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Just thought I'd start a thread on what the best android widgets are (paid and free). I installed the various Tattoo builds and love the HTC interface, but as of now, they are just too processor/memory intensive and they lag up the phone too much. I've now installed Myn's Warm Donut because it runs fast and so far, hasn't caused any hang ups.
So far, I've installed Home++ and it works well as a home replacement. I'm looking for a weather widget to replace the HTC weather widget, and so far have only found WeatherBug as a widget. Works well, but isn't flashy.
What are everyone's favorite Android Widgets???
I would say my number one widget when im not using hero or tattoo is "beautiful widgets". I love the animated weather and hero like weather clock. not the latest version because htc asked them nicely to change the interface because its to much like the real thing, so i use like 2.36. i think 2.5 and up are changed interface and its not near as good. it is a paid app. i also just tried home++ and didnt quite find it as appealing as open home. home++ changes android interface too much for me. no home replacement apps work with live wallpapers as of yet.
You want Weather Widget 2 Ver. 3.2...its the best I think you can find and works well with Myn's build.
PM me if you cant find it.
So farm here's what I'm running on Myn's Donut build without any problems at all:
Accuweather
Amazon
AP Mobile
Facebook (widget)
Home++ (home replacement)
NewsRob
The Weather Channel (widget)
Ultimate Stopwatch
Google Voice
Weatherbug (widget)
Smooth Calendar (widget)
wdbanks said:
You want Weather Widget 2 Ver. 3.2...its the best I think you can find and works well with Myn's build.
PM me if you cant find it.
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Thanks wdbanks - I found a version but it doesn't fit 240 x 320. Is that app only for 320 x 480 screens?
I use weather widgets 3.2 on 240x320
I just got a nexus one exactly one week ago and Im lovin it. I made the switch from win mo. I had the Touch HD and Xperia X1. Now I dont want to root the nexus because it voids warranty and there seems to be many problems users are having with it. I dont want to have no warranty if anything happens to mine.
So I would like to know, what apps should I get and what widgets. There is a very limited number of widgets on the nexus and I want to fill up the home screen. I downloaded engadget and they have a widget, I downloaded a couple of games, xda app, and the htc sense keyboard. So I hope you other nexus users can help me since Im an andoid newbie.
mets3214 said:
I just got a nexus one exactly one week ago and Im lovin it. I made the switch from win mo. I had the Touch HD and Xperia X1. Now I dont want to root the nexus because it voids warranty and there seems to be many problems users are having with it. I dont want to have no warranty if anything happens to mine.
So I would like to know, what apps should I get and what widgets. There is a very limited number of widgets on the nexus and I want to fill up the home screen. I downloaded engadget and they have a widget, I downloaded a couple of games, xda app, and the htc sense keyboard. So I hope you other nexus users can help me since Im an andoid newbie.
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What are you looking for in a widget?
I'm currently using..
Beautiful Widgets (paid)
AudioManager
DaysUntil
National Rail
Network Widget
PhotoFrame
Pure Calendar (paid)
Pure Music (paid)
nice, just downloaded. audio manager. Im looking for sense like widgets. If there was an htc desire compatable with att 3g. I wouldve got it
Hmm ok I can tell you about a couple of apps that I use often at least:
Handcent SMS - Much better than the built in messaging app imo
Dolphin Browser - I prefer it to the stock browser
3G Watchdog - Keeps track of how much you transfer over 3G, very useful
Agenda Widget - A good widget for showing upcoming appointments
RealCalc - A calculator with a "few" more options than the stock oen
Nimbuzz - Will cater to most of your IM needs
Spotify - Good for streaming music and storing it offline if it's available in your country
Doggcatcher - Great program for podcasts
Barcode Scanner -Good to have to scan in those barcode links that are used a couple of places
Battery Indicator - Gives you a number to look at in the notification bar instead of the pretty useless built in battery icon
Connectbot - SSH client
Smart Keyboard - A great keyboard with different skins and dictionaries for many languages
Documents to Go - Great office suite
Xe Currency - Keeps you up to date with conversion rates
Weather widgets - A good clock/weather widget
Games:
Don't know about that many games and I can't get the full versions of most of them since I don't have paid apps where I come from and I'm not rooted, but I can suggest a few.
