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Weather/News Widget

What's your favorite? I was using "Android Apps' Weather Widget Forecast", but I do like the detail of the stock app.
I have seen some nice ones in pictures of the N1 so what's all out there that seems to work for you? I'm not very entertained by FB widgets.

My stock weather doesn't work anymore. Sliding the time doesn't update the forecast. Thinking this is a data service issue cost I changed roms and no fix. New Zealand.

Beautiful weather widgets home widget has got my vote.

Macmee said:
Beautiful weather widgets home widget has got my vote.
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Weatherbug's free once isn't bad, you have the ads that run, but they have a large and small version. I use the large on on it's own screen. Plus, it has plethora of cities to choose from/locations compared to the stock one.

Macmee said:
Beautiful weather widgets home widget has got my vote.
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Pretty neat. They have the one very similar to the one I was using before but I REALLY like the one that is sort of a mix between the stock app and that.
Going to give it a try. Thanks!

techlogik said:
Weatherbug's free once isn't bad, you have the ads that run, but they have a large and small version. I use the large on on it's own screen. Plus, it has plethora of cities to choose from/locations compared to the stock one.
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+1 very cool detailed weather information!

Weather App For Dell Streak?

I noticed there is no weather app included with the streak.
Where can I get the EXACT same or even better weather app like on the HTC HD2 or the HTC Desire?
I looked yesterday in the marketplace for weather apps and there was nothing at all, just skins or different icons...

kanej2006 said:
I noticed there is no weather app included with the streak.
Where can I get the EXACT same or even better weather app like on the HTC HD2 or the HTC Desire?
I looked yesterday in the marketplace for weather apps and there was nothing at all, just skins or different icons...
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Fancy widget will do the job but i use weather and toggle widget

I found quite a good one that's easy to use and is accurate.
It's called AccuWeather.

lufc said:
Fancy widget will do the job but i use weather and toggle widget
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Hi
I use the weather and toggle as well , do you know how to get weather to be displayed under the clock? on my screen is on the right side of the widget and it looks like it's squeezed. weird... I wonder if there is any solution for it

marciu said:
Hi
I use the weather and toggle as well , do you know how to get weather to be displayed under the clock? on my screen is on the right side of the widget and it looks like it's squeezed. weird... I wonder if there is any solution for it
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I think thier are skins out in the market that will change it but i have not looked into it yet

I did try some of them but no matter which skin I use it doesn't look great as it should, maybe its not compatible with streak?

marciu said:
I did try some of them but no matter which skin I use it doesn't look great as it should, maybe its not compatible with streak?
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Same here. The numbers of the clock arent displayed properly seither, but shifted to the right in every skin ive used this far... has anyone found a solution for that yet?
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Chirurg said:
Same here. The numbers of the clock arent displayed properly seither, but shifted to the right in every skin ive used this far... has anyone found a solution for that yet?
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I found a MUCH better program that worked for me!
It's called beautiful widgets. It's amazing and much better than the stock ones for the htc devices.
It's graphically much better and is much more accurate, try it out. You even get to change the look of your clock and can even download hundreds of others.

kanej2006 said:
I found a MUCH better program that worked for me!
It's called beautiful widgets. It's amazing and much better than the stock ones for the htc devices.
It's graphically much better and is much more accurate, try it out. You even get to change the look of your clock and can even download hundreds of others.
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That doesn't work for me neither. It's just not displayed correctly...

I'm using beautiful widgets. Awesome weather program for our streaks! When you tap the widget, it fills the entire screen with a gorgeous weather animation that encompasses the entire screen. Well worth the $2 Thanks for the tip kanej!

