simple
A) Create a transparent icon and save it (the size does not matter)
B) using xwidget create the widget reproducing the stock one (for example size 4x2)
C) create another widget (same size 4x2 again) using desktop visualizer selecting as icon the transparent and as action (using the option others) the shortcut connecting as NOVA stock weather activity
I suggest to have no label, touch effect as NONE and vibration selected as SYSTEM
D) in nova settings----> desktop---> advanced select to permit the overlap
E) overlap the second widget to the first and set bring to front
in this way you will have the widget looking as the stock (thanks to xwidget) and behaving as the stock (thanks to desktop visualizer)

Thanks. I did something very similar with apex launcher. How did you get to the stock S6 accuweather app from Desktop VisualizeR? Was it an option to select when you built the transparent widget overlay?

jeff_roey said:
Thanks. I did something very similar with apex launcher. How did you get to the stock S6 accuweather app from Desktop VisualizeR? Was it an option to select when you built the transparent widget overlay?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You create a desktop visualizer widget
As icon you select the transparent
As action you select 'others'
then (in Nova but I believe there is a similar option also in Apex) 'activities'
then you look for the activities related to 'weather' ... the first is the good one
Leave the label field empty
Transparent background
None as touch effect
System as Vibration
Then press OK
Finally overlap the desktop visualizer widget to the xwidget and resize it properly

Little cool feature of touchwiz, clock icon

Clock icon on new touchwiz drawer now shows actual clock. It was a static icon on my Galaxy S5.
I kinda like it.

check also the S Planner icon

I think this is launcher and theme dependent. It is not working on nova launcher and only works on the default theme.

Use bigger icons home screen stock KK launcher

Is there a tweak to have 4x4 grid icons in home screen bigger than stock 5x5 - like the size you have in the app drawer when selecting big icons (4x5 grid)
Stock KK launcher, rooted