Snesoid - Essential imo, play all those great SNES games on your phone and you won't need much else on the gaming side
Abduction - Jumping cows, what else do you need from a time waster?
SFCave - classic game from the early Palm devices if I'm not mistaken
Toss It - Good time waster
3d Pong - Classic flash game
Anways my tip for you is just to look around the market and test out apps, many are free and most have at least a lite version and that is the best way to find out if you like/need an app.
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nice, just downloaded. audio manager. Im looking for sense like widgets. If there was an htc desire compatable with att 3g. I wouldve got it
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I'd definitely give Beautiful Widgets a go then
fwiw, handcent sms is a great app. it totally replaced mine.
the htc keyboard is great, i have it on my rooted desire rom.
Beautiful Widgets is what your looking for if you want sense style widgets. I believe they nearly got sued for their weather clock.
I love the textsfromlastnight widget, lol, but dunno if you like that site.
i keep the facebook stock widget open.
weather/news widget is actually ok, but i use the desire weather widget.
take a look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=720676
a livewallpaper that with build-in widget.
Nice work I will try this out tonight and leave feedback.
Installed on my HTC desire and downloaded a few wallpapers and this works brilliantly, would easily shell out money for this app.
Finally have my phone where I like it with Redemption and Ive gone through the market only a million times. Chances are I over looked things and skipped others.
Basically looking for recommendations on system utilities, tools, programs, games, etc.
Battery monitor widget
Temp+CPU V2
Pew pew 2
X Construct
SetCPU (if your rom doesn't have built in OC)
Those are a few I'd recommend.
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Adfree
Call confirm
Fancy widget
Gmote
Incbits
Where's my Droid
Widget locker
Craigsnotifica
IMDB
The weather channel
There's a quick list for ya. Hope it helps.
Adfree
All Apps Organizer
Colornote
Pandora
Alarm Clock Plus
My Tracks
Pocket
Shop Savvy
Double Twist (you might perfer sense music player / widget, but I just like this one better)
TV Shows Stream
Music Junk (no longer available in market but you can pick it up elsewhere)
iheartradio
Camera ZOOM FX
Dolphin Browser Mini
Speedx 3D free
Auto Rotate Switch
Beautiful Widgets
Where's my Droid
Vibrate mode by force
Tasker
Wifi Analyzer
Wireless Tether
Soundhound
evileclipse said:
Adfree
Call confirm
Fancy widget
Gmote
Incbits
Where's my Droid
Widget locker
Craigsnotifica
IMDB
The weather channel
There's a quick list for ya. Hope it helps.
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POQbum said:
All Apps Organizer
Colornote
Pandora
Alarm Clock Plus
My Tracks
Pocket
Shop Savvy
Double Twist (you might perfer sense music player / widget, but I just like this one better)
TV Shows Stream
Music Junk (no longer available in market but you can pick it up elsewhere)
iheartradio
Camera ZOOM FX
Dolphin Browser Mini
Speedx 3D free
Auto Rotate Switch
Beautiful Widgets
Where's my Droid
Vibrate mode by force
Tasker
Wifi Analyzer
Wireless Tether
Soundhound
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Everything in bold I already have. I tried Tasker, but it would take me forever to tweak things. Thanks. Lets keep them coming.
Angry Birds & Seasons/Rio????
Birds is a must... then you'll checking Market several times a day for update cause you've beaten it already.
Amazon App Store for all the free daily apps
Black Facebook
Chandroid
Handcent
Live Profile
Not Call Log (MUST!!!!)
MissedIt!
Swype
ADW Launcher.exe
TV Guide Mobile
XDA Premium - OF COURSE
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Angry Birds & Seasons/Rio????