[THEME] Honeycomb Theme

I looked around and basically just couldn't find a good honeycomb theme anywhere from what I saw so I decided to take matters into my own hands...I do like honeybread for CM7...but it was just not exactly what I was looking for. So I'm running on the ADW Launcher EX so anyone can have the exact same setup with no problems at all. The Apps+ icon in the top right I made with the SiMi Folder widget with a custom pic icon...the clock in the bottom right is the One More Clock widget from the market. My messenger/calendar/gmail widgets are all from the Pure Messenger and Pure Calendar widgets from the market. The bottom left icon I made with desktop visualizer and just have it linked to my current browser. The analog clock is obviously the Honeycomb clock FREE from the market. If you go into the ADW settings you just change the screen transition effect to Effect 1 to get the nice honeycomb like scrolling effect. I have gestures setup so when you swipe up on the home screen it pulls up the app drawer and if you swipe down it pulls down the notification bar...this way I can still use them w/o it ruining the honeycomb look. I also added the circle batter widget into the mix in the bottom left. My home screen is setup for constant landscape orientation and 10 wide by 7 high icon space...this was made this way just to make the icons and stuff where I wanted them too. You can't really use all of this space because the widgets overlap and it just makes it a pain so I don't recommend it. The other thing you have to do is download the free honeycomb theme on the market for adw...this is just to get the google widget that I am using. Also you'll want to download the honeycomb wallpapers app from the market...this is where I got my wallpaper from cuz it just looks the best in landscape...the one that comes with the theme just isn't that good if you ask me...both apps are made by the same developer. Anyways...here are some pics...I'm running this on my OG Droid with the MIUI ROM on it...hope you all enjoy. Just click on the pictures to look at them bigger and get a better idea of how it looks...I added them to this originally with them already full but the preview was cutting off the right side of the pictures and I just didn't want to chance it...please tell me what you think.
Here is a list of all of the Apps/Widgets that were used:
ADWLauncher EX by AnderWeb - $3.18
Honeycomb ADW Theme by GFX Android - FREE
Honeycomb Wallpapers by GFX Android - FREE
Circle Battery Widget by Cedric Depoortere - FREE
One More Clock Collection Free by Xaffron Software - FREE
Honeycomb Clock FREE by juliojs - FREE
SiMi Folder Widget by hateman - FREE
Pure Calendar widget (agenda) by Francois DESLANDES - $2.06
Pure messenger widget by Francois DESLANDES - $2.06
Desktop VisualizeR by Bii, Inc. - FREE
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Looks good.
So it's a collection of various free and pay items that we can get mesh together on any rom I imagine?
Maybe you can link to all the stuff...

zeppelinrox said:
Looks good.
So it's a collection of various free and pay items that we can get mesh together on any rom I imagine?
Maybe you can link to all the stuff...
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yes exactly....sorry for how messy it all was...lol...i added a list of all of the apps..their developer...and how much they cost...i can't add links cuz i don't have enough posts...all you have to do is find the right sizing of all of the widgets...most of them i have set to 1x1
I also went ahead and added the 2 custom icons that i made for this...you can use them if you want or pull others from the net

Wow!! U inspire me.....nice theme!
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vesparados150 said:
Wow!! U inspire me.....nice theme!
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Thank you very much the good thing is this is just really a collection of apps that i've brought together...so any android device can have this exact same setup

How can i get my screen in constant landscape orientation? Is this ADW specific?

m0jo said:
How can i get my screen in constant landscape orientation? Is this ADW specific?
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yeah it's a setting in ADW...i'm not sure what other launchers options are though...it's possible other launchers let you do this as well

Edit: my bad, delete the post :O

looks nice ^^ i will try it

warlock464 said:
looks nice ^^ i will try it
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thank you...hopefully it's close enough to actual honeycomb for everyone

muy buenos

chopitol said:
muy buenos
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thank you ^^

looks really good. Should try it once i have the time

Very nice! Thanks for the details as I will try this..

uptheironsrafi said:
looks really good. Should try it once i have the time
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white2kss said:
Very nice! Thanks for the details as I will try this..
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glad to hear it

The 3rd image reminds me of the Desktop Cube in Compiz Fusion on Linux distros.

Ima Goodlady said:
The 3rd image reminds me of the Desktop Cube in Compiz Fusion on Linux distros.
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lol...i've never seen this before

Ima Goodlady said:
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ah yeah it does kinda remind me of that...just inside out ^^

Woah. I need that for the Nook Color! Nice Cube.
Anyone see the movie "Cube"....crazy, now i have to find that and watch it.....
Valdrien said:
ah yeah it does kinda remind me of that...just inside out ^^
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[Q] iPhone skin

Hey guys,
Can anyone tell me if there is a good iPhone skin for the Xperia X8?
I love the iPhone's OS and would love the look on the Android system.
Thanks for any help.

there exists an homescreen app which looks a bit like the apple iphone menu:
iHome:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nd.android.ihome

Good iPhone skin huh? Have you ever try iDroid?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151816
here it is.

I'm making an Iphone theme for CM7 right now. Hopefully I will release it. I just need some help about technical stuff.

thanks guys, i've had a look at i home and it seems to force close, and the iDroid seems to run slow. thanks though.

Dude, try GingerDx by doixanh! it works like a charm.
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If you don´t like android, Why you have one?

megagas22 said:
If you don´t like android, Why you have one?
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i love android, i prefer it over apple products, but the interface on apple products is something i like a lot, it's very minimalist and the android interface can become cluttered.