Birds is a must... then you'll checking Market several times a day for update cause you've beaten it already.
Amazon App Store for all the free daily apps
Black Facebook
Chandroid
Handcent
Live Profile
Not Call Log (MUST!!!!)
MissedIt!
Swype
ADW Launcher.exe
TV Guide Mobile
XDA Premium - OF COURSE
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I have both Angry Birds from the Amazon app store. Later tonight after work Ill be checking some of these out. I havent heard of a few of them.
Well I like many of the ones that have already been mentioned but here is my list:
Used daily:
minimalistic text
scrollable news widget
Jorte
facebook for android
xda
yammer
finance (google)
amazon app store (as mentioned for free apps daily)
the weather channel
ADW (installed with CM7)
ADW Notifier (great addition to ADW to put hte bubble on gmail )
Gmail
Google Voice
Other apps that I use once in a while:
Movies (flixter)
TV Guide
IMDB
Score Mobile
SyncMyPics (only when running ASOP, HTC's People app does a great job with this on its own).
My Verizon
ASTRO Browser
Google Maps/ Street view/ Navigation
Games that I have played with (I am not a gamer so others probably have better picks):
Super Dynamite fishing (because of Opening fishing this past weekend this is my top pick )
Angreybirds (all)
Doodle Jump
Majesty (probably best app of the day from amazon that I got)
world series poker
LOL so after looking through my apps I have a TON that I have never even started... I guess I would say get amazon to get the free ones but try them to see if you like them LOL
have to go back and try a bunch of these now.
SoBBie
wave launcher and circlelauncher are a couple of really nice folder type widgets.
supersobbie said:
Well I like many of the ones that have already been mentioned but here is my list:
Used daily:
minimalistic text
scrollable news widget
Jorte
facebook for android
xda
yammer
finance (google)
amazon app store (as mentioned for free apps daily)
the weather channel
ADW (installed with CM7)
ADW Notifier (great addition to ADW to put hte bubble on gmail )
Gmail
Google Voice
Other apps that I use once in a while:
Movies (flixter)
TV Guide
IMDB
Score Mobile
SyncMyPics (only when running ASOP, HTC's People app does a great job with this on its own).
My Verizon
ASTRO Browser
Google Maps/ Street view/ Navigation
Games that I have played with (I am not a gamer so others probably have better picks):
Super Dynamite fishing (because of Opening fishing this past weekend this is my top pick )
Angreybirds (all)
Doodle Jump
Majesty (probably best app of the day from amazon that I got)
world series poker
LOL so after looking through my apps I have a TON that I have never even started... I guess I would say get amazon to get the free ones but try them to see if you like them LOL
have to go back and try a bunch of these now.
SoBBie
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wave launcher and circlelauncher are a couple of really nice folder type widgets.
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Way more to go through now. Keep them coming.
Hi friends
good morning from italy
i'm tryng to download application facebook for android 1.6.0
but it says not compatible with my tab.
which kind of application you downloaded for facebook??
thanks and regards
laccio
I'm using Friend Me. I found it way better than the other one I tried... um... I can't even remember what it was called, but it sucked.
thanks....it works very good....
br
laccio
I personally preferr FriendCaster For Facebook.
It have a Default interface, Tablet Interface, widgets and it keeps getting updated all the time
hi krage...
also this app is really nice...
many thanks
br
laccio
Seesmic is the best! And it integrates Twitter too!
I use Friend Me as well, but I installed FB 1.6 without issue.
Download the APK from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142676
Email to your Gmail account. Open your Gmail app on your tab and you'll be presented with the option to install it from the App. No root necessary.
damn i was using friend caster and didnt really like the UI but i took bbeelzebub's advice and tried friend me and i prefer it much better than friend caster. thanks!
I was also using friendme and noticed that if you have friends that block 3rd party apps, you will not get thier status updates in your feed. This is not the case with the official FB (1.6) app