Killjoy2017 said:
i love android, i prefer it over apple products, but the interface on apple products is something i like a lot, it's very minimalist and the android interface can become cluttered.
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You can make it by your self... all you have to do is download some iphonish icons for apps you use, than make it for launcher pro theme.. cuz LP doesn't support chaging icons on home screens...
http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7754 tutorial is here and it's not so hard... you may learn something on the way
Than download dock background place your icons on it
Than just swipe left and right for your apps, no need to go to app drawer.
Ofc, you can change system theme too...to get even more iphonish look..
That's what I did... and it really looks nice... Not perfect but nice

thanks for the info! i'm trying this as we speak!

Orrrr even better: download some MIUI theme for LP and place the icons on homescreens
Download some icons for dock and here you go

Dare-Devil Inside said:
Orrrr even better: download some MIUI theme for LP and place the icons on homescreens
Download some icons for dock and here you go
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and you've lost me, sorry i'm relatively new to the android modding front.

Killjoy2017 said:
and you've lost me, sorry i'm relatively new to the android modding front.
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I didn't saw any Iphone look theme for X8, so you can go to the market and download a theme for your launcher..
If you want "NO APPDRAWER" -- just put icons of your apps to your homescreen
You can easily customize dock by replacing dockbackground
Simple as that.
You can do whatever you want with android... even if you're noob.

Try ADW, you can download icon packs and change all your icons on homescreens and also have custom docks.
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corsav6 said:
Try ADW, you can download icon packs and change all your icons on homescreens and also have custom docks.
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But ADW is so sluggish :/

Dare-Devil Inside said:
But ADW is so sluggish :/
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and use MUCH RAM

Level up turned Beautiful Widgets into Ugly Widgets? Any alternatives?

Hey all,
So seeing as level up have ruined beautiful widgets, does anyone know of any good alternatives?
Most if not all of the clocks and weather themes I used are gone, and the clocks are low rez, lose time,
and the Home weather widget is gone. The weather part of the app is ugly and poorly designed now too.
So i'm trying to find some clock widgets to replace it as I am furious they took an app I loved and replaced it with
an abomination lol.
Cheers.

I actually prefer the new version of BW. Using the HTC One X theme found on the theme market
But I see that HD Widgets is pretty up there in popularity. Not a fan of it though.

zephiK said:
I actually prefer the new version of BW. Using the HTC One X theme found on the theme market
But I see that HD Widgets is pretty up there in popularity. Not a fan of it though.
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Thanks I will take a look. More than anything I need one that keeps time, which this one it seems still doesn't
I am annoyed because almost all the themes left for the clocks are exactly the same, all the home weather one's I liked, unless i'm not looking properly like angry birds, are gone, and the app is now slow and laggy.
Guess it's all down to personal preference but I just wish they would offer the old version.

zephiK said:
I actually prefer the new version of BW. Using the HTC One X theme found on the theme market
But I see that HD Widgets is pretty up there in popularity. Not a fan of it though.
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HD Widgets looks excellent I might have to give it a go. Although I'm reluctant to give another Dev my cash, they
are editors choice on the play market, and I guess I could backup the .apk in case it is updated in future
Cheers.

biffsmash said:
HD Widgets looks excellent I might have to give it a go. Although I'm reluctant to give another Dev my cash, they
are editors choice on the play market, and I guess I could backup the .apk in case it is updated in future
Cheers.
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Hit the thanks button if I helped I bought BW when it was on sale so I'm not too crazed about it, idk I like the improvement of BW 5.0 doesnt feel laggy at all, especially not on the N4.

I have both HD Widgets and Beautiful Widgets. There are a lot more style choices in HD Widgets. HD Widgets also allows you to customize the look of the widget more than BW.

kgeissler said:
I have both HD Widgets and Beautiful Widgets. There are a lot more style choices in HD Widgets. HD Widgets also allows you to customize the look of the widget more than BW.
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I used The 4x1 Weather widget in Beautiful widgets with the SimpleSolid skin. But when the 5.0 update came, it made the icons in the widget bigger and due to that they don't fit into the 4x1 space properly anymore. Parts of the images get cut off because they extend outside the widget boundaries.
I had to switch to another skin that uses much smaller icons but I really liked the SimpleSolid skin and will probably explore alternative widget options.

I have both and I prefer HD widgets because I don't have to search for widget themes as you can edit the widgets through the app and HD widgets has switches that I use a lot.
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